Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of impurity.“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men’s bones and of all uncleanness.Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.
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… and your students are misbehaving, you should start with whoa to you students. It's kind of like a Gandalf thing anyway. So whoa to you teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You clean the outside of the cup and dish. And now he's related to talking about something we can all relate to. You got your coffee mug. You know, you walk over to the sink. You don't clean the outside. You clean the inside. Yeah, not a trick question. You clean the outside of the cup and dish. In other words, he says, you look good on the outside. You hypocrites because, but on the inside, you are full of greed and self-indulgence. What's going on on the inside, he's saying to them, does not match what we see on the outside. What's on the inside doesn't match your performance. And this is Jesus' way of saying, gentlemen, I see right through you. And then he commands, this was so offensive to them. He gives the purveyors of the commandments a command. I mean, these were the people who taught the commandments and Jesus gives them a command. He looks at them and he says, clean the inside of the cup and dish and then the outside will also be clean. In other words, you're going about it all wrong. You look good on the outside, but on the inside, you are not clean. You need to focus on what's going on on the inside because you've got things out of order. …
… woes. Jesus said, now watch out for these Pseudo-PROPHETS. Then he said in Matthew chapter 23, VERSES 27 AND following, woe unto you scribes, Pharisees, hypocrites, hypocrites, play actors, for you are like unto whited sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones and of all uncleanness. Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. Jesus reserved his most severe language for the religious leaders of his time. The Pharisees, what was a Pharisee like? Well, he would read the scriptures. He would worship. He would attend the services. He would bring a tide. He was separated from the world. He tried to win others to his religion, but it was all outward. He did not know the Lord. And God, the Lord Jesus had the most excoriating, vituperative language for these people. And yet on the other hand, when Jesus would find A sinner, caught in sin, in the web of sin, Jesus was the most compassionate, the woman taken at the, at an adultery. How compassionate was the Lord Jesus. When others said stoner, Jesus said forgiver. There was a tax collector named zachaeus. …
Sometimes men’s sloth and idleness clash with their other lusts, with their pride, their covetousness, and sensuality. These lusts draw them one way to obtain much of the world, in order to pamper and gratify them; but their slothfulness draws another, or rather holds them and binds their hands from obtaining these things. IV. The outward show of wicked men disagrees with their hearts. They very often make an appearance that is exceedingly different and contrary to what they really are inwardly. They have the clothing of sheep, but the nature of wolves. Matt. vii. 15. They are like whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men s bones, and of all uncleanness. They make a show as though they believed the truth of the gospel, and believed that God was an infinitely great and an infinitely excellent being; they make a show of great respect to God, a show of reverence and love, when indeed they have no such thing in their hearts, but the contrary. The outward show they make, which is at war with their hearts, consists either in their words, or in their behaviour. …