Luke 11:37-53

As he was speaking, a Pharisee  asked him to dine with him. So he went in and reclined at the table. When the Pharisee saw this, he was amazed that he did not first perform the ritual washing  , before dinner.  But the Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed   and evil.   Fools!   Didn’t he who made the outside make the inside too? But give from what is within to the poor,   , and then everything is clean   for you. “But woe   to you Pharisees! You give a tenth   , of mint, rue, and every kind of herb, and you bypass   justice   and love for God.   , These things you should have done without neglecting the others. “Woe to you Pharisees! You love the front seat   in the synagogues   and greetings in the marketplaces. “Woe to you!   You are like unmarked graves;   the people who walk over them don’t know it.” One of the experts in the law  answered him, “Teacher, when you say these things you insult us too.” Then he said, “Woe also to you experts in the law! You load people with burdens   that are hard to carry, and yet you yourselves don’t touch these burdens with one of your fingers.   “Woe to you! You build tombs   for the prophets,   and your fathers killed   them. Therefore, you are witnesses   that you approve   , the deeds of your fathers, for they killed them, and you build their monuments.   Because of this, the wisdom of God   said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles,   and some of them they will kill and persecute,’   so that this generation   may be held responsible for the blood of all the prophets shed since the foundation of the world   , #— # from the blood of Abel   to the blood of Zechariah,   who perished between the altar and the sanctuary. “Yes, I tell you, this generation will be held responsible.   “Woe to you experts in the law! You have taken away the key to knowledge.   You didn’t go in yourselves, and you hindered   those who were trying to go in.” When he left there,  the scribes and the Pharisees began to oppose  him fiercely and to cross-examine him about many things