"Woe to YOU , Congregation Elders, hypocrites! because YOU shut up the kingdom of the heavens before men; for YOU yourselves do not go in, neither do YOU permit those on their way in to go in. "
" Woe to YOU , Congregation Elders , hypocrites! because YOU traverse sea and dry land to make one proselyte, and when he becomes one YOU make him a subject for Ge·hen´na twice as much so as yourselves."
" Woe to YOU , Congregation Elders , hypocrites! because YOU give the tenth of the mint and the dill and the cumin, but YOU have disregarded the weightier matters of the Law, namely, justice and mercy and faithfulness. These things it was binding to do, yet not to disregard the other things. Blind guides, who strain out the gnat but gulp down the camel!"
" Woe to YOU , Congregation Elders , hypocrites! because YOU cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside they are full of plunder and immoderateness. Blind Elder, cleanse first the inside of the cup and of the dish, that the outside of it also may become clean."
" Woe to YOU , Congregation Elders , hypocrites! because YOU resemble whitewashed graves, which outwardly indeed appear beautiful but inside are full of dead men’s bones and of every sort of uncleanness. In that way YOU also, outwardly indeed, appear righteous to men, but inside YOU are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness."
" Woe to YOU , Congregation Elders , hypocrites! because YOU build the graves of the prophets and decorate the memorial tombs of the righteous ones, and YOU say, ‘If we were in the days of our forefathers, we would not be sharers with them in the blood of the prophets.’ Therefore YOU are bearing witness against yourselves that YOU are sons of those who murdered the prophets. Well, then, fill up the measure of YOUR forefathers."
