“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You build the tombs of the prophets, and adorn the memorials of the righteous,
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men’s bones and of all impurity.
So you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
and say, ‘If we lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have partaken with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’
“Brothers, I may speak confidently to you concerning the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.