“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous,
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you are like whitewashed tombs which outwardly indeed look well, but inside are filled with dead men’s bones and all uncleanness.
“So you too outwardly indeed appear righteous to men, but inside you are filled with hypocrisy and lawlessness.
and say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in the blood of the prophets.’
“Men and brothers, let me speak boldly to you of the ancestor Dawiḏ