MATTHEW 23:27 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“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 to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people's bones and all uncleanness. The seventh and climactic woe: the whitewashed tombs that are beautiful outside and dead inside. Tombs were whitewashed before Passover to warn pilgrims not to inadvertently touch them and become ritually impure. The image is the perfect summary of the Pharisaic hypocrisy: the external beauty that warns others away from impurity while the inside is full of death and all uncleanness.
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