37While he was speaking, a Pharisee asked him to eat an early meal with him; and after he entered, he reclined.38The Pharisee saw and marveled that he had not first been baptized before the early meal.39The Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, yet inwardly you are full of plunder and evil."40Foolish ones, did not the one who made the outside also make the inside?41Nevertheless, give what is within as charity, and behold, all things are clean for you.42But woe to you Pharisees, for you tithe mint and rue and every plant, and you pass by judgment and the love of God; these you ought to have done without neglecting the others.43Woe to you Pharisees, for you love the seat of honor in the synagogues and salutations in the marketplaces.44Woe to you, for you are like unmarked graves, and people who walk over them do not know it.45One of the lawyers answered and said to him, "Teacher, in saying these things you also mistreat us."46He said, "And woe to you lawyers, for you burden people with ponderous burdens, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers."47Woe to you, for you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.48Therefore you are witnesses and consent to the deeds of your fathers, because they killed them, and you build their tombs.49For this reason the wisdom of God also said, "I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill and persecute."50So that the blood of all the prophets, shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation.51From the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah who perished between the altar and the house, yes, I say to you, it will be sought out from this generation.52Woe to you lawyers, for you took up the key of knowledge; you yourselves did not enter, and you prevented those entering.53When he went out from there, the scribes and the Pharisees began to oppose him fiercely and to question him about many things.54They lay in wait to catch something from his mouth.