Matthew 23:27-28

Seven Woes to the Scribes and Pharisees

²⁷ _n "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like _o whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people's bones and _p all uncleanness. ²⁸ So you also _q outwardly appear righteous to others, but within you are full of _r hypocrisy and lawlessness.

1. Cross References
   Luke 11:44
   Woe to you! For you are like unmarked graves, and people walk over them without knowing it.
   
2. Cross References
   Acts 23:3
   Then Paul said to him, "God is going to strike you, you whitewashed wall! Are you sitting to judge me according to the law, and yet contrary to the law you order me to be struck?
   
3. Cross References
   Ephesians 5:3
   But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.
   Numbers 19:16
   Whoever in the open field touches someone who was killed with a sword or who died naturally, or touches a human bone or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.
   2 Kings 23:16
   And as Josiah turned, he saw the tombs there on the mount. And he sent and took the bones out of the tombs and burned them on the altar and defiled it, according to the word of the Lord that the man of God proclaimed, who had predicted these things.
   
4. Cross References
   Matthew 23:5
   They do all their deeds to be seen by others. For they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long.
   
5. Cross References
   Luke 12:1
   In the meantime, when so many thousands of the people had gathered together that they were trampling one another, he began to say to his disciples first, "Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.