Alas for you, Teachers of the Law and Pharisees, hypocrites that you are! You clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are filled with the results of greed and self-indulgence.

Then Jesus said to his disciples: "If any man wishes to walk in my steps, let him renounce self, and take up his cross, and follow me.

'These last,' they said, 'have done only one hour's work, and yet you have put them on the same footing with us, who have borne the brunt of the day's work, and the heat.'

Take what belongs to you, and go. I choose to give to this last man the same as to you.

Then the father went to the second son, and said the same. 'I will not,' he answered; but afterwards he was sorry and went.

A second time the owner sent some servants, a larger number than before, and the tenants treated them in the same way.

That same day some Sadducees came up to Jesus, maintaining that there is no resurrection. Their question was this:--

The same thing happened to the second and the third brothers, and indeed to all the seven.

It is the same with you. Outwardly, and to others, you have the look of religious men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and sin.