⁴³ “Woe to you Pharisees! For how you love the seats of honor in the synagogues and the respectful greetings from everyone as you walk through the markets! ⁴⁴ Yes, awesome judgment is awaiting you. For you are like hidden graves in a field. Men go by you with no knowledge of the corruption they are passing.”

⁴⁵ “Sir,” said an expert in religious law who was standing there, “you have insulted my profession, too, in what you just said.”