27-28. You are like whitewashed tombs. Just before the time of Passover, all the tombs and graves were whitewashed so no one would be made ritually unclean by touching one of them (Numbers 19:16), and to make them beautiful. From where they stood in the temple, they could see the whitewashed tombs on the western side of Olivet. Look fine full of dead men's bones. Strong words which say these leaders are pious frauds [sanctimonious], who look fine on the outside, but are full of sins inside. Compare Luke 11:44.

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