Hypocrisy and Evildoing

Jesus said, "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You are like whitewashed tombs, which appear beautiful on the outside, but the inside are full of dead men's bones and every kind of filth. Even so, on the outside you appear righteous but inside you are filled with hypocrisy and evildoing. "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the memorials of the righteous, and you say, 'if we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would not have joined them in the shedding of the prophets' blood.' Thus you bear witness against yourselves that you are the children of those who murdered the prophets; now fill up what your ancestors measured out!"

Consideration: Once again, Jesus, calls out the hypocrisy of the scribes and Pharisees. He equates them to whitewashed tombs, which appear beautiful on the outside, but the inside are full of dead men's bones and every kind of filth.

Lord, Jesus, grant us the grace of realism, that we may conduct our lives with honesty and integrity. Let the light within our hearts be a visible sign to those in our families, and the people we encounter on a daily basis; never to live as the hypocrites in our midst. Amen.