"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead [men's] bones and all uncleanness.

"Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

' You shall do no injustice in judgment, in measurement of length, weight, or volume.

To the Chief Musician. Set to "Do Not Destroy." A Michtam of David. Do you indeed speak righteousness, you silent ones? Do you judge uprightly, you sons of men?

No, in heart you work wickedness; You weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth.

A Psalm of Asaph. God stands in the congregation of the mighty; He judges among the gods.

How long will you judge unjustly, And show partiality to the wicked? Selah

Shall the throne of iniquity, which devises evil by law, Have fellowship with You?

Moreover I saw under the sun: [In] the place of judgment, Wickedness [was] there; And [in] the place of righteousness, Iniquity [was] there.

You who turn justice to wormwood, And lay righteousness to rest in the earth!"

But truly I am full of power by the Spirit of the LORD, And of justice and might, To declare to Jacob his transgression And to Israel his sin.

Who build up Zion with bloodshed And Jerusalem with iniquity:

"If there is a dispute between men, and they come to court, that [the judges] may judge them, and they justify the righteous and condemn the wicked,

"then it shall be, if the wicked man deserves to be beaten, that the judge will cause him to lie down and be beaten in his presence, according to his guilt, with a certain number of blows.

"Does our law judge a man before it hears him and knows what he is doing?"

Then Annas sent Him bound to Caiaphas the high priest.