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Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead [men’s] bones, and of all uncleanness.
Matthew 23:27 — KJV
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Matthew 23:27
King James Version (KJV)
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Matthew 23:27
Verse 27 of 39
Commentary
Commentary on Matthew 23:27
Theological / DevotionalWoe unto you. See on v. 13.
Whited sepulchres. According to ritual law an extreme form of defilement was contact with death. Priests, for instance, were not to “defile” themselves by contact with death, except in the case of immediate relatives (Lev. 21:1-4), but even this privilege was denied the high priest (vs. 10, 11). According to the Mishnah it was customary to whitewash graves on Adar 15, a month before the Passover, in order that priests and Nazirites might avoid defilement incurred by unwitting contact with graves (Shekalim 1.1, Soncino ed. of the Talmud, p. 1). For the procedure required in case of ceremonial defilement occasioned by contact with the dead see Num. 19:11-22. Compare Acts 23:3; see on Luke 11:44.
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