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# Woe to you ... hypocrites!
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"How terrible it will be for you ... hypocrites!" See how you translated this in [Matthew 11:21 ](../11/21.md ).
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# For you clean the outside of the cup and of the plate, but inside they are full of robbery and self-indulgence
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This is a metaphor that means the scribes and Pharisees appear pure on the outside to others, but on the inside they are wicked. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
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# they are full of robbery and self-indulgence
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"they take what belongs to others, and they do almost everything to benefit themselves"
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