Léctio sancti Evangélii secundum Matthǽum (23,27-32)
In illo tempore: Locutus est Iesus dicens: Væ vobis, scribæ et pharisǽi hypócritæ, quia símiles estis sepúlcris dealbátis, quæ a foris quidem parent speciósa, intus vero plena sunt óssibus mortuórum et omni spurcítia! Sic et vos a foris quidem parétis homínibus iústi, intus autem pleni estis hypócrisi et iniquitáte. Væ vobis, scribæ et pharisǽi hypócritæ, qui ædificátis sepúlcra prophetárum et ornátis monuménta iustórum et dícitis: ‘Si fuissémus in diébus patrum nostrórum, non essémus sócii eórum in sánguine prophetárum’! Ítaque testimónio estis vobismetípsis quia fílii estis eórum, qui prophétas occidérunt. Et vos impléte mensúram patrum vestrórum.
At that time, Jesus spoke and said: At that Woe to you Scribes and Pharisees, Hypocrites: because you are like to whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear unto men beautiful, but within are full of dead men's bones, and all filthiness. So you also outwardly indeed appear to men just; but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. Woe to you Scribes and Pharisees, Hypocrites: because you build the Prophets' sepulchres, and garnish the monuments of just men, and say: If we had been in our fathers' days, we had not been their fellows in the blood of the Prophets. Therefore you are a testimony to your own selves, that you are the sons of them that killed the Prophets. And fill you up the measure of your fathers.
