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Whitewashed tombs look bright outside in Jesus’s metaphor, with no exposed human remains.
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Matthew 23:27

Whitewashed Tombs

Jesus Warns the Leaders and Laments Jerusalem · Matthew 23

Story guide: The bright tomb exteriors illustrate the comparison Jesus makes with outward beauty and inward uncleanness.

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27Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead people's bones and every kind of uncleanness.

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