23:25 “Woe to you, experts in the law 1 and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.
1 tn Or “scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 2:4.
2 sn The allusion to washing (clean the outside of the cup) shows Jesus knew what they were thinking and deliberately set up a contrast that charged them with hypocrisy and majoring on minors.
3 tn Or “and evil.”