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- the outside of cups and bowls - Washing of the outside of containers was a part of the ritual practices of the Pharisees.
- but the inside of you is filled with greed and wickedness - This is a metaphor that compares the way they ignore the inside of the container to how they ignore their own internal condition. (See: en:ta:vol1:translate:figs_metaphor)
- Did not the one who made the outside also make the inside? - This is a rhetorical question. Jesus was rebuking the Pharisees for not understanding that what is in their hearts matters to God. It can be translated as a statement as it is in the UDB. (See: en:ta:vol1:translate:figs_rquestion)
- give to the poor what is inside - "Give what is inside to poor people." The meaning is "focus on using the inside for God instead of only cleaning the outside."