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## the outside of cups and bowls ##
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Washing of the outside of containers was a part of the ritual practices of the Pharisees.
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## but the inside of you is filled with greed and wickedness ##
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This is a metaphor that compares the way they ignore the inside of the container to how they ignore their own internal condition. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
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## Did not the one who made the outside also make the inside? ##
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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: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])
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## give to the poor what is inside ##
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"Give what is inside to poor people." The meaning is "focus on using the inside for God instead of only cleaning the outside." |