Matthew Poole and continuators on Matthew 23:28

28 Even so ye also appear outwardly righteous unto men, unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisie, and iniquity.

The Similitude is of the same import, with the other to shew, that the Pharisees had only a Vizour of strictness, and Holiness, when in the mean time their Hearts were full of Lusts, Hypocrisie and Iniquity. The Iews had two sorts of Graves; some for ordinary Persons which appeared not (to which our Saviour likened the Pharisees, Luk. 11.44.) Others that were covered with Tombes, which were wont to be kept whited, so as they looked very fair outwardly, but had within nothing but Rottenness and Putrefaction. To these he compareth them in this place. They were Men that made a great shew, but had nothing of any inward Purity or cleanness, but were full of Iniquity: Thus Paul called Ananias a w[illegible: 2 letters]ted Wall, and Psal. 5.9. The Psalmist saith of the Throat of the Wicked, that it is an open Sepulcher.