Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
Ver. 28. But within ye are full, &c.] Fair professors they were, but foul sinners, not close, but gross hypocrites, such as knew themselves to be so; like as Jeroboam's wife knew herself to be disguised, when she went to the prophet; and as the whore that offered sacrifice to cover her whoredom, Proverbs 7:14. This hypocrisy goes worthily coupled here with iniquity. It ariseth from secret atheism, as in Ananias and Sapphira, that noble pair of hypocrites, and paveth a way to the unpardonable sin, as in these Pharisees.