Luke 11:46

46 So he said, "Woe to you also, legal experts, because you load people [with] burdens hard to bear, and [you] yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers!

Luke 11:46 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 11:46

And he said, woe unto you also, ye lawyers
Christ was so far from calling back what he had said or suggested, that he repeats and confirms it, and more particularly names them, and enlarges on their evil practices:

for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye
yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers;
(See Gill on Matthew 23:4).

Luke 11:46 In-Context

44 Woe to you, because you are like unmarked graves, and the people who walk over [them] do not know [it]!

45 And one of the legal experts answered [and] said to him, "Teacher, [when you] say these [things], you insult us also!"

46 So he said, "Woe to you also, legal experts, because you load people [with] burdens hard to bear, and [you] yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers!

47 Woe to you, because you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them!

48 As a result you are witnesses, and you approve of the deeds of your fathers, because they killed them and you build [their tombs]!