Luke 11:45-54

45 One of the ¹lawyers said to Him in reply, "Teacher, when You say this, You insult us too."

46 But He said, "Woe to you ²lawyers as well! For ³you weigh men down with burdens hard to bear, while you yourselves will not even touch the burdens with one of your fingers.

47 "⁴Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and it was your fathers who killed them.

48 "So you are witnesses and approve the deeds of your fathers; because it was they who killed them, and you build their tombs.

49 "For this reason also ⁵the wisdom of God said, '⁶I will send to them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill and some they will persecute,

50 so that the blood of all the prophets, shed ⁷since the foundation of the world, may be charged against this generation,

51 from ⁸the blood of Abel to ⁹the blood of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar and the house of God; yes, I tell you, it shall be charged against this generation.'

52 "Woe to you ¹⁰lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge; ¹¹you yourselves did not enter, and you hindered those who were entering."

53 When He left there, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be very hostile and to question Him closely on many subjects,

54 ¹²plotting against Him ¹³to catch Him in something He might say *.

Cross References

• 1. Matthew 22:35; Luke 11:46, 52
• 2. Matthew 22:35; Luke 11:45, 52
• 3. Matthew 23:4
• 4. Matthew 23:29f
• 5. 1 Corinthians 1:24, 30; Colossians 2:3
• 6. Matthew 23:34-36
• 7. Matthew 25:34
• 8. Genesis 4:8
• 9. 2 Chronicles 24:20, 21
• 10. Matthew 22:35; Luke 11:45, 46
• 11. Matthew 23:13
• 12. Mark 3:2; Luke 20:20; Acts 23:21
• 13. Mark 12:13

Footnotes

• [a] I.e. experts in the Mosaic Law
• [b] Lit "and"
• [c] Or "monuments to"
• [d] Or "drive out"
• [e] Or "required of"
• [f] Or "required of"
• [g] I.e. experts in the Mosaic Law
• [h] Lit "something out of His mouth"