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Woes to the Pharisees and Lawyers

Luke 11:37-54

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Chapter 11
37 But a Pharisee asked him to speak with him so that he might dine with him; but having entered, he reclined. 38 But the Pharisee was amazed when he saw this, that he had not first washed before dinner. 39 But the Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the plate, but your inside is full of plunder and wickedness." 40 Fools! Did not the one who made the outside also make the inside? 41 But give as almsgiving the things inside, and behold, all things are pure to you. 42 But woe to you Pharisees, because you tithe rue and mint and every herb, and pass by the judgment and the love of God. But it was necessary to do these, and not to neglect those. 43 Woe to you Pharisees, because you love the chief seat in the synagogues and the greetings in the marketplaces. 44 Woe to you, for you are like unmarked tombs, and the people walking over them do not know it. 45 But one of the lawyers answered him, "Teacher, when you say these things, you insult us also." 46 But he said, "Woe to you 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, but your fathers killed them. 48 Therefore you are witnesses and consent to the works of your fathers, because they indeed killed them, but you build. 49 Because of this, the wisdom of God said: "I will send prophets and apostles to them, and some of them they will kill and persecute." 50 so that the blood of all the prophets, the blood poured out from the foundation of the world, may be sought from this generation, 51 from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was destroyed between the altar and the house; yes, I say to you, it will be required from this generation. 52 Woe to you, the legal experts, because you took away the key of knowledge. You yourselves did not enter, and those who were entering you hindered. 53 And when he went out from there, the scribes and the Pharisees began to press him fiercely and to question him closely about many things. 54 lying in wait for him, to catch something from his mouth.