Luke 11:46
And he said, Woe also to you lawyers! Because ye load men with burdens difficult to bear, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
47Woe to you! Because ye build the sepulchers of the prophets, but your fathers killed them.
Cross References
Isaiah 10:1Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write perverseness,
Matthew 23:2The scholars and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat.
Luke 11:52Woe to you lawyers! Because ye took away the key of knowledge. Ye did not enter in yourselves, and ye hindered those who were entering in.
Matthew Henry on Luke 11:38-54
Woes Denounced on That Generation; The Pharisees and Lawyers Reproved. 37 And as he spake, a certain Pharisee besought him to dine with him: and he went in, and sat down to meat. 38 And when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had not first washed before dinner. 39 And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness. 40 Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also? 41… Read the whole commentary →