Luke 11:46
But he said: Woe to you lawyers also, because you load men with burdens which they cannot bear, and you yourselves touch not the packs with one of your fingers.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
47Woe to you who build the monuments of the prophets: and your fathers killed them.
Cross References
Isaiah 10:1Woe to them that make wicked laws: and when they write, write injustice:
Matthew 23:2Saying: The scribes and the Pharisees have sitten on the chair of Moses.
Luke 11:52Woe to you lawyers, for you have taken away the key of knowledge: you yourselves have not entered in, and those that were entering in, you have hindered.
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 →