Luke 11:46

Jesus replied, “Shame on you lawyers too! You place burdens on people that are too hard to carry, but you don't lift a finger to help them.

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In The King James Version

And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.

In Context

45One of the experts in religious law reacted, saying, “Teacher, when you talk like this, you're insulting us too!”

47Shame on you! You build memorial tombs to honor the prophets, but it was your own fathers who killed them in the first place!

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Cross References

Isaiah 10:1Tragedy is coming to those who pass evil decrees and who write laws to harm people.

Matthew 23:2“The religious teachers and the Pharisees are responsible as interpreters of the law of Moses,

Luke 11:52Shame on you lawyers! You have removed the key of knowledge. You didn't go in yourselves, and you prevented others from going in too.”

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 →

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