Luke 11:46
“Woe to you as well, experts in the law!” He replied. “For you weigh men down with heavy burdens, but you yourselves will not lift a finger to lighten their load.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
45One of the experts in the law told Him, “Teacher, when You say these things, You insult us as well.”
47Woe to you! For you build tombs for the prophets, but it was your fathers who killed them.
Cross References
Isaiah 10:1Woe to those who enact unjust statutes and issue oppressive decrees,
Matthew 23:2“The scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat.
Luke 11:52Woe to you experts in the law! For you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering.”
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 →