Luke 11:45

In response one of the lawyers said to him, “Teacher, by saying these things, yoʋ insult us as well.”

Text-Critical English NT

In The King James Version

Then answered one of the lawyers, and said unto him, Master, thus saying thou reproachest us also.

In Context

44Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like unmarked graves, which people walk over without realizing it.”

46But Jesus said, “Woe also to you lawyers! For you burden people with burdens that are hard to bear, but you yourselves do not touch the burdens with even one of your fingers.

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Cross References

Matthew 22:35And one of them, a lawyer, asked Jesus a question to test him:

Luke 11:52Woe to you lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were trying to enter.”

John 7:48Have any of the rulers or the Pharisees believed in him?

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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