Luke 11:46
He said, “Woe to you lawyers also! For you load men with burdens that are difficult to carry, and you yourselves won’t even lift one finger to help carry those burdens.
World English Bible
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In Context
45One of the lawyers answered him, “Teacher, in saying this you insult us also.”
47Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
Cross References
Isaiah 10:1Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees
Matthew 23:2saying, “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat.
Luke 11:52Woe to you lawyers! For you took away the key of knowledge. You didn’t enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in, you 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 →