Luke 11:46
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.
King James Version
In Context
45Then answered one of the lawyers, and said unto him, Master, thus saying thou reproachest us also.
47Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
Cross References
Isaiah 10:1Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;
Matthew 23:2Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat:
Luke 11:52Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye 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 →