Luke 11:46
And he said, Woe unto you also, all of you lawyers! for all of you load men with burdens grievous to be borne, and all of you yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.
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45Then answered one of the lawyers, and said unto him, Master, thus saying you reproach us also.
47Woe unto you! for all of you build the sepulchers 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 all of you have taken away the key of knowledge: all of you entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in all of 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 →