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Luke 11:37-54 — Woes on the Pharisees and the Experts in the Law

Luke.11.37-54

³⁷Now as he was speaking, a Pharisee asked him to dine with him; so he went in and reclined at the table. ³⁸But the Pharisee, seeing this, was amazed that he did not first wash before the meal. ³⁹But the Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish, but your inside is full of greed and wickedness. ⁴⁰You fools! Did not the one who made the outside make the inside also? ⁴¹But give what is inside as alms, and behold, everything is clean for you. ⁴²But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, and yet you neglect justice and the love of God. But you ought to have done these things, and not to neglect the others. ⁴³Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the most important seats in the synagogues and the greetings in the marketplaces. ⁴⁴Woe to you! For you are like unseen tombs, and the people walking over them do not know it." ⁴⁵And one of the experts in the law answered and said to him, “Teacher, in saying these things you insult us also.” ⁴⁶And he said, "Woe to you experts in the law as well! For you load people with burdens hard to bear, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers. ⁴⁷Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. ⁴⁸Therefore you are witnesses and consent to the deeds of your fathers, because they killed them, and you build. ⁴⁹Because of this also the Wisdom of God said, 'I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill and persecute,' ⁵⁰so that the blood of all the prophets, poured out since the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation, ⁵¹from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, it will be required of this generation. ⁵²Woe to you experts in the law! For you have taken away the key of knowledge; you yourselves did not enter, and you hindered those who were entering." ⁵³As he went out from there , the scribes and the Pharisees began to oppose him fiercely and to ply him with questions about many things, ⁵⁴lying in wait for him in order to catch something out of his mouth.

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4/11/2026

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