Luke 11:37-54 - Pharisees And Legal Experts Denounced
37 And while He was speaking, a Pharisee asked Him, that He would dine with him: and having come in, He sat up at the table. 38 And the Pharisee seeing, was astonished because He was not first baptized before dinner. 39 And the Lord said to him, Now you Pharisees purify the outside of the cup and the plate, but the interior is full of extortion and wickedness. 40 Ye fools, did not the One having made the outside also make the inside? 41 Therefore give alms of your substance; and behold all things are pure unto you.
42 But woe unto you, Pharisees! because you tithe mint and rue and every herb, and you pass by judgment and the love of God: it behooveth to do these things, and not to omit those.
43 Woe unto you, Pharisees! because you love the front seat in the synagogues, and salutations in the forums.
44 Woe unto you! because you are like tombs unseen, and men walking over them do not know it.
45 And a certain one of the theologians responding says to Him, Teacher, speaking these things yon indeed insult us.
46 And He said, Woe unto you, theologians! because you lay burdens on the people difficult to be borne, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers.
47 Woe unto you! because you build the sepulchers of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. 48 Therefore you are witnesses and you consent unto the works of your fathers: because they slew them, and you build. 49 Therefore the wisdom of God said, I will send unto them prophets and apostles; and some of them they will slay and persecute. 50 In order that the blood of all the prophets poured out from the foundation of the world, may be required from this generation; 51 from the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the house; yea, I say unto you, it shall be required of this generation.
52 Woe unto you, theologians! because you have taken away the key of knowledge: you did not come in, and you prohibited those who were coming in.
53 And He having come out from thence, the scribes and Pharisees began vehemently to press on Him, and mouth after Him concerning many things; 54 laying in wait, to catch something from His mouth.