Luke 11:37-54 - Pharisees And Legal Experts Denounced
37 And as He spake, a certain pharisee asked Him to dine with him: and He went in and sat down at table. 38 And when the pharisee saw it he wondered that He did not wash first, before dinner. 39 But the Lord said unto him, ye pharisees clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your inward part is full of rapine and wickedness. 40 Senseless creatures! Did not He who made the outside, make also that which is within? give alms rather according to your ability: 41 and behold all things are clean to you.
42 But wo unto you pharisees, who tithe even your mint, and rue, and all your herbs, and pass by judgement and the love of God: these ought ye to practise and not to omit the others.
43 Wo unto you pharisees; for ye love the chief seat in synagogues, and salutations in public places.
44 Wo unto you scribes and pharisees, hypocrites; for ye are like graves that do not appear, and those that walk over them are not aware of them.
45 And one of the doctors of the law answered and said unto Him, Master, in saying these things thou reproachest us also.
46 And He said, Wo unto you also, ye interpreters of the law, for ye load men with insupportable burthens, and ye yourselves touch not the burthens with one of your fingers.
47 Wo unto you; who build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. 48 Thus ye testify that ye approve of the deeds of your fathers; for they put them to death, and ye build their sepulchres. 49 And therefore the wisdom of God hath said, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill and persecute: 50 that the blood of all the prophets which has been shed from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation, from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, 51 who perished between the altar and the temple. Verily I tell you, it shall be required of this generation.
52 Wo unto you interpreters of the law; for ye have taken away the key of knowledge, ye entered not in yourselves, and those that were entering in, ye hindered.
53 As He was saying these things unto them the scribes and pharisees began vehemently to attack Him, and urge Him to speak of many things, 54 laying snares for Him, and endeavouring to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse Him.