³⁷As he was speaking, a Pharisee^a asked him to dine with him. So he went in and reclined at the table. ³⁸When the Pharisee saw this, he was amazed that he did not first perform the ritual washing^E^b before dinner.^c ³⁹But the Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed^d and evil.^e ⁴⁰Fools!^f Didn’t he who made the outside make the inside too? ⁴¹But give from what is within to the poor,^A^g and then everything is clean^h for you.

⁴²“But woeⁱ to you Pharisees! You give a tenth^B^j of mint, rue, and every kind of herb, and you bypass^C justice^k and love for God.^D^l These things you should have done without neglecting the others.

⁴³“Woe to you Pharisees! You love the front seat^m in the synagoguesⁿ and greetings in the marketplaces.

⁴⁴“Woe to you!^E You are like unmarked graves;^o the people who walk over them don’t know it.”

⁴⁵One of the experts in the law^p answered him, “Teacher, when you say these things you insult us too.”

⁴⁶Then he said, “Woe also to you experts in the law! You load people with burdens^q that are hard to carry, and yet you yourselves don’t touch these burdens with one of your fingers.^r

⁴⁷“Woe to you! You build tombs^F for the prophets,^s and your fathers killed^t them. ⁴⁸Therefore, you are witnesses^u that you approve^G^v the deeds of your fathers, for they killed them, and you build their monuments.^H ⁴⁹Because of this, the wisdom of God^w said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles,^x and some of them they will kill and persecute,’^y ⁵⁰so that this generation^z may be held responsible for the blood of all the prophets shed since the foundation of the world^I^aa—⁵¹from the blood of Abel^ab to the blood of Zechariah,^ac who perished between the altar and the sanctuary.

“Yes, I tell you, this generation will be held responsible.^J

⁵²“Woe to you experts in the law! You have taken away the key to knowledge.^ad You didn’t go in yourselves, and you hindered^ae those who were trying to go in.”

⁵³When he left there,^K the scribes and the Pharisees began to oppose^af him fiercely and to cross-examine him about many things; ⁵⁴they were lying in wait^ag for him to trap him in something he said.^L^ah

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Luke 11:42: ...But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, and neglect justice and the love of God. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.

Footnotes

E he did not first wash
AOr But donate from the heart as charity
BOr a tithe
COr neglect
D the justice and the love of God
EOther add scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!
FOr graves
G witnesses and approve
HOther omit their monuments
I so that the blood of all … world may be required of this generation,
J you, it will be required of this generation
KOther read And as he was saying these things to them
LOther add so that they might bring charges against him

Cross references

a Lk 7:36
b Heb 6:2
c Mt 15:2; Mk 7:2–5
d Mt 23:25; Lk 12:20; 16:14; Heb 10:34
e Mk 7:22
f Mt 23:17; Lk 12:20
g Lk 12:33; Ac 24:17
h Ps 24:4; Ti 1:15
i Lk 10:13
j Dt 14:22; Lk 18:12
k Mc 6:8; Zch 7:9; Mt 12:18,20; Jn 7:24; Ac 8:33
l Dt 6:5; Lk 10:27; Jn 5:42; 2Th 3:5
m Mt 23:6; Mk 12:39; Lk 20:46
n Jms 2:2
o Mt 23:27
p Lk 7:30
q Mt 23:4; Ac 27:10; Gl 6:5
r Mt 11:28–30; Ac 15:10
s Mt 2:23; Ac 7:52
t Lk 20:15
u Mt 23:31
v Ac 22:20; Rm 1:32
w Pr 1:20–33; 8:1–36; Mt 23:34
x Lk 11:27; 13:1; 15:32; 21:9–10; Jn 13:16; Ac 1:2
y 1Th 2:15; 2Tm 3:12
z Lk 11:29
aa Heb 9:26; Rv 18:24
ab Gn 4:9–10; Heb 12:24; 1Jn 3:12
ac 2Ch 24:20–22
ad 1Co 14:6
ae 1Co 14:39
af Mk 6:19; Gl 5:1
ag Ac 23:21
ah Is 29:21; Mt 22:15; Mk 3:2; 12:13; Lk 20:20; Jn 8:6