Luke 11:39–52

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 40}Fools!^f Didn’t he who made the outside make the inside too? ⁴¹But give from what is within to the poor,^Ag and then everything is clean^h for you.

⁴²“But woeⁱ to you Pharisees! You give a tenth^Bj of mint, rue, and every kind of herb, and you bypass^C justice^k and love for God.^Dl 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^Gv the deeds of your fathers, for they killed them, and you build their monuments.^{H 49}Because 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 50}so that this generation^z may be held responsible for the blood of all the prophets shed since the foundation of the world^Iaa—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.”