Text -- Luke 11:52-54 (NET)

11:52 Woe to you experts in religious law! You have taken away the key to knowledge! You did not go in yourselves, and you hindered those who were going in.” 11:53 When he went out from there, the experts in the law and the Pharisees began to oppose him bitterly, and to ask him hostile questions about many things, 11:54 plotting against him, to catch him in something he might say.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Luk 11:52

¹ sn You have taken away the key to knowledge is another stinging rebuke. They had done the opposite of what they were trying to do.

² tn Or “you tried to prevent.”

NET Notes: Luk 11:53

¹ tn Or “the scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 5:21.

² tn Or “terribly.”

³ tn For this term see L&N 33.183.

NET Notes: Luk 11:54

¹ tn Grk “lying in ambush against,” but this is a figurative extension of that meaning.

² tn This term was often used in a hunting context (BDAG 455 s.v. θηρεύω; L&N 27.30). Later examples of this appear in Luke 20.