Luke 11:52-53

11:52 Woe to you experts in religious law! You have taken away ¹  the key to knowledge! You did not go in yourselves, and you hindered ²  those who were going in.”

11:53 When he went out from there, the experts in the law ³  and the Pharisees began to oppose him bitterly, ⁴  and to ask him hostile questions ⁵  about many things,

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.”

³ tn Or “the scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 5:21.

⁴ tn Or “terribly.”

⁵ tn For this term see L&N 33.183.