Luke 11:46-54
11:46 But Jesus
replied,
“Woe to you experts in religious law as well!
You load people
down with burdens difficult to bear, yet you yourselves refuse to touch
the burdens with even one of your fingers!
11:47 Woe to you! You build
the tombs of the prophets whom your ancestors
killed.
11:48 So you testify that you approve of
the deeds of your ancestors,
because they killed the prophets
and you build their
tombs!
11:49 For this reason also the wisdom
of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and persecute,’
11:50 so that this generation may be held accountable
for the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the beginning
of the world,
11:51 from the blood of Abel
to the blood of Zechariah,
who was killed
between the altar and the sanctuary.
Yes, I tell you, it will be charged against
this generation.
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.