However, the Pharisees and the experts in religious law rejected God’s purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John.)

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

Now an expert in religious law stood up to test Jesus, saying, “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

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.”

So Jesus asked the experts in religious law and the Pharisees, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath or not?”

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!