Now if I cast out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore they will be your judges.

So you testify that you approve of the deeds of your ancestors, because they killed the prophets and you build their tombs!

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.”

Now one Sabbath when Jesus went to dine at the house of a leader of the Pharisees, they were watching him closely.

(for I have five brothers) to warn them so that they don’t come into this place of torment.’

But the twelve understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they did not grasp what Jesus meant.

So they began to question one another as to which of them it could possibly be who would do this.

You yourselves can testify that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but rather, ‘I have been sent before him.’

Moving on from Perga, they arrived at Pisidian Antioch, and on the Sabbath day they went into the synagogue and sat down.

but since it concerns points of disagreement about words and names and your own law, settle it yourselves. I will not be a judge of these things!”

I replied, ‘Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat those in the various synagogues who believed in you.

I have a hope in God (a hope that these men themselves accept too) that there is going to be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous.

For those who are circumcised do not obey the law themselves, but they want you to be circumcised so that they can boast about your flesh.

Now on the topic of brotherly love you have no need for anyone to write you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.

So I endure all things for the sake of those chosen by God, that they too may obtain salvation in Christ Jesus and its eternal glory.

“Therefore, I became provoked at that generation and said, ‘Their hearts are always wandering and they have not known my ways.’

you yourselves, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood and to offer spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Then they too will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not give you whatever you needed?’

He said to them, “Come with me privately to an isolated place and rest a while” (for many were coming and going, and there was no time to eat).

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!