Luke 11:45-48

The Voice

Scholar (sitting at Jesus’ table): ⁴⁵ Rabbi, if You insult the Pharisees, then You insult us too.

Jesus: ⁴⁶ Well, now that you mention it, watch out, all you religious scholars! Judgment will come on you too! You load other people down with unbearable burdens of rules and regulations, but you don’t lift a finger to help others. ^47-48 Woe to you; you don’t fool anybody! You seem very religious—honoring the prophets by building them elaborate memorial tombs. Come to think of it, that’s very fitting, since you’re so much like the people who killed the prophets! They killed the prophets; you build their tombs—you’re all in the same family business!