Luke:11:37-54
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While Jesus was saying these things ,
a Pharisee asked him to come to eat at his house .
So Jesus went in and sat at the table .
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The Pharisee saw that Jesus did not wash his hands before he ate .
He was surprised .
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The Lord said to him ,
You Pharisees wash the outside of a cup and a dish clean .
But inside you are full of greed and wrong ways .
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You are fools !
Did not God make the outside and inside also ?
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Do good ,
and do it from your heart .
Then everything is clean for you .
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You Pharisees will have trouble !
You give to God a tenth part of small garden plants .
But you do not judge in the right way .
And you do not love God .
You should do these things and the other things too .
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You Pharisees will have trouble !
In the meeting houses you want to sit in the front seats .
And in the market you want people to greet you .
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You will have trouble !
You are not true to yourselves !
You are like graves that are not marked .
Men walk over them and do not know it .
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Then one of the men who taught Gods law said to Jesus ,
Teacher ,
when you say these things ,
you talk against us too .
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Jesus said ,
You men will have trouble also !
You put heavy loads on peoples backs .
But you yourselves will not put up one finger to help carry the loads .
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You will have trouble !
You build places to bury the prophets of God that your fathers killed .
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In this way you show you agree to the things your fathers did .
They killed the prophets ,
and you build places to bury them .
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That is why God ,
who is wise ,
said , "
I will send prophets and messengers to them .
They will kill some of them .
And they will trouble some of them ."
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So the people who are living now will be punished for all the blood of the prophets of God that is on the ground since the world was made .
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I mean all the blood from the time of Abel to the time of Zechariah . (
He was killed between the holy table and the temple .)
Yes ,
I tell you .
The people who are living now will be punished for all of it .
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You teachers of Gods law will have trouble !
You have taken away the key of the door where people can go in and know what is true .
You yourselves did not go in ,
and you stopped those who were going in .
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When Jesus left the house ,
the scribes and Pharisees began to be very angry with him .
They asked him questions about many things .
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They wanted him to say something that was wrong so they could make trouble for him .
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