nsb Luke:11:37-54

nsb@Luke:11:37 @ As he spoke a Pharisee invited him to dine with him. He accepted the invitation and went to eat.

nsb@Luke:11:38 @ The Pharisee wondered about Jesus not bathing before dinner.

nsb@Luke:11:39 @ The Lord said: »You Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter. Yet your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.

nsb@Luke:11:40 @ »You foolish ones. Did he that made the outside also make the inside?

nsb@Luke:11:41 @ « Give that which is within as charity. Then all things are clean for you.

nsb@Luke:11:42 @ »Woe to you Pharisees! You tithe mint and rue and every herb, and pass over justice and the love of God. You should have done these but you leave them undone.

nsb@Luke:11:43 @ »Woe to you Pharisees! You love the prominent seats in the synagogues, and the greetings in the marketplaces.

nsb@Luke:11:44 @ »Woe to you! You are as the tombs that do not appear and men walk over them and do not know it.«

nsb@Luke:11:45 @ One of the lawyers said to him: »Teacher, you also insult us by saying this.«

nsb@Luke:11:46 @ Jesus said: »Woe to you lawyers also! For you load men with burdens that are difficult to bear. And you will not even touch the burdens with one of your fingers.

nsb@Luke:11:47 @ »Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

nsb@Luke:11:48 @ »Therefore you are witnesses and consent to the works of your fathers. They killed them and you build their tombs.

nsb@Luke:11:49 @ »It is for this reason the wisdom of God said, I send to them prophets and apostles and they will persecute and kill some of them.

nsb@Luke:11:50 @ »The blood of all the prophets shed from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation.

nsb@Luke:11:51 @ »This includes the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary. I tell you it will be required of this generation.

nsb@Luke:11:52 @ »Woe to you lawyers, for you took away the key of knowledge. You did not enter in yourselves and you hindered those entering.«

nsb@Luke:11:53 @ When he left there the scribes and the Pharisees became hostile with him. They tried to quarrel with him about many things.

nsb@Luke:11:54 @ They plotted against him and tried to catch him in something he might say.

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