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Luke 11:45

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One of the experts in the law said to Jesus, “Teacher, when you say these things about the Pharisees, you are criticizing our group too.”

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Who can I speak to? Who can I warn? Who will listen to me? The people of Israel have closed their ears, so they cannot hear my warnings. They don’t like the Lord’s teachings. They don’t want to hear his message.

Some of the Pharisees were near Jesus. They heard him say this. They asked, “What? Are you saying that we are blind too?”

You don’t see any of the leaders or any of us Pharisees believing in him, do you?

The world cannot hate you. But the world hates me, because I tell the people in the world that they do evil things.

“It will be bad for you, you experts in the law! You have taken away the key to learning about God. You yourselves would not learn, and you stopped others from learning too.”

Jesus answered, “It will be bad for you, you experts in the law! You make strict rules that are very hard for people to obey. You try to force others to obey your rules. But you yourselves don’t even try to follow any of those rules.

Then one of them, an expert in the Law of Moses, asked Jesus a question to test him.

Every time I speak, I shout. I am always shouting about violence and destruction. I tell the people about the message that I received from the Lord. But they only insult me and make fun of me.

King Ahab answered, “Yes, there is another prophet. His name is Micaiah son of Imlah. But I hate him because he will not say anything good about me when he speaks for the Lord. He always says things that I don’t like.” Jehoshaphat said, “The king should not say that!”

But the Pharisees and experts in the law refused to accept God’s plan for themselves; they did not let John baptize them.)




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