Luke 11:53

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

When Jesus went out, the teachers of the law and the Pharisees began to give him much trouble. They tried to make him answer questions about many things.

Cross References

1 Corinthians 13:5

Love is not rude, it is not selfish, and it cannot be made angry easily. Love does not remember wrongs done against it.

Luke 20:27

Some Sadducees came to Jesus. (Sadducees believe that people will not rise from death.) They asked him,

Luke 20:20

So the Jewish leaders waited for the right time to get Jesus. They sent some men to him, who pretended to be sincere. They wanted to find something wrong with what Jesus said. (If they found something wrong, then they could hand him over to the governor, who had the authority to arrest him.)

Jeremiah 20:10

I hear people whispering against me. Everywhere, I hear things that frighten me. Even my friends are speaking against me. People are just waiting for me to make a mistake. They are saying, “Let us lie and say that he did something bad. Maybe we can trick Jeremiah. Then we will have him. We will finally be rid of him. Then we will grab him and take our revenge on him.”

Jeremiah 18:18

Then the enemies of Jeremiah said, “Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah. We will always have a priest to tell us what the law says. We will still have wise men to advise us and prophets to tell us a message from God. So who needs Jeremiah? Let’s tell lies to ruin him and stop listening to what he says.”

Isaiah 9:12

As for Israel, the Arameans are in front of him and the Philistines are behind him. And they are both eating away at him. But the Lord is not finished yet. He is still angry, and his arm is raised to continue punishing Israel.

Luke 11:52

“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.”

Luke 11:54

They were trying to find a way to catch Jesus saying something wrong.

Acts 26:9

“I used to think that I should do everything I could against Jesus from Nazareth.

2 Corinthians 8:6

So we asked Titus to help you finish this special work of giving. He is the one who started this work.