“Woe to you, lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge. You did not enter yourselves, and you hindered those who were entering.”
For a priest’s lips should preserve knowledge, and people should seek the law from his mouth; for he is the messenger of the Lord of Hosts.
One of them, who was a lawyer, tested Him by asking Him,
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven against men. For you neither enter yourselves, nor allow those who are entering to go in.
As He said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to incite Him vehemently and angrily draw Him out concerning many things,
They agreed with him. When they had called in the apostles, they beat them, and commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and released them.