Woe to you, lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge. You did not enter in yourselves, and you have hindered those who were entering in.
For the priest's lips should guard knowledge, and they should seek the Law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Jehovah of Hosts.
Then one of them, a lawyer, asked, tempting Him and saying,
But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of Heaven against men. For you neither go in, nor do you allow those entering to go in.
And as He said these things to them, the scribes and Pharisees began to be terribly angry, and to draw Him out concerning many things,
And they obeyed him. And calling the apostles, beating them, they commanded not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.