Luke 11:45

New English Translation

One of the experts in religious law answered him, “Teacher, when you say these things you insult us too.”

Cross References

1 Kings 22:8

The king of Israel answered Jehoshaphat, “There is still one man through whom we can seek the Lord’s will. But I despise him because he does not prophesy prosperity for me, but disaster. His name is Micaiah son of Imlah. Jehoshaphat said, “The king should not say such things.”

Jeremiah 20:8

For whenever I prophesy, I must cry out, “Violence and destruction are coming!” This message from the Lord has made me an object of continual insults and derision.

Jeremiah 6:10

I answered, “Who would listen if I spoke to them and warned them? Their ears are so closed that they cannot hear! Indeed, what the Lord says is offensive to them. They do not like it at all.

Matthew 22:35

And one of them, an expert in religious law, asked him a question to test him:

Luke 11:46

But Jesus replied, “Woe to you experts in religious law as well! You load people down with burdens difficult to bear, yet you yourselves refuse to touch the burdens with even one of your fingers!

Luke 11:52

Woe to you experts in religious law! You have taken away the key to knowledge! You did not go in yourselves, and you hindered those who were going in.”

Luke 7:30

However, the Pharisees and the experts in religious law rejected God’s purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John.)

John 7:48

None of the rulers or the Pharisees have believed in him, have they?

John 7:7

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I am testifying about it that its deeds are evil.

John 9:40

Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard this and asked him, “We are not blind too, are we?”