Some of the people who were there said to Jesus, “John’s disciples often pray and go without eating, and so do the Pharisees’ disciples. But yours go on eating and drinking.”
One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.”
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees! You hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. You don’t enter yourselves, but you won’t let in other people who are trying to enter.