John Gill Commentary


John Gill Commentary
"And one of the lawyers answering saith unto him, Teacher, in saying this thou reproachest us also." — Luke 11:45 (ASV)
Then answered one of the lawyers
Or Scribes, as the Syriac and Persic versions read: and so the Ethiopic version calls him, "a Scribe of the city": the Scribes and lawyers were the same sort of persons who interpreted the law, and equally tenacious of the traditions of the elders Christ had referred to, as the Pharisees, and in general were Pharisees; though some of them might be of the sect of the Sadducees. This man observing that Christ, in his last words, joined the Scribes and Pharisees together, and charged them both with hypocrisy, and pronounced a woe upon them, was very uneasy at it.
and says to him, master, thus saying, you reproach us
also ;
us lawyers, or Scribes also; both by mentioning their names, and accusing the Pharisees of the same things, of which they must be conscious they were equally guilty; so that if the one were criminal, the others were also. The Ethiopic version reads by way of interrogation, "what you say, does it not injure us?"