Luke 11:37-54

³⁷Now when He had spoken, a Pharisee *asked Him to have lunch with him; and He went in and reclined at the table. ³⁸When the Pharisee saw this, he was surprised that Jesus had not first ceremonially washed before the meal. ³⁹But the Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and of the dish; but your inside is full of greed and wickedness. ⁴⁰You foolish ones, did He who made the outside not make the inside also? ⁴¹But give that which is within as a charitable gift, and then all things are clean for you.

⁴²“But woe to you Pharisees! For you pay tithes of mint, rue, and every kind of garden herb, and yet you ignore justice and the love of God; but these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others. ⁴³Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the seat of honor in the synagogues and personal greetings in the marketplaces. ⁴⁴Woe to you! For you are like unseen tombs, and the people who walk over them are unaware of it.”

⁴⁵One of the lawyers *said to Him in reply, “Teacher, when You say these things, You insult us too.” ⁴⁶But He said, “Woe to you lawyers as well! For you load people with burdens that are hard to bear, while you yourselves will not even touch the burdens with one of your fingers. ⁴⁷Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and it was your fathers who killed them. ⁴⁸So you are witnesses and you approve of the deeds of your fathers; because it was they who killed them, and you build their tombs. ⁴⁹For this reason also, the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill, and some they will persecute, ⁵⁰so that the blood of all the prophets, shed since the foundation of the world, may be charged against this generation, ⁵¹from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar and the house of God; yes, I tell you, it shall be charged against this generation.’ ⁵²Woe to you lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge; you yourselves did not enter, and you hindered those who were entering.”

⁵³When He left that place, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be very hostile and to interrogate Him about many subjects, ⁵⁴plotting against Him to catch Him in something He might say.