Luke 11
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Luke 11:46-52

46But 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!

47Woe to you! You build the tombs of the prophets whom your ancestors killed.

48So you testify that you approve of the deeds of your ancestors, because they killed the prophets and you build their tombs!

49For this reason also the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and persecute,’

50so that this generation may be held accountable for the blood of all the prophets that has been shed since the beginning of the world,

51from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, it will be charged against this generation.

52Woe 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.”

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