Luke 11:52 “Woe to you experts in the law! For you have taken away the key to know…”

Luke 11:52

Woe to you experts in the law! For you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.

World English Bible

Woe to you lawyers! For you took away the key of knowledge. You didn’t enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in, you hindered.”

American Standard Version

Woe unto you lawyers! for ye took away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.

Geneva Bible 1599

Wo be to you, Lawyers: for ye haue taken away the key of knowledge: ye entred not in your selues, and them that came in, ye forbade.

Darby Translation

Woe unto you, the doctors of the law, for ye have taken away the key of knowledge; yourselves have not entered in, and those who were entering in ye have hindered.

Young's Literal Translation

'Woe to you, the lawyers, because ye took away the key of the knowledge; yourselves ye did not enter; and those coming in, ye did hinder.'

Bible in Basic English

A curse is on you, teachers of the law! for you have taken away the key of knowledge: you did not go in yourselves, and you got in the way of those who were going in.

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Cross references

“for”

Matthew 23:13 Malachi 2:7 John 9:24–34 John 7:47–52 Acts 5:40 Luke 19:39

Matthew 23:13 · BSB

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let in those who wish to enter.

Malachi 2:7 · BSB

For the lips of a priest should preserve knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, because he is the messenger of the LORD of Hosts.

John 9:24–34 · BSB

So a second time they called for the man who had been blind and said, “Give glory to God! We know that this man is a sinner.”

John 7:47–52 · BSB

“Have you also been deceived?” replied the Pharisees.

Acts 5:40 · BSB

At this, they yielded to Gamaliel. They called the apostles in and had them flogged. Then they ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and released them.

Luke 19:39 · BSB

But some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to Him, “Teacher, rebuke Your disciples!”

Also

Luke 11:45–46

Luke 11:45–46 · BSB

One of the experts in the law told Him, “Teacher, when You say these things, You insult us as well.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

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

53As Jesus went on from there, the scribes and Pharisees began to oppose Him bitterly and to ply Him with questions about many things,

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