45 One of the [a](A)lawyers *said to Him in reply, “Teacher, when You say these things, You insult us too.” 46 But He said, “Woe to you (B)lawyers as well! For (C)you load people with burdens that are hard to bear, [b]while you yourselves will not even [c]touch the burdens with one of your fingers. 47 (D)Woe to you! For you build the [d]tombs of the prophets, and it was your fathers who killed them. 48 So you are witnesses and you approve of the deeds of your fathers; because it was they who killed them, and you build their [e]tombs. 49 For this reason also, (E)the wisdom of God said, ‘(F)I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill, and some they will [f]persecute, 50 so that the blood of all the prophets, shed (G)since the foundation of the world, may be charged [g]against this generation,

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 11:45 I.e., experts in the Mosaic Law
  2. Luke 11:46 Lit and
  3. Luke 11:46 I.e., to assist them
  4. Luke 11:47 Or monuments to
  5. Luke 11:48 Or monuments
  6. Luke 11:49 Or drive out
  7. Luke 11:50 Or to

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