46 Then He said: “Woe also to you experts in the law! You load people with burdens(A) that are hard to carry, yet you yourselves don’t touch these burdens with one of your fingers.(B)

47 “Woe to you! You build monuments[a] to the prophets,(C) and your fathers killed(D) them. 48 Therefore, you are witnesses(E) that you approve[b](F) the deeds of your fathers, for they killed them, and you build their monuments.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 11:47 Or graves
  2. Luke 11:48 Lit witnesses and approve
  3. Luke 11:48 Other mss omit their monuments

46 And he said, “Woe to you (A)lawyers also! For (B)you load people with burdens hard to bear, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers. 47 (C)Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets whom your fathers killed. 48 (D)So you are witnesses and you (E)consent to the deeds of (F)your fathers, for they killed them, and you build their tombs.

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