Woes to Scribes and Pharisees
(Luke 11:37–54)
Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to His disciples: Luk 12:1Luk 20:45-46Mat 15:10-20Luk 12:57Mrk 12:38-39Mrk 7:14 “The scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat. Luk 20:46Mrk 12:38Mal 2:7Ezr 7:25Ezr 7:6Neh 8:4-8 So practice and observe everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach. 2Ti 3:5Rom 2:19-24Tit 1:16Act 5:29Rom 13:12Ch 30:12Deu 17:9-12Mat 21:30 They tie up heavy, burdensome loads 1and lay them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them. Luk 11:46Act 15:10Gal 6:13Mat 11:28-30Mat 23:23Rev 2:24Act 15:28
All their deeds are done for men to see. They broaden their phylacteries and lengthen their tassels. Jhn 12:43Mat 6:1-16Deu 6:8Jhn 5:44Luk 16:15Php 2:3Num 15:38-39Deu 22:12 They love the places of honor at banquets, the chief seats in the synagogues, 3Jn 1:9Luk 11:43-54Mrk 12:38-39Jas 2:1-4Luk 14:7-11Pro 25:6-7Luk 20:46-47Mat 20:21 the greetings in the marketplaces, and the title of ‘Rabbi’ by which they are addressed. 2 Jhn 1:38Jhn 1:49Jhn 20:16Jhn 3:2Jhn 3:26Jhn 6:25Mat 23:8Mrk 10:51
But you are not to be called ‘Rabbi,’ for you have one Teacher, and you are all brothers. Jas 3:1Luk 22:321Co 1:12-131Pe 5:3Rev 1:9Mat 17:5Mat 23:10Col 1:1-2 And do not call anyone on earth your father, for you have one Father, who is in heaven. 1Jn 3:1Heb 12:9Mal 1:6Job 32:21-22Rom 8:14-17Mat 6:8-9Mat 7:111Co 4:15 Nor are you to be called instructors, for you have one Instructor, the Christ. The greatest among you shall be your servant. 1Co 9:19Gal 5:13Jhn 13:14-15Mrk 10:43-442Co 4:5Luk 22:26-27Php 2:5-8Mat 20:26-27 For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted. 1Pe 5:5Jas 4:6Luk 14:11Pro 29:23Luk 18:14Mat 18:4Pro 15:33Mat 5:3
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. 3 Luk 11:52Mat 23:29Mat 23:23Mat 23:27Zec 11:172Ti 4:15Act 8:12Ti 3:8
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You traverse land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell 4as you are. Act 13:10Act 13:43Eph 2:3Act 14:2Gal 4:17Gal 6:12Jhn 8:44Act 17:5-6
Woe to you, blind guides! You say, ‘If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.’ Mat 15:14Jas 5:12Mat 23:17Mat 23:24Mat 5:33-35Isa 56:10-11Jhn 9:39-41Mat 15:5-6 You blind fools! Which is greater: the gold, or the temple that makes it sacred? Mat 23:19Num 16:38-39Exo 30:26-29Psa 94:8 And you say, ‘If anyone swears by the altar, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gift on it, he is bound by his oath.’ You blind men! Which is greater: the gift, or the altar that makes it sacred? Exo 29:37Exo 30:29 So then, he who swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it. And he who swears by the temple swears by it and by the One who dwells in it. 1Ki 8:13Psa 26:82Ch 6:21Ki 8:272Ch 7:2Col 2:9Eph 2:22Psa 132:13-14 And he who swears by heaven swears by God’s throne and by the One who sits on it. Mat 5:34Isa 66:1Psa 11:4Act 7:49Rev 4:2-3
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You pay tithes of mint, dill, and cumin. But you have disregarded the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former. Luk 11:42Mic 6:8Hos 6:6Mat 9:13Mat 5:19-201Sa 15:22Pro 21:3Gal 5:22-23 You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel. 5 Mat 19:24Mat 27:6-8Luk 6:7-10Mat 15:2-6Jhn 18:28Mat 23:16Jhn 18:40Mat 7:4
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. Luk 11:39-40Mat 15:19-20Isa 28:7-8Mrk 7:4-13 Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, 6 so that the outside may become clean as well. 2Co 7:1Heb 10:22Jas 4:8Ezk 18:31Isa 55:7Luk 6:45Mat 12:33Jer 13:27
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside, but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of impurity. Luk 11:44Act 23:3Num 19:16Isa 58:1-2 In the same way, on the outside you appear to be righteous, but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness. Luk 16:15Mat 23:5Psa 51:61Sa 16:7Heb 4:12-13Mat 12:34-35Mat 15:19-20Mrk 7:21-23
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous. Luk 11:47-48Act 2:29 And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’ Jer 2:30Mat 21:35-36Mat 23:34-352Ch 36:15 So you testify against yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets. Act 7:51-521Th 2:15-16Job 15:5-6Jos 24:22Luk 19:22Psa 64:8 Fill up, then, 7 the measure of the sin of your fathers. Gen 15:16Num 32:141Th 2:16Zec 5:6-11 You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape the sentence of hell? Mat 3:7Mat 12:34Luk 3:7Mat 5:22Gen 3:15Jhn 8:44Mat 21:34-35Psa 58:3-5
Because of this, I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and others you will flog in your synagogues and persecute in town after town. Mat 10:16-17Mat 13:52Col 1:28Act 13:1Luk 11:49-51Mat 10:23Mat 23:34-361Co 12:3-11 And so upon you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. 2Ch 24:20-22Heb 11:4Zec 1:1Gen 4:8Rev 18:24Jer 26:152Ki 21:162Ki 24:4 Truly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation. Mat 10:23Mat 24:34Luk 21:32-33Mrk 13:30-31Ezk 12:21-28
Lament over Jerusalem
(Luke 13:31–35)
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling! Luk 13:34-35Psa 91:4Rut 2:12Deu 32:11-12Psa 17:8Neh 9:26Pro 1:24-31Jer 6:16-17 Look, your house is left to you desolate. 8 Jer 22:5Luk 13:35Luk 21:241Ki 9:7Act 6:13-14Luk 19:43-44Luk 21:20Luk 21:6 For I tell you that you will not see Me again until you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.’ 9” Psa 118:26Mat 21:9Rom 11:25Hos 3:4Isa 40:9-11Jhn 8:21Jhn 8:24Luk 10:22-23