11:41 - But rather buy the things you have bought; and you will see all things are clean for you.
11:42 - Woe is you, Pharisees! for you give mint and all kinds of herbs, and ignore judgement and the love of God: these you should have paid attention to instead and ignored the herbs.
11:43 - Sadness unto you, Pharisees! because you love the highest and most powerful in the synagogues, and conversations with the elite in the markets.
11:44 - You scribes and Pharisees are in big trouble. You are hypocrites. You are like underground graves that are indistinguishable from aboveground, and people just walk over without even knowing.
11:45 - Then one of the lawyers said to him, Teacher, by saying this, you’re criticizing us too.
11:46 - And he said: You’re in trouble too, you lawyers! You are responsible for putting unbearable burdens upon people and not helping them in any way.
11:47 - Shame on you! You have mocked the prophets by building their tombs and your fathers have killed them by mocking their words.
11:48 - You certainly testify that you endorse the things your ancestors did, because they killed them and you build their tombs.
11:49 - Also said the wisdom of God, I will send prophets and apostles some of whom will be killed and prosecuted:
11:50 - The lives of all the people who prophesied about God and tried to get people believe, all their blood could be something required of the present group of people.
11:51 - Truly I tell you; this generation must do it — everyone, from the line of Abel to the line of Zacharias.
11:52 - And you, the lawyers, took away the key of knowledge; didn’t use it yourselves and interfered with everyone else that tried.
11:53 - As he spoke to them, the religious leaders began to egg him on, hoping to provoke him to say things he might regret:
11:54 - They were lying in wait, for him, hoping to catch him saying something that they could use against him.
