Luk 11:37-54 | ESV | STEP | While Jesus was speaking , a Pharisee asked him to dine with him , so he went in and reclined at table .

37 While Jesus ^{▼▼Greek he} was speaking, ^ba Pharisee asked him to dine with him, so he went in and reclined at table. 38 The Pharisee was astonished to see ^cthat he did not first wash before dinner. 39 And the Lord said to him, ^d“Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside you are full of ^egreed and wickedness. 40 ^fYou fools! ^gDid not he who made the outside make the inside also? 41 But ^hgive as alms those things that are within, and behold, ⁱeverything is clean for you.

42 ^j“But woe to you Pharisees! For ^kyou tithe mint and rue and every herb, and neglect ^ljustice and ^mthe love of God. ⁿThese you ought to have done, without neglecting the others. 43 Woe to you Pharisees! For ^oyou love the best seat in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces. 44 Woe to you! ^pFor you are like unmarked graves, and people walk over them without knowing it.”

45 One of ^qthe lawyers answered him, “Teacher, in saying these things you insult us also.” 46 And he said, “Woe to you ^rlawyers also! For ^syou load people with burdens hard to bear, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers. 47 ^tWoe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets whom your fathers killed. 48 ^uSo you are witnesses and you ^vconsent to the deeds of ^wyour fathers, for they killed them, and you build their tombs. 49 Therefore also ^xthe Wisdom of God said, ^y‘I will send them ^zprophets and apostles, ^aasome of whom they will ^abkill and persecute,’ 50 so that ^acthe blood of all the prophets, shed ^adfrom the foundation of the world, may be ^aecharged against this generation, 51 from the blood of ^afAbel to the blood of ^agZechariah, who perished between ^ahthe altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, it will be ^airequired of this generation. 52 Woe to you ^ajlawyers! ^akFor you have taken away the key of ^alknowledge. You ^amdid not enter yourselves, and you hindered those who were entering.”

53 As he went away from there, the scribes and the Pharisees began to press him hard and to provoke him to speak about many things, 54 ^anlying in wait for him, ^aoto catch him in something he might say.