Luke 11:53
 Luke 11:53 
New International Version (©2011)
When Jesus went outside, the Pharisees and the teachers of the law began to oppose him fiercely and to besiege him with questions,

New Living Translation (©2007)
As Jesus was leaving, the teachers of religious law and the Pharisees became hostile and tried to provoke him with many questions.

English Standard Version (©2001)
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,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
When He left there, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be very hostile and to question Him closely on many subjects,

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And as he said these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things:

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
When He left there, the scribes and the Pharisees began to oppose Him fiercely and to cross-examine Him about many things;

International Standard Version (©2012)
As Jesus was leaving, the scribes and the Pharisees began to oppose him fiercely, interrogating him about many things.

NET Bible (©2006)
When he went out from there, the experts in the law and the Pharisees began to oppose him bitterly, and to ask him hostile questions about many things,

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
And when he had said these things to them, the Scribes and Pharisees began to be offended at them and they were angered and they disparaged his words.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
When Jesus left, the scribes and the Pharisees held a terrible grudge against him. They questioned him about many things

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And as he said these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to oppose him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things:

American King James Version
And as he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things:

American Standard Version
And when he was come out from thence, the scribes and the Pharisees began to press upon him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And as he was saying these things to them, the Pharisees and the lawyers began violently to urge him, and to oppress his mouth about many things,

Darby Bible Translation
And as he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to press him urgently, and to make him speak of many things;

English Revised Version
And when he was come out from thence, the scribes and the Pharisees began to press upon him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things;

Webster's Bible Translation
And as he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge him vehemently, and to solicit him to speak of many things;

Weymouth New Testament
After He had left the house, the Scribes and Pharisees commenced a vehement attempt to entangle Him and make Him give off-hand answers on numerous points,

World English Bible
As he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be terribly angry, and to draw many things out of him;

Young's Literal Translation
And in his speaking these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began fearfully to urge and to press him to speak about many things,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

11:37-54 We should all look to our hearts, that they may be cleansed and new-created; and while we attend to the great things of the law and of the gospel, we must not neglect the smallest matter God has appointed. When any wait to catch something out of our mouths, that they may insnare us, O Lord, give us thy prudence and thy patience, and disappoint their evil purposes. Furnish us with such meekness and patience that we may glory in reproaches, for Christ's sake, and that thy Holy Spirit may rest upon us.


Pulpit Commentary

Verse 53. - And as he said these things unto them. The older authorities here, instead of these words, read, and when he was gone out from thence. Thus, after uttering the last "woe," Jesus appears abruptly to have risen and left the house of his Pharisee entertainers. A crowd of angry men, composed of scribes and lawyers and friends of the Pharisee party, appear to have followed the Galilaean Teacher, whose words just spoken had publicly shown the estimation in which he held the great schools of religious thought which then in great measure guided public Jewish opinion. From henceforth there could be only one end to the unequal combat. The bold outspoken Teacher must, at all hazards, be put out of the way.


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And as he said these things unto them,.... Denounced the above woes upon them, charging them with the above crimes, and threatening them with divine vengeance:

the Scribes and Pharisees began to urge him vehemently; to fall upon him with their tongues, and express great rage, wrath, and virulence against him:

and to provoke him to speak of many things; they put questions to him, and urged him to answer them, and did all they could to irritate him to say things that they could improve against him, to draw words out of his mouth, and then wrest and pervert them.


Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

53, 54. Exceedingly vivid and affecting. They were stung to the quick—and can we wonder?—yet had not materials for the charge they were preparing against Him.

provoke him, &c.—"to harass Him with questions."


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Woes to Pharisees and Experts in Law
52Woe to you, lawyers! for you have taken away the key of knowledge: you entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in you hindered. 53And as he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things: 54Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.

Luke 11:52 "Woe to you experts in the law, because you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering."
Luke 11:54 waiting to catch him in something he might say.
Acts 26:9 "I too was convinced that I ought to do all that was possible to oppose the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
2 Corinthians 8:6 So we urged Titus, just as he had earlier made a beginning, to bring also to completion this act of grace on your part.