Luke 11:53
Good News Translation
When Jesus left that place, the teachers of the Law and the Pharisees began to criticize him bitterly and ask him questions about many things,

New Revised Standard Version
When he went outside, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be very hostile toward him and to cross-examine him about many things,

Contemporary English Version
Jesus was about to leave, but the teachers and the Pharisees wanted to get even with him. They tried to make him say what he thought about other things,

New American Bible
When he left, the scribes and Pharisees began to act with hostility toward him and to interrogate him about 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,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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,

to urge.

Psalm 22:12,13 Many calves have surrounded me: fat bulls have besieged me. . . .

Isaiah 9:12 The Syrians from the east, and, the Philistines from the west: and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his indignation is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

to speak.

Luke 20:20,27 And being upon the watch, they sent spies, who should feign themselves just, that they might take hold of him in his words, that they might deliver him up to the authority and power of the governor. . . .

Jeremiah 18:18 And they said: Come, and let us invent devices against Jeremiah: for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet: come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us give no heed to all his words.

Jeremiah 20:10 For I heard the reproaches of many, and terror on every side: Persecute him, and let us persecute him: from all the men that were my familiars, and continued at my side: if by any means he may be deceived, and we may prevail against him, and be revenged on him.

1 Corinthians 13:5 Is not ambitious, seeketh not her own, is not provoked to anger, thinketh no evil:

Context
Woes to Religious Leaders
52Woe to you lawyers, for you have taken away the key of knowledge. You yourselves have not entered in: and those that were entering in, you have hindered. 53And 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, 54Lying in wait for him and seeking to catch something from his mouth, that they might accuse him.…
Cross References
Luke 11:52
Woe to you lawyers, for you have taken away the key of knowledge. You yourselves have not entered in: and those that were entering in, you have hindered.

Luke 11:54
Lying in wait for him and seeking to catch something from his mouth, that they might accuse him.

Acts 26:9
And I indeed did formerly think that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

2 Corinthians 8:6
Insomuch, that we desired Titus, that, as he had begun, so also he would finish among you this same grace.

Luke 11:52
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