Luke 11:39-54 ▼

39 And the Lorde said vnto him: Now do ye pharisees make cleane the outsyde of the cuppe, and the platter, but the inward part is full of your rauenyng and wickednesse.

40 Ye fooles, dyd not he that made that whiche is without, make that which is within also?

41 But rather geue almes of those thynges which are within, and beholde all thynges are cleane vnto you.

42 But wo vnto you pharisees: for ye tithe mint & rue, and al maner hearbes, and passe ouer iudgement, and the loue of God: These ought ye to haue done, and yet not to leaue the other vndone.

43 Wo vnto you pharisees: for ye loue the vppermost seates in ye synagogues, and greetynges in the markettes.

44 Wo vnto you scribes and pharisees, ye hypocrites: for ye are as graues which appeare not, and the men that walke ouer them, are not ware of them.

45 Then aunswered one of the lawyers, and sayde vnto him: Maister, thus saying, thou puttest vs to rebuke also.

46 And he sayde, Wo vnto you also ye lawyers: for ye lade me with burthens greeuous to be borne, and ye your selues touche not ye burthens with one of your fyngers.

47 Wo vnto you, ye buylde the sepulchres of the prophetes, and your fathers kylled them.

48 Truely, ye beare witnesse that ye alowe the deedes of your fathers: for they kylled them, and ye buylde their sepulchres.

49 Therfore saide the wisedome of God, I wyl sende them prophetes and apostles, and some of them they shall slaye and persecute:

50 That the blood of all the prophetes, which is shedde, from the foundation of the worlde, may be required of this generation,

51 From the blood of Abel, vnto ye blood of Zacharie, whiche perished betwene the aulter & the temple: Ueryly I saye vnto you, it shalbe required of this nation.

52 Wo vnto you lawyers: for ye haue taken away the keye of knowledge, ye entred not in your selues, and them that came in, ye forbad.

53 When he thus spake vnto them, the lawyers & the pharisees began to vrge hym vehemently, and to prouoke hym to speake many thynges.

54 Laying wayte for hym, and sekyng to catche somethyng out of his mouth, wherby they myght accuse hym.