Lesson 4380)(01-29-23) Luke 11:45-52
“Then answered one of the lawyers, and said unto him, Master, thus saying thou reproachest us also. And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers. Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres. Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute: That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation; From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias which perished between the altar and the temple: verily I say unto you, It shall be required of this generation. Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.”
In today’s quote, Jesus condemned the lawyers for their role in burdening the Jewish hierarchy with legalistic interpretations of the law, their hypocritical actions, and their failure to understand and convey the true essence of God's teachings. He held them accountable for perpetuating a cycle of rejecting and harming God's messengers, and for obstructing others from gaining spiritual knowledge and understanding.~
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