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Luke 11:52-54

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11:52 Woe to you experts in religious law! You have taken away 1  the key to knowledge! You did not go in yourselves, and you hindered 2  those who were going in.”

11:53 When he went out from there, the experts in the law 3  and the Pharisees began to oppose him bitterly, 4  and to ask him hostile questions 5  about many things, 11:54 plotting against 6  him, to catch 7  him in something he might say.

1 sn You have taken away the key to knowledge is another stinging rebuke. They had done the opposite of what they were trying to do.

2 tn Or “you tried to prevent.”

3 tn Or “the scribes.” See the note on the phrase “experts in the law” in 5:21.

4 tn Or “terribly.”

5 tn For this term see L&N 33.183.

6 tn Grk “lying in ambush against,” but this is a figurative extension of that meaning.

7 tn This term was often used in a hunting context (BDAG 455 s.v. θηρεύω; L&N 27.30). Later examples of this appear in Luke 20.



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