Discovery BoxLuke 11:52-54 
Context11:52 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.
