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Luke 11:52

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.

KJV

οὐαὶ ὑμῖν τοῖς νομικοῖς, ὅτι ἤρατε τὴν κλεῖδα τῆς γνώσεως· αὐτοὶ οὐκ εἰσήλθατε καὶ τοὺς εἰσερχομένους ἐκωλύσατε.

Greek NT

Væ vobis, legisperitis, quia tulistis clavem scientiæ : ipsi non introistis, et eos qui introibant, prohibuistis.

Vulgate

Woe unto you lawyers! for ye took away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.

ASV

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.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

13 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αἴρω
airo
verb · 101×
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
γνῶσις
gnosis
noun · 29×
εἰσέρχομαι
eiserchomai
verb · 195×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
κλείς
kleis
noun · 6×
κωλύω
koluo
verb · 23×
νομικός
nomikos
adjective · 9×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
οὐαί
ouai
noun · 46×
o
article · 19778×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×
ὑμεῖς
umeis
pronoun · 1828×

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§579This principle of integral observance of the Law not only in letter but in spirit was dear to the Pharisees. By giving Israel this principle they had led many Jews of Jesus' time to an extreme religious zeal.334 This zeal, were it not to lapse into "hypocritical" casuistry,335 could only prepare the People for the unprecedented intervention of God through the perfect fulfilment…

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 9:12 — If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ.
  • Acts 4:17 — But that it spread no further among the people, let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name.
  • Acts 5:40 — And to him they agreed: and when they had called the apostles, and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.
  • Acts 13:10 — And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
  • Ezek 34:18 — Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but ye must foul the resi
  • Isa 10:1 — Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;
  • Jer 2:8 — The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not pr
  • John 7:47 — Then answered them the Pharisees, Are ye also deceived?
  • John 9:24 — Then again called they the man that was blind, and said unto him, Give God the praise: we know that this man is a sinner.
  • John 11:48 — If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation.
  • Luke 11:45 — Then answered one of the lawyers, and said unto him, Master, thus saying thou reproachest us also.
  • Luke 11:46 — 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.
  • Luke 19:39 — And some of the Pharisees from among the multitude said unto him, Master, rebuke thy disciples.
  • Mal 2:7 — For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.
  • Mal 3:2 — But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap:
  • Matt 22:35 — Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,
  • Matt 23:13 — But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
  • Matt 23:13 — But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
  • Rev 22:19 — And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in thi