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46 And the One said, “Woe to you Law-experts also, because you burden people with hard-to-bear burdens[a], and you do not touch[b] the burdens with one of your fingers. 47 Woe to you, because you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them! 48 Therefore you are witnesses and are giving-approval to the works of your fathers, because they killed them— and you build their tombs.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 11:46 Jesus is referring to their traditions, their man-made rules of conduct.
  2. Luke 11:46 That is, to carry them yourselves. Many rules that burdened the common working person addressed issues that never arose in the life of a priest.

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