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Luke 11:43-50 New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE)

43. Woe to you Pharisees! You love the seat of honor in synagogues and greetings in marketplaces.

44. Woe to you! You are like unseen graves over which people unknowingly walk.”

45. Then one of the scholars of the law said to him in reply, “Teacher, by saying this you are insulting us too.”

46. And he said, “Woe also to you scholars of the law! You impose on people burdens hard to carry, but you yourselves do not lift one finger to touch them.

47. Woe to you! You build the memorials of the prophets whom your ancestors killed.

48. Consequently, you bear witness and give consent to the deeds of your ancestors, for they killed them and you do the building.

49. Therefore, the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send to them prophets and apostles; some of them they will kill and persecute’

50. in order that this generation might be charged with the blood of all the prophets shed since the foundation of the world,

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