Luke 11:28-54 And he said, 'Yea, rather, happy those hearing the word of God, and keeping it!'

RYLT⁽ⁱ⁾ ²⁸ And he said, 'Yea, rather, happy those hearing the word of God, and keeping it!' ²⁹ And the multitudes crowding together upon him, he began to say, 'This generation is evil, a sign it does seek after, and a sign shall not be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet, ³⁰ for as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so also shall the Son of Man be to this generation. ³¹ 'A queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and shall condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and lo, greater than Solomon here! ³² 'Men of Nineveh shall stand up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it, because they reformed at the proclamation of Jonah; and lo, greater than Jonah here! ³³ 'And no one having lighted a lamp, does put it in a secret place, nor under the measure, but on the lamp-stand, that those coming in may behold the light. ³⁴ 'The lamp of the body is the eye, when then your eye may be simple, your whole body also is lightened; and when it may be evil, your body also is darkened; ³⁵ take heed, then, lest the light that is in you be darkness; ³⁶ if then your whole body is lightened, not having any part darkened, the whole shall be lightened, as when the lamp by the brightness may give you light.' ³⁷ And in his speaking, a certain Pharisee was asking him that he might dine with him, and having gone in, he reclined (at meat), ³⁸ and the Pharisee having seen, did wonder that he did not first baptize himself before the dinner. ³⁹ And the Lord said unto him, 'Now do ye, the Pharisees, the outside of the cup and of the plate make clean, but your inward part is full of rapine and wickedness; ⁴⁰ unthinking! did not He who made the outside also the inside make? ⁴¹ But what you have give you as alms, and, lo, all things are clean to you. ⁴² 'But woo to you, the Pharisees, because you tithe the mint, and the rue, and every herb, and you pass by the judgment, and the love of God; these things it is beneficial to do, and those not to be neglecting. ⁴³ 'Woo to you, the Pharisees, because you love the first seats in the synagogues, and the salutations in the market-places. ⁴⁴ 'Woo to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you are as the unseen tombs, and the men walking above have not known.' ⁴⁵ And one of the lawyers answering, said to him, 'Teacher, these things saying, us also you do insult;' ⁴⁶ and he said, 'And to you, the lawyers, woo! because you burden men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves with one of your fingers do not touch the burdens. ⁴⁷ 'Woo to you, because you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. ⁴⁸ Then do you testify, and are well pleased with the works of your fathers, because they indeed killed them, and you do build their tombs; ⁴⁹ because of this also the wisdom of God said: I will send to them prophets, and apostles, and some of them they shall kill and persecute, ⁵⁰ that the blood of all the prophets, that is being poured forth from the foundation of the world, may be required from this generation; ⁵¹ from the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, who perished between the altar and the house; yes, I say to you, It shall be required from this generation. ⁵² 'Woo to you, the lawyers, because you took away the key of the knowledge; yourselves you did not enter; and those coming in, you did hinder.' ⁵³ And in his speaking these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began fearfully to urge and to press him to speak about many things, ⁵⁴ laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.