Luke 7:30
However, the Pharisees and the experts in religious law rejected God’s purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John.)
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- Matt 22:35 : 35 And one of them, an expert in religious law, asked him a question to test him:
- Luke 13:34 : 34 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! How often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would have none of it!
- Acts 20:27 : 27 For I did not hold back from announcing to you the whole purpose of God.
- Rom 10:21 : 21 But about Israel he says,“All day long I held out my hands to this disobedient and stubborn people!”
- 2 Cor 6:1 : 1 God’s Suffering Servants Now because we are fellow workers, we also urge you not to receive the grace of God in vain.
- Gal 2:21 : 21 I do not set aside God’s grace, because if righteousness could come through the law, then Christ died for nothing!
- Eph 1:11 : 11 In Christ we too have been claimed as God’s own possession, since we were predestined according to the purpose of him who accomplishes all things according to the counsel of his will
- Jer 8:8 : 8 How can you say,“We are wise! We have the law of the LORD”? The truth is, those who teach it have used their writings to make it say what it does not really mean.
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29 (Now all the people who heard this, even the tax collectors, acknowledged God’s justice, because they had been baptized with John’s baptism.
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31 “To what then should I compare the people of this generation, and what are they like?
32 They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling out to one another,‘We played the flute for you, yet you did not dance; we wailed in mourning, yet you did not weep.’
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1 Breaking Human Traditions Now the Pharisees and some of the experts in the law who came from Jerusalem gathered around him.
2 And they saw that some of Jesus’ disciples ate their bread with unclean hands, that is, unwashed.
3 (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they perform a ritual washing, holding fast to the tradition of the elders.
4 And when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. They hold fast to many other traditions: the washing of cups, pots, kettles, and dining couches.)
5 The Pharisees and the experts in the law asked him,“Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with unwashed hands?”
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7 They worship me in vain, teaching as doctrine the commandments of men.’
8 Having no regard for the command of God, you hold fast to human tradition.”
9 He also said to them,“You neatly reject the commandment of God in order to set up your tradition.
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6 and he was baptizing them in the Jordan River as they confessed their sins.
7 But when he saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them,“You offspring of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
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2 (although Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples were),
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47 Then the Pharisees answered,“You haven’t been deceived too, have you?
48 None of the members of the ruling council or the Pharisees have believed in him, have they?
49 But this rabble who do not know the law are accursed!”
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30 John’s baptism– was it from heaven or from people? Answer me.”
31 They discussed with one another, saying,“If we say,‘From heaven,’ he will say,‘Then why did you not believe him?’
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45 One of the experts in religious law answered him,“Teacher, when you say these things you insult us too.”
46 But Jesus replied,“Woe to you experts in religious law as well! You load people down with burdens difficult to bear, yet you yourselves refuse to touch the burdens with even one of your fingers!
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25 Where did John’s baptism come from? From heaven or from people?” They discussed this among themselves, saying,“If we say,‘From heaven,’ he will say,‘Then why did you not believe him?’
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32 For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him. But the tax collectors and prostitutes did believe. Although you saw this, you did not later change your minds and believe him.
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38 The Pharisee was astonished when he saw that Jesus did not first wash his hands before the meal.
39 But the Lord said to him,“Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.
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24 (Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.)
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52 Woe to you experts in religious law! You have taken away the key to knowledge! You did not go in yourselves, and you hindered those who were going in.”
53 When he went out from there, the experts in the law and the Pharisees began to oppose him bitterly, and to ask him hostile questions about many things,
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52 Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute? They killed those who foretold long ago the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become!
53 You received the law by decrees given by angels, but you did not obey it.”
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4 John’s baptism– was it from heaven or from people?”
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30 they did not comply with my advice, they spurned all my rebuke.
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1 Do Not Judge“Do not judge so that you will not be judged.
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43 For they loved praise from men more than praise from God.
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7 They want to be teachers of the law, but they do not understand what they are saying or the things they insist on so confidently.
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13 Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like this.”
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11 “But they refused to pay attention, turning away stubbornly and stopping their ears so they could not hear.