Luke 11:54 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

Luke 11:54

52 ^a“Woe to you lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge. You did not enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in you hindered.”

53 ¹And as He said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to assail Him vehemently, and to cross-examine Him about many things,

54 lying in wait for Him,¹ and ^aseeking to catch Him in something He might say,² that they might accuse Him.

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Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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Exceedingly vivid and affecting. They were stung to the quick—and can we wonder?—yet had not materials for the charge they were preparing against Him.

provoke him, etc.—"to harass Him with questions."

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