Luke 11:29-54

Then, as the crowds were quickly gathering, he began to say: "This generation is a wicked generation: it seeks a sign. But no sign will be given to it, except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For just as Jonah was a sign to the Ninevites, so also will the Son of man be to this generation. The queen of the South will rise up, at the judgment, with the men of this generation, and she will condemn them. For she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon. And behold, more than Solomon is here. The men of Nineveh will rise up, at the judgment, with this generation, and they will condemn it. For at the preaching of Jonah, they repented. And behold, more than Jonah is here. No one lights a candle and places it in hiding, nor under a bushel basket, but upon a lampstand, so that those who enter may see the light. Your eye is the light of your body. If your eye is wholesome, your entire body will be filled with light. But if it is wicked, then even your body will be darkened. Therefore, take care, lest the light that is within you become darkness. So then, if your entire body becomes filled with light, not having any part in darkness, then it will be entirely light, and, like a shining lamp, it will illuminate you." And as he was speaking, a certain Pharisee asked him to eat with him. And going inside, he sat down to eat. But the Pharisee began to say, thinking within himself: "Why might it be that he has not washed before eating?" And the Lord said to him: "You Pharisees today clean what is outside the cup and the plate, but what is inside of you is full of plunder and iniquity. Fools! Did not he who made what is outside, indeed also make what is inside? Yet truly, give what is above as alms, and behold, all things are clean for you. But woe to you, Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, but you ignore judgment and the charity of God. But these things you ought to have done, without omitting the others. Woe to you, Pharisees! For you love the first seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the marketplace. Woe to you! For you are like graves that are not noticeable, so that men walk over them without realizing it." Then one of the experts in the law, in response, said to him, "Teacher, in saying these things, you bring an insult against us as well." So he said: "And woe to you experts in the law! For you weigh men down with burdens which they are not able to bear, but you yourselves do not touch the weight with even one of your fingers. Woe to you, who build the tombs of the prophets, while it is your fathers who killed them! Clearly, you are testifying that you consent to the actions of your fathers, because even though they killed them, you build their sepulchers. Because of this also, the wisdom of God said: I will send to them Prophets and Apostles, and some of these they will kill or persecute, so that the blood of all the Prophets, which has been shed since the foundation of the world, may be charged against this generation: from the blood of Abel, even to the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary. So I say to you: it will be required of this generation! Woe to you, experts in the law! For you have taken away the key of knowledge. You yourselves do not enter, and those who were entering, you would have prohibited." Then, while he was saying these things to them, the Pharisees and the experts in the law began to insist strongly that he restrain his mouth about many things. And waiting to ambush him, they sought something from his mouth that they might seize upon, in order to accuse him.