Luke 11:52 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵²Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.

Luke 11:52 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Matthew 23:13
But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
Malachi 2:7
For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.
Acts 4:17-18
But that it spread no further among the people, let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name. …
Luke 11:45-46
Then answered one of the lawyers, and said unto him, Master, thus saying thou reproachest us also. …
John 9:24-34
Then again called they the man that was blind, and said unto him, Give God the praise: we know that this man is a sinner. …

Topics

Blind Blindness Conceit Consistency Deceit Deception Disease Dishonesty

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 37-54)

Christ here says many of those things to a Pharisee and his guests, in a private conversation at table, which he afterwards said in a public discourse in the temple (Matt. 23:1-39); for what he said in public and private was of a piece. He would not say that in a corner which he durst not repeat and stand to in the great congregation; nor would he give those reproofs to any sort of sinners in gene…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 52)

52. key of knowledge--not the key to open knowledge, but knowledge, the only key to open heaven. In Mt 23:13, they are accused of shutting heaven; here of taking away the key, which was worse. A right knowledge of God’s Word is eternal life (Joh 17:3); but this they took away from the people, substituting for it their wretched traditions.