45 Then answered one of the Law- yers, and said unto him, Mastcgr, thus saying thou reproachest us also.
46 And he said, Woe unto you also, ye Lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one ofyour fingers.
47 Woe unto you ! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
48 Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers : for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres.
49 Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they ^all slay and persecute :
50 That the blood of all the proph- ets, which was shed from the founda-
tion of the world, may be required of this generation ;
51 From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, which perished between the altar and the temple : verily I say unto you, It shall be re- quired of this generation.
52 Woe unto you. Lawyers ! for ye have taken away the key of know- ledge : ye enter not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.
53 And as he said these things unto them, the Scribes and the Pharisees began to urge him vehemently, and to provoke nim to speak of many things :
54 Laying wait for him, and seek- ing to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.
The passage before us is an example of our Lord Jesus Christ's faithful dealing with the souls of men. We see Him without fear or favour rebuking the sins of the Jewish expounders of God's law. That false charity which calls it " unkind " to say that any one is in error, finds no encouragement in the language used by our Lord. He called things by their right names. He knew that acute diseases need severe remedies. He would