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Gospel for Thursday of the 28th Week in Ordinary Time II

Luke 11:47-54

Summary: Jesus condemns the Pharisees for honoring the prophets their ancestors killed and warns that their generation will be held responsible. He also rebukes the scholars for blocking access to knowledge and preventing others from finding the truth.

Gospel Acclamation: I am the way and the truth and the life, says the Lord; no one comes to the Father except through me. (John 14:6)

Woe to Those Who Reject God's Prophets

The Lord said: “Woe to you who build the memorials of the prophets whom your fathers killed. Consequently, you bear witness and give consent to the deeds of your ancestors, for they killed them and you do the building.

Therefore, the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send to them prophets and Apostles; some of them they will kill and persecute’ in order that this generation might be charged with the blood of all the prophets shed since the foundation of the world, from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah who died between the altar and the temple building.

Yes, I tell you, this generation will be charged with their blood!

Woe to you, scholars of the law! You have taken away the key of knowledge. You yourselves did not enter and you stopped those trying to enter.”

When Jesus left, the scribes and Pharisees began to act with hostility toward him and to interrogate him about many things, for they were plotting to catch him at something he might say.

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