Luke 11:45

One of the lawyers answered him, “Teacher, in saying this you insult us also.”

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WEBBE

One of the lawyers answered him, “Teacher, in saying this you insult us also.”

BSB

One of the experts in the law told Him, “Teacher, when You say these things, You insult us as well.”

KJV

Then answered one of the lawyers, and said unto him, Master, thus saying thou reproachest us also.

ASV

And one of the lawyers answering saith unto him, Teacher, in saying this thou reproachest us also.

BBE

And one of the teachers of the law, answering, said to him, Master, in saying this, you give a bad name to us as to them.

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Ἀποκριθεὶς Apokritheis Answering G611 δέ de now G1161 τις tis one G5100 τῶν tōn of the G3588 νομικῶν nomikōn lawyers G3544 λέγει legei says G3004 αὐτῷ autō to Him G846 διδάσκαλε didaskale Teacher G1320 ταῦτα tauta these things G3778 λέγων legōn saying G3004 καὶ kai also G2532 ἡμᾶς hēmas us G3165 ὑβρίζεις.¶ hubrizeis You insult G5195

The early church

(de con. Ev. lib. ii. c. 75.) Now all these things Matthew records to have been said after our Lord had come into Jerusalem. But Luke relates them here, when our Lord was yet on His journey to Jerusalem. From which they appear to me to be similar discourses, of which Matthew has given one, Luke the other.
Augustine of Hippo · d. 430Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
A reproof which exalts the meek is generally hateful to the proud man. When therefore our Saviour was blaming the Pharisees as men who were wandering far from the right path and fallen into unbecoming practices, the body of Lawyers were struck with consternation. Hence it is said, Then answered one of the Lawyers, and said unto him, Master, thus saying thou reproachest us also.
Cyril of Alexandria · d. 444Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
In what a grievous state is that conscience, which hearing the word of God thinks it a reproach against itself, and in the account of the punishment of the wicked perceives its own condemnation.
Bede · d. 735Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)
Now the Lawyers were different from the Pharisees. For the Pharisees being separated from the rest had the appearance of a religious sect; but those skilled in the Law were the Scribes and Doctors who solved legal questions.
Theophylact of Ohrid · d. 1107Catena Aurea (Aquinas, 1274)

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 37–54

We should all look to our hearts, that they may be cleansed and new-created; and while we attend to the great things of the law and of the gospel, we must not neglect the smallest matter God has appointed. When any wait to catch something out of our mouths, that they may insnare us, O Lord, give us thy prudence and thy patience, and disappoint their evil purposes. Furnish us with such meekness and patience that we may glory in reproaches, for Christ's sake, and that thy Holy Spirit may rest upon us.

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Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.