What does Luke 11:54 mean?

Luke 11:54 highlights themes such as faith and obedience when read in context.

How should I apply Luke 11:54 today?

Read the surrounding passage, compare related cross references, and turn the verse into a short prayer and concrete action.

Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.

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.

53And as he said these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things:

54Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.

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