Luke 11:45

One of the lawyers. This distinctive detail of the narrative in Luke does not appear in the corresponding passage in Matt. 23:27. The “lawyers” were the “scribes.” Writing for Gentiles who might misunderstand the technical Hebrew meaning attached to the word “scribe,” Luke substitutes the term “lawyer.”

Thou reproachest us also. Most of the scribes were Pharisees. The Pharisees constituted a religious sect; the scribes, or “lawyers,” were the professional expositors of the law. In the corresponding passage in Matt. 23 Jesus addresses both Pharisees and scribes from the first. This is another indication that Luke here records an incident that took place upon another occasion than that of Matthew, in spite of the great similarity between the two accounts (see on v. 37).