The second woe against the lawyers — you have taken away the key to knowledge, you yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering — identifies them as gatekeepers who locked the kingdom's entrance. The knowledge in view is the knowledge that opens the Scriptures to reveal Jesus; their interpretive tradition functioned as a lock on the door that should have led their people to the Messiah.

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