Jesus criticizes the Jewish lawyers for taking away the key of knowledge.

Woe to you lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge. You did not enter yourselves, and you hindered those who were entering. - Luke 11:52

“You have taken away the key to knowledge,” i.e. the knowledge of God contained in the OT Scriptures which the scribes were supposed to unlock for God’s people

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