Luke 11:39
And the Lord said to him, Now ye Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your interior is full of plundering and wickedness.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
38And when the Pharisee saw, he marveled that he did not first wash before dinner.
40Ye foolish men, did not he who made the outside also make the inside?
Cross References
2 Chronicles 25:2And he did that which was right in the eyes of LORD, but not with a perfect heart.
Psalms 22:13They gape upon me with their mouth, [as] a ravening and a roaring lion.
Proverbs 30:12There is a generation who are pure in their own eyes, and [yet] are not washed from their filthiness.
Ezekiel 22:25There is a conspiracy by her prophets in the midst of it, like a roaring lion ravening the prey. They have devoured souls. They take treasure and precious things. They have made her widows many in the midst thereof.
Zephaniah 3:3Her rulers in the midst of her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing till the morrow.
Matthew 12:33Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt, for the tree is known by its fruit.
Matthew Henry on Luke 11:38-54
Woes Denounced on That Generation; The Pharisees and Lawyers Reproved. 37 And as he spake, a certain Pharisee besought him to dine with him: and he went in, and sat down to meat. 38 And when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had not first washed before dinner. 39 And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness. 40 Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also? 41… Read the whole commentary →