Luke 6:39
Now he told them another comparison: “How can the blind lead the blind? Would they not both fall into a pit?
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40The disciple is not above his teacher. But each one will be perfected, if he is like his teacher.
Cross References
Isaiah 9:16And those who deceitfully praise this people, and those who are praised, will be thrown down violently.
Jeremiah 6:15They were confounded, because they committed an abomination. Or rather, they were not confounded with shame, because they did not know how to blush. For this reason, they will fall among those who are being destroyed. In the time of their visitation, they will fall, says the Lord.”
Jeremiah 14:15For this reason, thus says the Lord about the prophets who prophesy in my name, whom I have not sent, who say: ‘Sword and famine will not be in this land.’ By sword and famine those prophets will be consumed.
Zechariah 11:15And the Lord said to me: Still they are to you the equipment of a foolish shepherd.
Matthew 23:16Woe to you, blind guides, who say: ‘Whoever will have sworn by the temple, it is nothing. But whoever will have sworn by the gold of the temple is obligated.’
Romans 2:19you become confident within yourself that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,
Matthew Henry on Luke 6:38-49
Exhortations to Justice and Sincerity. 37 Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven: 38 Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again. 39 And he spake a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch? 40 The disciple is not above… Read the whole commentary →