Luke 11:43

Woe unto you, Pharisees, for ye love the first seat in the synagogues and salutations in the market-places.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

Woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye love the uppermost seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets.

In Context

42But woe unto you, Pharisees, for ye pay tithes of mint and rue and every herb, and pass by the judgment and the love of God: these ye ought to have done, and not have left those aside.

44Woe unto you, for ye are as the sepulchres which appear not, and the men walking over them do not know [it].

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Cross References

Matthew 23:6and love the chief place in feasts and the first seats in the synagogues,

Luke 14:7And he spoke a parable to those that were invited, remarking how they chose out the first places, saying to them,

Romans 12:10as to brotherly love, kindly affectioned towards one another: as to honour, each taking the lead in paying it to the other:

James 2:2for if there come unto your synagogue a man with a gold ring in splendid apparel, and a poor man also come in in vile apparel,

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 →

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