Luke 11:38
And the Pharisee began to say, thinking within himself, why he was not washed before dinner.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
And when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had not first washed before dinner.
In Context
Cross References
Matthew 15:2Why do thy disciples trangress the tradition of the ancients? For they wash not their hands when they eat bread.
John 3:25And there arose a question between some of John's disciples and the Jews concerning purification:
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 →