Luke 11:39
And the Lord said to him: Now you Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter; but your inside is full of rapine and iniquity.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
38And the Pharisee began to say, thinking within himself, why he was not washed before dinner.
40Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without, make also that which is within?
Cross References
2 Chronicles 25:2And he did what was good in the sight of the Lord: but yet not with a perfect heart.
Psalms 22:13Many calves have surrounded me: fat bulls have besieged me.
Proverbs 30:12A generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet are not washed from their filthiness.
Ezekiel 22:25There is a conspiracy of prophets in the midst thereof: like a lion that roareth and catcheth the prey, they have devoured souls, they have taken riches and hire, they have made many widows in the midst thereof.
Zephaniah 3:3Her princes are in the midst of her as roaring lions: her judges are evening wolves, they left nothing for the morning.
Matthew 12:33Either make the tree good and its fruit good: or make the tree evil, and its fruit evil. For by the fruit the tree is known.
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 →