Luke 6:39
And he spoke also to them a similitude: Can the blind lead the blind? do they not both fall into the ditch?
Douay-Rheims 1899
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In Context
40The disciple is not above his master: but every one shall be perfect, if he be as his master.
Cross References
Isaiah 9:16And they that call this people blessed, shall cause them to err: and they that are called blessed, shall be thrown down headlong.
Jeremiah 6:15They were confounded, because they commmitted abomination: yea, rather they were not confounded with confusion, and they knew not how to blush: wherefore they shall fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall fall down, saith the Lord.
Jeremiah 14:15Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that prophecy in my name, whom I did not send, that say: Sword and famine shall not be in this land: By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.
Zechariah 11:15And the Lord said to me: Take to thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd.
Matthew 23:16Woe to you blind guides, that say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but he that shall swear by the gold of the temple, is a debtor.
Romans 2:19Art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them that 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 →