Luke 11:43
Woe to you, Pharisees! because ye love the first seat in the synagogues, and the greetings in the markets.
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
In The King James Version
In Context
44Woe to you! because ye are as tombs that appear not, and men walking over them know it not.
Cross References
Matthew 23:6and love the first place at feasts, and the first seats in the synagogues,
Luke 14:7And he spoke a parable to those who were bidden, when he marked how they chose out the first places; saying to them:
Romans 12:10be kindly affectioned one to another; in honor, preferring one another;
James 2:2For if there have come into your assembly a man with a gold ring, in gay clothing, and there have come in also a poor man in mean clothing;
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 →