Luke 18:9
Also He spoke this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised the others:
English Majority Text (NT)
In The King James Version
In Context
10“Two men went up to the temple to pray, the one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.
Cross References
Luke 10:29But he, wanting to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
Luke 15:29So he answered and said to his father, ‘Lo, so many years I have been serving you and I never transgressed your commandment; and yet you never gave me a young goat, that I might make merry with my friends.
Luke 18:11The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, ‘God, I thank You that I am not like other men—swindlers, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
John 7:47Then the Pharisees answered them, “Have you also been deceived?
Matthew Henry on Luke 18:2-9
The Unjust Judge. 1 And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint; 2 Saying, There was in a city a judge, which feared not God, neither regarded man: 3 And there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary. 4 And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man; 5 Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me. 6 And the… Read the whole commentary →