Luke 11:43

Woe to you Pharisees! You love the best seat in the synagogues, and greetings in the marketplaces.

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In The King James Version

Woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye love the uppermost seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets.

In Context

42“But woe to you Pharisees! You tithe mint and rue and every herb, but you ignore justice and the love of God. These it was necessary to do, without leaving those undone.

44Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like unperceived graves, that people walk on without knowing it.”

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Cross References

Matthew 23:6they love the place of honor at dinners and the first seats in the synagogues,

Luke 14:7Then He told a parable to those who were invited, having observed how they kept trying for the best places, saying to them:

Romans 12:10showing family affection to one another in brotherly love; in honor preferring one another;

James 2:2For if a man with a gold ring, in fine clothes, should enter your synagogue, and a poor man in filthy rags should also enter,

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 →

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