Luke 11:39
And the LORD said to him, “Now you, the Pharisees, make the outside of the cup and of the plate clean, but your inward part is full of robbery and wickedness.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
38and the Pharisee having seen, wondered that He did not first immerse Himself before the early meal.
40Unthinking [ones]! Did He who made the outside not also make the inside?
Cross References
2 Chronicles 25:2and he does that which is right in the eyes of YHWH—only, not with a perfect heart.
Psalms 22:13They have opened their mouth against Me, || A lion tearing and roaring.
Proverbs 30:12A generation—pure in their own eyes, || But not washed from their own filth.
Ezekiel 22:25A conspiracy of its prophets [is] in its midst, || As a roaring lion tearing prey; They have devoured the soul, || They have taken wealth and glory, || Its widows have multiplied in its midst.
Zephaniah 3:3Her heads in her midst [are] roaring lions, || Her judges [are] wolves [as in] evening, || They have not gnawn the bone in the morning.
Matthew 12:33Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree bad, and its fruit bad, for from the fruit is the tree 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 →