Luke 11:40
Unthinking [ones]! Did He who made the outside not also make the inside?
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also?
In Context
41But what you have given [as] alms, and behold, all things are clean to you.
Cross References
Genesis 2:7And YHWH God forms the man—dust from the ground, and breathes into his nostrils breath of life, and the man becomes a living creature.
Psalms 14:1TO THE OVERSEER. BY DAVID. A fool has said in his heart, “There is no God”; They have done corruptly, || They have done abominable actions, || There is not a doer of good.
Psalms 75:4I have said to the boastful, “Do not be boastful,” || And to the wicked, “Do not raise up a horn.”
Proverbs 1:22“Until when, you simple, do you love simplicity? And have scorners desired their scorning? And do fools hate knowledge?
Jeremiah 5:21Now hear this, || O people, foolish and without heart, || They have eyes, and they do not see, || They have ears, and they do not hear.
Matthew 23:17Fools and blind! For which [is] greater, the gold, or the temple that is sanctifying the gold?
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 →