Luke 18:9
And He also spoke to some who have been trusting in themselves that they were righteous, and have been despising the rest, this allegory:
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10“Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee, and the other a tax collector;
Cross References
Proverbs 30:12A generation—pure in their own eyes, || But not washed from their own filth.
Isaiah 66:5Hear a word of YHWH, || You who are trembling at His word: “Your brothers who are hating you, || Who are driving you out for My Name’s sake, have said, || YHWH is honored, and we look on your joy, || But they are ashamed.”
Luke 10:29And he, willing to declare himself righteous, said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
Luke 15:29and he answering said to the father, Behold, so many years I serve you, and never did I transgress your command, and you never gave to me a kid that I might make merry with my friends;
Luke 18:11the Pharisee having stood by himself, thus prayed: God, I thank You that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unrighteous, adulterers, or even as this tax collector;
John 7:47The Pharisees, therefore, answered them, “Have you also been led astray?
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 →