Luke 11:39
Then the Lord said, “Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
38But the Pharisee was surprised to see that Jesus did not first wash before the meal.
40You fools! Did not the One who made the outside make the inside as well?
Cross References
2 Chronicles 25:2And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, but not wholeheartedly.
Psalms 22:13They open their jaws against me like lions that roar and maul.
Proverbs 30:12There is a generation of those who are pure in their own eyes and yet unwashed of their filth.
Ezekiel 22:25The conspiracy of the princes in her midst is like a roaring lion tearing its prey. They devour the people, seize the treasures and precious things, and multiply the widows within her.
Zephaniah 3:3Her princes are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves, leaving nothing for the morning.
Matthew 12:33Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is known by its fruit.
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 →