Luke 11:43
Woe to you Pharisees, for you love the front seats in the synagogues and respectful greetings in the marketplaces.
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In Context
44Woe to you, for you are like unmarked graves that people walk over without knowing it.”
Cross References
Matthew 23:6They love the chief places at feasts and the chief seats in the synagogues,
Luke 14:7When Jesus noticed how those who were invited chose the seats of honor, he spoke a parable, saying to them,
Romans 12:10Concerning love of the brothers, be affectionate to one another. Concerning honor, respect one another.
James 2:2Suppose that someone enters your meeting wearing gold rings and fine clothes, and there also enters a poor man in dirty clothes.
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 →