Luke 11:43

Woe to you, Pharishee! for you love the chief seats in the assemblies, and the salutation in the public places.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

Woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye love the uppermost seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets.

In Context

42But woe to you, Pharishee! for you tithe mint, and rue, and every herb, and pass by judgment and the love of Aloha. These hath it behoved you to do, and those not to have omitted.

44Woe to you, scribes and Pharishee, hypocrites! for you are like tombs that are not known, and men walk upon them, and do not know.

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Cross References

Matthew 23:6and love the chief reclining-places at evening feasts, and the highest seats in synagogues,

Luke 14:7And he spoke a parable to them who had been invited there, forasmuch as he had observed them, that they chose the chief places of reclining:

Romans 12:10Be tender to your brethren, and love one another, being forward to honour one another.

James 2:2For if there come into your congregation a man who hath rings of gold or beautiful vestments, and there come in a poor man in sordid vestments,

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 →

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