Luke 11:39
And the Lord saide to him, In deede yee Pharises make cleane the outside of the cuppe, and of the platter: but the inwarde part is full of rauening and wickednesse.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
38And when the Pharise saw it, he marueiled that he had not first washed before dinner.
40Ye fooles, did not he that made that which is without, make that which is within also?
Cross References
2 Chronicles 25:2And he did vprightly in the eyes of the Lord, but not with a perfite heart.
Psalms 22:13They gape vpon me with their mouthes, as a ramping and roaring lyon.
Proverbs 30:12There is a generation that are pure in their owne conceite, and yet are not washed from their filthinesse.
Ezekiel 22:25There is a conspiracie of her prophets in the mids thereof like a roaring lyon, rauening the praye: they haue deuoured soules: they haue taken the riches and precious things: they haue made her many widowes in the mids thereof.
Zephaniah 3:3Her princes within her are as roaring lyons: her iudges are as wolues in the euening, which leaue not the bones till the morow.
Matthew 12:33Either make the tree good, and his fruite good: or els make the tree euill, and his fruite euil: for the tree is knowen by the fruite.
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 →