Luke 11:44

"Woe unto you! for you are like the tombs which are hidden, and men walk over them unsuspecting."

Montgomery New Testament

In The King James Version

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are as graves which appear not, and the men that walk over them are not aware of them .

In Context

43"Woe unto you Pharisee! for you delight in the best seats in the synagogue, and in the salutation in the market-places.

45Hereupon one of the lawyers exclaimed, "But teacher, in saying such things you are also reproaching us also."

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Cross References

Matthew 23:27"Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like white- washed sepulchers. They look beautiful without, but within they are filled with dead men’s bones and all rottenness.

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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