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Luke 11:44

Alas for you! because ye are as the secret tombs: even the men that are walking above them, know it not.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

43Alas for you, the Pharisees! because ye love the first seats in the synagogues, and the salutations in the market-places!

45And, making answer, one of the Lawyers saith unto him, Teacher! these things, saying, us also, dost thou insult!

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Cross References

Numbers 19:16And, whosoever toucheth on the face of the field, one slain with a sword, or one who hath died, or a human bone or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

Ezekiel 39:15And when any of the passers-by, in going through the land, shall see a human bone, then shall he set up near it a sign,—until the buriers have buried it, in Ge-hamon-Gog.

Matthew 23:27Alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because ye make yourselves like sepulchres whitewashed, which, outside, indeed, appear, beautiful, but, within, are full, of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness,—

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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