Luke 11:39
And the Lord said to 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.
Webster Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
38And when the Pharisee saw it , he marveled that he had not first washed before dinner.
40Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without, make that which is within also?
Cross References
2 Chronicles 25:2And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, but not with a perfect heart.
Psalms 22:13They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
Proverbs 30:12There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet are not washed from their filthiness.
Ezekiel 22:25There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst of her, like a roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls; they have taken the treasure and precious things; they have made her many widows in the midst of her.
Zephaniah 3:3Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
Matthew 12:33Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by its fruit.
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 →