Luke 11:43

Alas for you Pharisees! for you love the best seats in the synagogues, and you like to be bowed to in places of public resort.

Weymouth NT (1912)

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

42"But alas for you Pharisees! for you pay tithes on your mint and rue and every kind of garden vegetable, and are indifferent to justice and the love of God. These are the things you ought to have attended to, while not neglecting the others.

44Alas for you! for you are like the tombs which lie hidden, and the people who walk over them are not aware of their existence."

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Cross References

Matthew 23:6and love the best seats at a dinner party or in the synagogues,

Luke 14:7Then, when He noticed that the invited guests chose the best seats, He used this as an illustration and said to them,

Romans 12:10As for brotherly love, be affectionate to one another; in matters of worldly honour, yield to one another.

James 2:2For suppose a man comes into one of your meetings wearing gold rings and fine clothes, and there also comes in a poor man wearing shabby clothes,

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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