Luke 11:39
And the Lord said unto him, 'Now do ye, the Pharisees, the outside of the cup and of the plate make clean, but your inward part is full of rapine and wickedness;
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
38and the Pharisee having seen, did wonder that he did not first baptize himself before the dinner.
40unthinking! did not He who made the outside also the inside make?
Cross References
2 Chronicles 25:2and he doth that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah — only, not with a perfect heart.
Psalms 22:13They have opened against me their mouth, A lion tearing and roaring.
Proverbs 30:12A generation — pure in their own eyes, But from their own filth not washed.
Ezekiel 22:25A conspiracy of its prophets [is] in its midst, as a roaring lion tearing prey; The soul they have devoured, Wealth and glory they have taken, Its widows have multiplied in its midst.
Zephaniah 3:3Her heads in her midst [are] roaring lions, Her judges [are] evening wolves, They have not gnawn the bone in the morning.
Matthew 12:33'Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree bad, and its fruit bad, for from the fruit is the tree known.
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 →