Luke 11:37-53
1599 Geneva Bible
37 ¶ [a]And as he spake, a certain Pharisee besought him to dine with him: and he went in, and sat down at the table.
38 And when the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that he had not first washed before dinner.
39 (A)And the Lord said to him, Indeed ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup, and of the platter: but the 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 Therefore, give alms [b]of those things which you have, and behold, all things shall be clean unto you.
42 [c]But woe be to you, Pharisees: for ye [d]tithe the mint and the rue, and [e]all manner herbs, and pass over [f]judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to have left the other undone.
43 (B)[g]Woe be to you, Pharisees: for ye love the uppermost seats in the Synagogues, and greetings in the markets.
44 [h]Woe be to you, Scribes and Pharisees hypocrites: (C)for ye are as graves which appear not, and the men that walk over them, perceive not.
45 ¶ [i]Then answered one of the Lawyers, and said unto him, Master, thus saying thou puttest us to rebuke also.
46 And he said, Woe be to you also, ye Lawyers: (D)for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.
47 [j]Woe be to you: (E)for ye build the sepulchers of the Prophets, and your fathers killed them.
48 Truly [k]ye bear witness, and allow the deeds of your fathers: for they killed them, and ye build their sepulchers.
49 Therefore said the wisdom of God, I will send them Prophets and Apostles, and of them they shall slay, and [l]persecute away,
50 That the blood of all the Prophets, [m]shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation,
51 From the blood of (F)Abel unto the blood of (G)Zechariah, which was slain between the altar and the Temple: verily I say unto you, it shall be required of this generation.
52 [n]Woe be to you, Lawyers: for ye have [o]taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that came in, ye forbade.
53 [p]And as he said these things unto them, the Scribes and Pharisees began to urge him sore, and to [q]provoke him to speak of many things,
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- Luke 11:37 The service of God consisteth not in outward cleanliness, and devised rites or ceremonies, but in the spiritual righteousness of the heart, and charity.
- Luke 11:41 That is, according to your abilities as who would say, instead of your extortions, which hindered you, that you could not eat cleanly, use charity, and accordingly as your ability shall serve you, be good to the poor, and so shall that, that is within the platter, be sanctified though the platter be unwashed.
- Luke 11:42 It is the propense of hypocrites, to stand stoutly for little trifles, and let pass greater matters.
- Luke 11:42 You decide by God’s Law that the tenth part is due to be paid.
- Luke 11:42 Of all kind of herbs some, as Augustine expoundeth it in his Enchiridion to Laurence, chap. 99, where he showeth in like sort how that place of Paul, 1 Tim. 2:4, God will have all men to be saved, is to be expoundeth after the same manner.
- Luke 11:42 That is to say, that that is right and reason to do: for this word, Judgment, containeth the commandments of the second table, and the other words, The love of God, contain the first.
- Luke 11:43 Hypocrisy and ambition are commonly joined together.
- Luke 11:44 Hypocrites deceive men with an outward show.
- Luke 11:45 Hypocrites are very severe against other men, but think all things lawful to themselves.
- Luke 11:47 Hypocrites honor those saints when they are dead, whom they most cruelly persecute, when they were alive.
- Luke 11:48 When you persecute God’s servants, like mad men, even as your fathers did, though you color it with a pretence of godliness, yet notwithstanding, in that you beautify the sepulchers of the Prophets, what do you else, but glory in your fathers’ cruelty, and set up monuments (as it were) in glory and triumph of it?
- Luke 11:49 They shall so vex them and trouble them, that at length they shall banish them.
- Luke 11:50 That you may be called to an account for it, yea, and be punished, for the shedding of that blood of the Prophet.
- Luke 11:52 They have of long time chiefly hindered the people, from entering into the knowledge of God, which ought to be the doorkeepers of the Church.
- Luke 11:52 You have hidden and taken away, so that it cannot be found anywhere.
- Luke 11:53 The more the world is reprehended, the worse it is, and yet must we not betray the truth.
- Luke 11:53 They proposed many questions to him, to draw something out of his mouth, which they might traitorously carp at.
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