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39 But the Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees clean[a] the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.[b] 40 You fools![c] Didn’t the one who made the outside make the inside as well?[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 11:39 sn The allusion to washing (clean the outside of the cup) shows Jesus knew what they were thinking and deliberately set up a contrast that charged them with hypocrisy and majoring on minors.
  2. Luke 11:39 tn Or “and evil.”
  3. Luke 11:40 sn You fools is a rebuke which in the OT refers to someone who is blind to God (Pss 14:1; 53:1; 92:6; Prov 6:12).
  4. Luke 11:40 tn The question includes a Greek particle, οὐ (ou), that expects a positive reply. God, the maker of both, is concerned for what is both inside and outside.