You foolish ones, didn’t he who made the outside make the inside also?
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You foolish ones, didn’t he who made the outside make the inside also?
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Ye foles dyd not he that made that which is without: make that which is within also?
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Ye fooles, did not he that made that which is without, make that which is within also?
Cross-references (17)
Passages linked to Luke 11:40 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Luke 12:20 “But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’
- 1 Corinthians 15:36 You foolish one, that which you yourself sow is not made alive unless it dies.
- Psalms 94:8-9 Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise? He who implanted the ear, won’t he hear? He who formed the eye, won’t he see?
- Proverbs 1:22 “How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?
- Proverbs 8:5 You simple, understand prudence! You fools, be of an understanding heart!
- Matthew 23:17 You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold?
- Matthew 23:26 You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that its outside may become clean also.
- Genesis 1:26 God said, “Let’s make man in our image, after our likeness. Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
- Genesis 2:7 Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
- Numbers 16:22 They fell on their faces, and said, “God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?”
- Psalms 14:1 The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable deeds. There is no one who does good.
- Psalms 33:15 he who fashions all of their hearts; and he considers all of their works.
- Psalms 75:4-5 I said to the arrogant, “Don’t boast!” I said to the wicked, “Don’t lift up the horn. Don’t lift up your horn on high. Don’t speak with a stiff neck.”
- Jeremiah 5:21 ‘Hear this now, foolish people without understanding, who have eyes, and don’t see, who have ears, and don’t hear:
- Zechariah 12:1 A revelation, Yahweh’s word concerning Israel. Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says:
- Luke 24:25 He said to them, “Foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!
- Hebrews 12:9 Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 40 Ye fools, did not he that made that…
40 Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also?
Ver. 40. Did not he that made, &c.] Ought he not, therefore, to be served with both? It is the hidden man of the heart that he most regardeth; the law of the mind that he would have chiefly observed.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain But woe unto you Pharisees,.... Though these words, with…
But woe unto you Pharisees,.... Though these words, with several other passages in this chapter, are much alike with those in Matthew 23 yet it is clear that they were spoken at different times, these in the house of a Pharisee, and they in the temple at Jerusalem:
for ye tithe mint and rue; See Gill on Mat 23:23 the Persic version here reads, "mint and anise", as there; and the Ethiopic version only "hyssop":
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and all manner of herbs; or "every herb"; that is, all sorts of herbs that grow in the garden, and were not common to all;
and pass over judgment, and the love of God: by "judgment" may be meant justice, or doing that which is right between man and man, both publicly and privately, which was greatly neglected by these extortioners and unjust men: and by "the love of God" may be intended, both love to God, which shows itself in the observance of the first table of the law, and love to the neighbour, which God requires, and regards the second table:
these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone; See Gill on Mat 23:23.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 40. Did not he that made that which…
Verse 40. Did not he that made that which is without] Did not the maker of the dish form it so, both outwardly and inwardly, as to answer the purpose for which it was made? And can it answer this purpose without being clean in the inside as well as on the outside? God has made you such, both as to your bodies and souls, as he intended should show forth his praise; but can you think that the purpose of God can be accomplished by you while you only attend to external legal purifications, your hearts being full of rapine and wickedness? How unthinking are you to imagine that God can be pleased with this outward purification, when all within is unholy!
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Ye fools - How unwise and wicked is your…
Ye fools - How unwise and wicked is your conduct! The word denotes not only “want of wisdom,” but also wickedness. Compare Psa 14:1; Pro 13:19; Pro 14:9. Your conduct is not merely “foolish,” but it is a cloak for sin - designed to countenance wickedness.
Did not he ... - Did not God, who made the “body,” make also the “soul?” You Pharisees take great pains to cleanse the “body,” under a pretence of pleasing “God.” Did “he”” not also make the “mind?” and is it not of as much importance that “that” should be pure, as that the body should?
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain that which is without, &c.--that is, He to whom…
that which is without, &c.--that is, He to whom belongs the outer life, and right to demand its subjection to Himself--is the inner man less His?
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 40. Without… within also—If the Creator require a clean…
40. Without… within also—If the Creator require a clean body, will not he also require a clean soul?
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 40. that which is within also] See Mar_7:18-19, which…
40. that which is within also] See Mar_7:18-19, which contains our Lord’s distinctest utterance in abrogation of the Levitic Law— “This He said ...making all meats clean.”
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (40) Ye fools, did not he that made that…
(40) Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without . .?—The question is peculiar to St. Luke, and implies a latent parabolic application of the previous words. Outward, positive ceremonial law, ordering the cleansing of the outside of the cup and of the platter, the eternal moral law requiring truth in the inward parts,—these had, to say the least, the same Maker, and one was not to be neglected for the other.
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