Luke 11:40
Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also?
Luke 11:40 in other translations
| BSB | You fools! Did not the One who made the outside make the inside as well? |
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| WEB | You foolish ones, didn’t he who made the outside make the inside also? |
| ASV | Ye foolish ones, did not he that made the outside make the inside also? |
| YLT | unthinking! did not He who made the outside also the inside make? |
| DARBY | Fools, has not he who has made the outside made the inside also? |
| BBE | O you foolish ones! did not he who made the outside in the same way make the inside? |
| Webster | Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without, make that which is within also? |
What does Luke 11:40 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Luke 11:39-41
39-41. cup and platter--remarkable example of our Lord's way of drawing the most striking illustrations of great truths from the most familiar objects and incidents of life. ravening--rapacity.
Barnes' Notes
Did not he, &c. 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?
Albert Barnes, 1834 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Luke 11:37-54
We should all look to our hearts, that they may be cleansed and new-created; and while we attend to the great things of the law and of the gospel, we must not neglect the smallest matter God has appointed. When any wait to catch something out of our mouths, that they may insnare us, O Lord, give us thy prudence and thy patience, and disappoint their evil purposes. Furnish us with such meekness and patience that we…
Luke 11:40 in the original Greek
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Cross references for Luke 11:40
- Luke 12:20
But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?
- 1 Corinthians 15:36
Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:
- Matthew 23:26
Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
- Matthew 23:17
Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?
- Proverbs 1:22
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
- Proverbs 8:5
O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.
- Psalms 94:8-9
Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise? He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
- Numbers 16:22
And they fell upon their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation?
- Genesis 2:7
And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
- Jeremiah 5:21
Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:
- Psalms 75:4-5
I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn: Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.
- Genesis 1:26
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
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Context
- Luke 11:39
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.
- Luke 11:40
Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also?
- Luke 11:41
But rather give alms of such things as ye have; and, behold, all things are clean unto you.
Luke 11:40 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Necios, ¿el que hizo lo de fuera, no hizo también lo de dentro? |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Insensés! celui qui a fait le dehors, n’a-t-il pas fait le dedans aussi? |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Toren! hat nicht der, welcher das Äußere gemacht hat, auch das Innere gemacht? |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Stulti! nonne qui fecit quod deforis est, etiam id quod deintus est fecit? |