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Selected Verse: Luke 11:40 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Lu 11:40 |
King James |
Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also? |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| 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? |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
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? |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| 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! |
9 Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour.
19 The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul: but it is abomination to fools to depart from evil.
1 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.