Luke 11:34-44

34 "¹The eye is the lamp of your body; when your eye is clear, your whole body also is full of light; but when it is bad, your body also is full of darkness.

35 "Then watch out that the light in you is not darkness.

36 "If therefore your whole body is full of light, with no * dark part in it, it will be wholly illumined, as when the lamp illumines you with its rays."

Woes upon the Pharisees

37 Now when He had spoken, a Pharisee asked Him to have lunch with him; and He went in, and reclined at the table.

38 When the Pharisee saw it, he was surprised that He had not first ²ceremonially washed before the meal.

39 But ³the Lord said to him, "Now ⁴you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and of the platter; but inside of you, you are full of robbery and wickedness.

40 "⁵You foolish ones, did not He who made the outside make the inside also?

41 "But ⁶give that which is within as charity, and then all things are ⁷clean for you.

42 "⁸But woe to you Pharisees! For you ⁹pay tithe of mint and rue and every kind of garden herb, and yet disregard justice and the love of God; but these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others.

43 "Woe to you Pharisees! For you ¹⁰love the chief seats in the synagogues and the respectful greetings in the market places.

44 "¹¹Woe to you! For you are like concealed tombs, and the people who walk over them are unaware of it."

Cross References

• 1. Luke 11:34, 35: {Matthew 6:22, 23}
• 2. Matthew 15:2; Mark 7:3
• 3. Luke 7:13
• 4. Matthew 23:25
• 5. Luke 12:20; 1 Corinthians 15:36
• 6. Luke 12:33; Luke 16:9
• 7. Mark 7:19; Titus 1:15
• 8. Matthew 23:23
• 9. Leviticus 27:30; Luke 18:12
• 10. Matthew 23:6; Mark 12:38; Luke 14:7; Luke 20:46
• 11. Matthew 23:27

Footnotes

• [a]. Or "healthy"
• [b]. Or "evil"
• [c]. Lit "baptized"
• [d]. Or "lunch"
• [e]. Lit "your inside is full"
• [f]. Lit "behold"
• [g]. Or "indistinct, unseen"