Luke 11:43

43 Alas for you Pharisees! for you love the best seats in the synagogues, and you like to be bowed to in places of public resort.

Luke 11:43 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 11:43

Woe unto you Pharisees, for ye love the uppermost seats
in the synagogues
And also the uppermost rooms at feasts, ( Matthew 23:6 )

and greetings in the market; (See Gill on Matthew 23:6) and (See Gill on Matthew 23:7).

Luke 11:43 In-Context

41 But as to what is within, give alms, and instantly all is clean in you.

42 "But alas for you Pharisees! for you pay tithes on your mint and rue and every kind of garden vegetable, and are indifferent to justice and the love of God. These are the things you ought to have attended to, while not neglecting the others.

43 Alas for you Pharisees! for you love the best seats in the synagogues, and you like to be bowed to in places of public resort.

44 Alas for you! for you are like the tombs which lie hidden, and the people who walk over them are not aware of their existence."

45 Hereupon one of the expounders of the Law exclaimed, "Rabbi, in saying such things you reproach us also."