Charles Ellicott Commentary Luke 11:40

"Ye foolish ones, did not he that made the outside make the inside also?" — Luke 11:40 (ASV)

You fools, did not he that made that which is without...? This question is peculiar to St. Luke and implies a latent parabolic application of the previous words. The outward, positive ceremonial law, ordering the cleansing of the outside of the cup and of the platter, and the eternal moral law, requiring truth in the inward parts—these, to say the least, had the same Maker, and one was not to be neglected for the other.