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The Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.
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Heart Purity Over Ritual Purity
Jesus uses the metaphor of a clean cup to expose a critical error: focusing on external religious rituals while ignoring inner spiritual reality. Commentators like Calvin and Spurgeon stress that God, who created the soul, is concerned with the purity of our hearts—our motives and character—not just outward appearances. True righteousness begins on the inside.
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Luke
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18th Century
Presbyterian
See Matthew 23:25. Ravening. Robbery, plunder. Here the sense is that the cup and platter were filled with what had been unjustly taken fr…
The Lord (ο κυριος). The Lord Jesus plainly and in the narrative portion of Luke.
Now (νυν). Probably refe…
19th Century
Anglican
Now you Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup.—See Note on Matthew 23:25. The verses that follow stand in relation …
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Baptist
"One needs washing as much as the other. You are so careful of your hands; will you not be more careful of your hearts?"
In Jesus’ estimation, the “Pharisees” (see comment on Mk 2:15–16) had lost the heart of their religion. In vv.41–42b Jesus offers a positive correc…
16th Century
Protestant
Now you Pharisees. Christ does not here charge the Pharisees, as in Matthew (Matthew 15:1–20) and Mark ([Reference Ma…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And the Lord said to him Jesus, as the Syriac and Persic versions read; the Lord Jesus, as the Ethiopic.
Now do …
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, …
