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APRIL 13
4 And in Your majesty ride prosperously
because of truth, humility, and
righteousness;
And Your right hand shall teach You 11:34 The lamp of the body.This is a different
awesome things. metaphor from the one in v. 33. There the
Your arrows are sharp in the heart lamp speaks of the word of God. Here the eye
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of the King’s enemies; is the “lamp”—i.e., the source of light—for the
The peoples fall under You. body.when your eye is bad. The problem was
their perception, not a lack of light. They did
Proverbs 14:4–5 not need a sign.They needed hearts to believe
4 Where no oxen are, the trough is clean; the great display of divine power they had
But much increase comes by the already seen.
strength of an ox.
11:38 He had not first washed. The Pharisee
5 A faithful witness does not lie, was concerned with ceremony, not hygiene.
But a false witness will utter lies. The Greek word for “washed”refers to a ceremo-
nial ablution. Nothing in the law commanded
Luke 11:29–54
such washings, but the Pharisees practiced
29 And while the crowds were thickly gath- them,believing the ritual cleansed them of any
ered together, He began to say, “This is an evil accidental ceremonial defilement.
generation. It seeks a sign, and no sign will be
given to it except the sign of Jonah the prophet. pass by justice and the love of God. These you
For as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, ought to have done, without leaving the others
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so also the Son of Man will be to this genera- undone. Woe to you Pharisees! For you love
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tion. The queen of the South will rise up in the best seats in the synagogues and greet-
the judgment with the men of this generation ings in the marketplaces. Woe to you, scribes
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and condemn them, for she came from the and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like
ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Sol- graves which are not seen, and the men who
omon; and indeed a greater than Solomon is walk over them are not aware of them.”
here. The men of Nineveh will rise up in the 45 Then one of the lawyers answered and
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judgment with this generation and condemn said to Him, “Teacher, by saying these things
it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; You reproach us also.”
and indeed a greater than Jonah is here. 46 And He said, “Woe to you also, lawyers!
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“No one, when he has lit a lamp, puts it in For you load men with burdens hard to bear,
a secret place or under a basket, but on a and you yourselves do not touch the burdens
lampstand, that those who come in may see with one of your fingers. Woe to you! For you
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the light. The lamp of the body is the eye. build the tombs of the prophets, and your
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Therefore, when your eye is good, your whole fathers killed them. In fact, you bear witness
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body also is full of light. But when your eye is that you approve the deeds of your fathers; for
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bad, your body also is full of darkness. There- they indeed killed them, and you build their
fore take heed that the light which is in you is tombs. Therefore the wisdom of God also
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not darkness. If then your whole body is full said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles,
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of light, having no part dark, the whole body and some of them they will kill and persecute,’
will be full of light, as when the bright shining 50 that the blood of all the prophets which was
of a lamp gives you light.” shed from the foundation of the world may be
And as He spoke, a certain Pharisee asked required of this generation, from the blood of
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Him to dine with him. So He went in and sat Abel to the blood of Zechariah who perished
down to eat. When the Pharisee saw it, he between the altar and the temple. Yes, I say to
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marveled that He had not first washed before you, it shall be required of this generation.
dinner. 52 “Woe to you lawyers! For you have taken
39 Then the Lord said to him, “Now you away the key of knowledge. You did not enter
Pharisees make the outside of the cup and dish in yourselves, and those who were entering in
clean, but your inward part is full of greed and you hindered.”
wickedness. Foolish ones! Did not He who 53 And as He said these things to them, the
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made the outside make the inside also? But scribes and the Pharisees began to assail Him
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rather give alms of such things as you have; vehemently, and to cross-examine Him about
then indeed all things are clean to you. many things, lying in wait for Him, and seek-
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42 “But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe ing to catch Him in something He might say,
mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and that they might accuse Him.
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