Woes to Pharisees and Experts in the Law

Luke 11:44

In 9 translations

BSB: Woe to you! For you are like unmarked graves, which men walk over without even noticing.”
KJV: Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are as graves which appear not, and the men that walk over them are not aware of them.
WEB: Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like hidden graves, and the men who walk over them don’t know it.”
ASV: Woe unto you! for ye are as the tombs which appear not, and the men that walk over them know it not.
LSV: Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you are as the unseen tombs, and the men walking above have not known.”
YLT: 'Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because ye are as the unseen tombs, and the men walking above have not known.'
DBY: Woe unto you, for ye are as the sepulchres which appear not, and the men walking over them do not know [it].
DRC: Woe to you, because you are as sepulchres that appear not, and men that walk over are not aware.
GNV: Wo be to you, Scribes and Pharises, hypocrites: for ye are as graues which appeare not, and the men that walke ouer them, perceiue not.

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Where the editions differ

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In STEPBible’s comparison, Textus Receptus, Byzantine text include γραμματεῖς καὶ Φαρισαῖοι ὑποκριταί (“scribes and Pharisees hypocrites”); NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles do not include this wording.
In STEPBible’s comparison, NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles, Textus Receptus include οἱ (“who”); Byzantine text do not include this wording.

SBLGNT apparatus (2)

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SBLGNT: ὑμῖν. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read ὑμῖν; Robinson–Pierpont add γραμματεῖς καὶ Φαρισαῖοι ὑποκριταί.
SBLGNT: οἱ. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read οἱ; Robinson–Pierpont omit this wording.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT: οὐαὶ ὑμῖν, ὅτι ἐστὲ ὡς τὰ μνημεῖα τὰ ἄδηλα, καὶ οἱ ἄνθρωποι οἱ περιπατοῦντες ἐπάνω οὐκ οἴδασιν.
RP2018: Οὐαὶ ὑμῖν, γραμματεῖς καὶ Φαρισαῖοι, ὑποκριταί, ὅτι ἐστὲ ὡς τὰ μνημεῖα τὰ ἄδηλα, καὶ οἱ ἄνθρωποι περιπατοῦντες ἐπάνω οὐκ οἴδασιν.
TR-Boyd: Οὐαὶ ὑμῖν, γραμματεῖς καὶ Φαρισαῖοι, ὑποκριταί, ὅτι ἐστὲ ὡς τὰ μνημεῖα τὰ ἄδηλα, καὶ οἱ ἄνθρωποι οἱ περιπατοῦντες ἐπάνω οὐκ οἴδασιν.
SCR1894: ουαι υμιν γραμματεις και φαρισαιοι υποκριται οτι εστε ως τα μνημεια τα αδηλα και οι ανθρωποι οι περιπατουντες επανω ουκ οιδασιν

Who and where

◆ Woes and Parables with Pharisees

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In the reference works topics that cite this verse

Pharisees Self-Righteousness Satire Teachers Purification Martha Hypocrites Pharisees, The Burial Luke, the Gospel of

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Cross-references most cited first

Matthew 23:27–28Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside, but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of impurity. In the same way, on the…
Acts 23:3Then Paul said to him, “God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! You sit here to judge me according to the law, yet you yourself violate the law by commanding that I be struck.”
Psalms 5:9For not a word they speak can be trusted; destruction lies within them. Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.
Numbers 19:16Anyone in the open field who touches someone who has been killed by the sword or has died of natural causes, or anyone who touches a human bone or a grave, will be unclean for seven days.
Hosea 9:8The prophet is Ephraim’s watchman, along with my God, yet the snare of the fowler lies on all his paths. Hostility is in the house of his God!

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