Luke Chapter 20 verse 47 Holy Bible
who devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater condemnation.
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Who take the property of widows and before the eyes of men make long prayers; they will get a greater punishment.
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who devour the houses of widows, and as a pretext make long prayers. These shall receive a severer judgment.
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Which devour widows' houses, and for a shew make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation.
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who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers: these will receive greater condemnation."
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who devour the houses of the widows, and for a pretence make long prayers, these shall receive more abundant judgment.'
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 47. - Which devour widows' houses. Josephus specially alludes to the influence which certain of the Pharisees had acquired over women as directors of the conscience. For a show; rather, in pretence. "Their hypocrisy was so notorious that even the Talmud records the warning given by Alexander Jannaeus to his wife on his deathbed against painted Pharisees. And in their seven classes of Pharisees, the Talmudic writers place 'Shechemites,' Pharisees from self-interest; 'Stumblers,' so mock-humble that they will not raise their feet from the ground; 'Bleeders,' so mock-modest that, because they will not raise their eyes, they run against walls, etc. Thus the Jewish writers themselves depict the Pharisees as the Tartuffes of antiquity" (Farrar). Shall receive greater damnation; rather, judgment. The translators of our beautiful English version are most unhappy in their usual rendering of κρίμα.
