Luke 18:11 BSB — MannaFest

Luke 18:11

The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed, ‘God, I thank You that I am not like the other men—swindlers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as the rest of men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.

KJV

The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.

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Commentary

4 voices

Cyril of Alexandria

COMMENTARY ON LUKE, HOMILY 120 (444)

What profit is there in fasting twice in the week if it serves only as a pretext for ignorance and vanity and makes you proud, haughty and selfish? You tithe your possessions and boast about it. In another way, you provoke God's anger by condemning and accusing other people because of this. You are puffed up, although not crowned by the divine decree for righteousness. On the contrary, you heap praises on yourself. He says, "I am not as the rest of humankind." Moderate yourself, O Pharisee. Put a door and lock on your tongue.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

The Pharisee denies himself to be a sinner; none of his neighbours can charge him, and he sees no reason to charge himself, with any thing amiss; he is clean, he is pure from sin. But the publican gives himself no other character than that of a sinner, a convicted criminal at God's bar. (2.) He has no dependence but upon the mercy of God, that, and that only, he relies upon.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Stood and prayed thus with himself - Some have proposed to render this, “stood by himself” and prayed. In this way it would be characteristic of the sect of the Pharisees, who dreaded the contact of others as polluting, and who were disposed to say to all, Stand by yourselves. The Syraic so renders it, but it is doubtful whether the Greek will allow this construction. If not, it means, he said over to himself what he had done, and what was the ground on which he expected the favour of God.

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Luke (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1858)

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Original language & word study

28 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ὁ	ho	The	G3588 →
Φαρισαῖος	Pharisaios	Pharisee	G5330 →
σταθεὶς	statheis	having stood	G2476 →
πρὸς	pros	toward	G4314 →
ἑαυτὸν	he'auton	himself	G1438 →
ταῦτα	tauta	these things	G3778 →
προσηύχετο·	prosēucheto	was praying;	G4336 →
ὁ	ho	O	G3588 →
θεός,	theos	God,	G2316 →
εὐχαριστῶ	eucharistō	I thank	G2168 →
σοι	soi	You	G4771 →
ὅτι	hoti	that	G3754 →
οὐκ	ouk	not	G3756 →
εἰμὶ	eimi	I am	G1510 →
ὥσπερ	hōsper	like	G5618 →
οἱ	hoi	the	G3588 →
λοιποὶ	loipoi	rest	G3062 →
τῶν	tōn	of the	G3588 →
ἀνθρώπων,	anthrōpōn	men —	G444 →
ἅρπαγες,	harpages	swindlers,	G727 →
ἄδικοι,	adikoi	unrighteous,	G94 →
μοιχοί,	moichoi	adulterers —	G3432 →
ἢ	ē	or	G2228 →
καὶ	kai	even	G2532 →
ὡς	hōs	like	G5613 →
οὗτος	houtos	this	G3778 →
ὁ	ho	<the>	G3588 →
τελώνης.	telōnēs	tax collector.	G5057 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Mark 11:25
And when you stand to pray, if you hold anything against another, forgive it, so that your Father in heaven will forgive your trespasses as well.”
leads to
- Matthew 6:14–15
  For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
- Colossians 3:13
  Bear with one another and forgive any complaint you may have against someone else. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.
- Ephesians 4:32
  Be kind and tenderhearted to one another, forgiving each other just as in Christ God forgave you.
- Luke 6:37
  Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.
Through
Matthew 6:5
And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. Truly I tell you, they…
leads to
- Matthew 6:2
  So when you give to the needy, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men. Truly I tell you,…
- Luke 18:10–11
  “Two men went up to the temple to pray. One was a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.
- Luke 18:13
  But the tax collector stood at a distance, unwilling even to lift up his eyes to heaven. Instead, he beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner!’
- Mark 11:25
  And when you stand to pray, if you hold anything against another, forgive it, so that your Father in heaven will forgive your trespasses as well.”

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Luke

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Luke