Luke 6:39 KJV — MannaFest

Luke 6:39

And he spake a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch?

KJV

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ASV

And he spake also a parable unto them, Can the blind guide the blind? shall they not both fall into a pit?

WEB

Jesus also told them a parable: “Can a blind man lead a blind man? Will they not both fall into a pit?

YLT

And he spake a simile to them, `Is blind able to lead blind? shall they not both fall into a pit?

DBT

And he spoke also a parable to them: Can a blind [man] lead a blind [man]? shall not both fall into [the] ditch?

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Luke — Luke's 'orderly account' (1:3) follows Jesus from Bethlehem through the long travel narrative to Jerusalem and the Emmaus road.

Author: Luke, beloved physician (Col 4:14), travel-companion of Paul
Date: c. AD 60–62

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Matthew 15:14
Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
2 Timothy 3:13
But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
Isaiah 56:10
His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
Isaiah 9:16
For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.
Jeremiah 14:15–16
Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land; By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.

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Shall not both fall together into the ditch? How can they expect any other? Those that are led by the common opinion, course, and custom, of this world, are themselves blind, and are led by the blind, and will perish with the world that sits in darkness.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Christ justifies his disciples in a work of necessity for themselves on that day, and that was plucking the ears of corn, when they were hungry on that day. This story here has a date, which we had not in the other evangelists; it was on the second sabbath after the first (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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