Luke 11:40

11:40 You fools! ¹  Didn’t the one who made the outside make the inside as well? ² 

Luke 11:7

11:7 Then ³  he will reply ⁴  from inside, ‘Do not bother me. The door is already shut, and my children and I are in bed. ⁵  I cannot get up and give you anything.’ ⁶ 

Luke 11:39

11:39 But the Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees clean ⁷  the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness. ⁸ 

[11:40]  ¹ sn You fools is a rebuke which in the OT refers to someone who is blind to God (Ps 14:1, 53:1; 92:6; Prov 6:12).

[11:40]  ² tn The question includes a Greek particle, οὐ (ou), that expects a positive reply. God, the maker of both, is concerned for what is both inside and outside.

[11:7]  ³ tn Κἀκεῖνος (kakeino") has been translated “Then he.”

[11:7]  ⁴ tn Grk “answering, he will say.” This is redundant in contemporary English and has been simplified to “he will reply.”

[11:7]  ⁵ tn Grk “my children are with me in the bed.” In Jewish homes in the time of Jesus, the beds were often all together in one room; thus the householder may be speaking of individual beds (using a collective singular) rather than a common bed.

[11:7]  ⁶ tn The syntax of vv. 6-7 is complex. In the Greek text Jesus’ words in v. 6 begin as a question. Some see Jesus’ question ending at v. 6, but the reply starting in v. 8 favors extending the question through the entire illustration. The translation breaks up the long sentence at the beginning of v. 7 and translates Jesus’ words as a statement for reasons of English style.

[11:39]  ⁵ sn The allusion to washing (clean the outside of the cup) shows Jesus knew what they were thinking and deliberately set up a contrast that charged them with hypocrisy and majoring on minors.

[11:39]  ⁶ tn Or “and evil.”