And as he spake, a certain Pharisee besought him to dine with him: and he went in, and sat down to meat.
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Gill's Exposition
And the Lord said unto him,.... Jesus, as the Syriac and Persic versions read; the Lord Jesus, as the Ethiopic.
Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup, and the platter; being very…
Barnes' Notes
And as he spake - While he was addressing the people, and particularly while he was reproving that generation and declaring its crimes. A certain Pharisee - The Pharisees had been particularly…
Adam Clarke
To dine - Ὁπως αριϚηση. The word αριστειν dignifies the first eating of the day. The Jews made but two meals in the day; their αριστον may be called their breakfast or their dinner, because it was…
Christ here says many of those things to a Pharisee and his guests, in a private conversation at table, which he afterwards said in a public discourse in the temple (Mt. 23); for what he said in…
Cambridge Bible
37-54. The Invitation of the Pharisee and the open Rupture.
37. besought Rather, asked.
to dine with him The meal was not dinner (deipnon), but an earlier, lighter, and more informal meal…