And he spake a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch?
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Gill's Exposition
The disciple is not above his master,.... Or "more excellent", as the Syriac, Arabic, and Persic versions render it; that is, in learning and knowledge; if the master is ignorant, the scholar will be…
See this passage fully illustrated in the sermon on the mount, in Matt. 5–7. Luk 6:21 That hunger now - Matthew has it, “that hunger and thirst after righteousness.” Matthew has expressed more fully…
Adam Clarke
Can the blind lead the blind? - This appears to have been a general proverb, and to signify that a man cannot teach what he does not understand. This is strictly true in spiritual matters. A man who…
All these sayings of Christ we had before in Matthew; some of them in ch. 7, others in other places. They were sayings that Christ often used; they needed only to be mentioned, it was easy to apply…
Cambridge Bible
39-45. Sincerity. Four Comparisons.
39. Can the blind lead the blind? Mat 15:14; Pro 19:27, "Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err." St Paul taunts the Jew with professing to be…
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