Luke Chapter 16 verse 14 Holy Bible
And the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all these things; and they scoffed at him.
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And the Pharisees, who had a great love of money, hearing these things, were making sport of him.
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And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things, and mocked him.
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And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.
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The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.
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And also the Pharisees, being lovers of money, were hearing all these things, and were deriding him,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 14. - And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him. This shows that many of the dominant sect had been present and had listened to the parable of the unjust steward. Although scrupulous, and in a way religious men, these Pharisees were notorious for their respect and regard for riches, and all that riches purchase, and they felt, no doubt deeply, the Lord's bitter reproach of covetousness. They, the rulers and leaders of Israel, the religious guides, were evidently attacked in such teaching as they had been lately listening to, not the common people whom they so despised. The scornful words alluded to in the expression, "they derided him," were no doubt directed against the outward poverty of the popular Galilaean Teacher. "It is all very well," they would say, "for one springing from the ranks of the people, landless, moneyless, to rail at wealth and the possessors of wealth; we can understand such teaching from one such as you."
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(14) And the Pharisees also, who were covetous.--The words are important as showing that they had been listening during the previous parable, and that the words, though addressed to the disciples, had been meant also for them. (See Note on Luke 16:1.) The word for "covetous" is literally lovers of money, as distinct from more general cupidity, and as being used by St. Paul in 2Timothy 3:2, and nowhere else in the New Testament, furnishes another instance of community of language between him and the Evangelist.Derided him.--The verb implies visible rather than audible signs of scorn--the distended nostril, and the sneering lip, the naso suspendere adunco of the Roman satirist. It is, i.e., a word that forcibly expresses the physiognomy of contempt (see Galatians 6:7). Here again we have a word common to the two writers just named. The motive of the derision lies on the surface. That they, the teachers of Israel, should be told that they were like the Unjust Steward, that they were wasting their Lord's goods, that they must make friends with the unrighteous mammon of quite another kind than those whom they were wont to court--this was more than they could stand. They have felt the force of the rebuke, and therefore they stifle it with mockery--"A little grain of conscience made them sour."