Luke Chapter 18 verse 9 Holy Bible
And he spake also this parable unto certain who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and set all others at nought:
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And he made this story for some people who were certain that they were good, and had a low opinion of others:
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And he spoke also to some, who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and made nothing of all the rest [of men], this parable:
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And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:
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He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others.
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And he spake also unto certain who have been trusting in themselves that they were righteous, and have been despising the rest, this simile:
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 9. - And he spake this parable. With this parable, "the Pharisee and the publican," St. Luke concludes his memories of the last journeyings toward Jerusalem. The incidents which directly follow took place close to Jerusalem; and here St. Luke's narrative rejoins that of SS. Matthew and Mark. No note of time or place assists us in defining exactly the period when the Master spoke this teaching; some time, however, in these last journeyings, that is, in the closing months of the public ministry, the parable in question was certainly spoken.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(9) Unto certain which trusted in themselves . . .--Here, as above, the purpose of the parable is stated at the outset. It is, perhaps, open for us to think that isolated fragments of our Lord's teaching, treasured up here and there in the memory of disciples, and written down in answer to St. Luke's inquiries in the second stage of the growth of the Gospel records, would be likely to have such an introduction.The "certain which trusted" are not specified as being actually Pharisees, and included, we may believe, disciples in whom the Pharisee temper was gaining the mastery, and who needed to be taught as by a reductio ad absurdum, what it naturally led to.Despised others.--Literally, the rest--viz., all others. The word for "despise," literally, count as nothing, is again one of those which St. Luke has, and the other Evangelists have not (that in Mark 9:12 differs in form), but which is frequent in the vocabulary of St. Paul (Romans 14:3; Romans 14:10; 1Corinthians 16:11, et al.). This universal depreciation of others would seem almost an exaggeration, if experience did not show--e.g., as in the history of Montanism and analogous forms of error--how easily men and women, religious societies and orders, drift into it, and how hard it is to set any limits to the monomania of egotism--above all, of religious egotism. It never uttered itself, perhaps, in a more repulsive form than when the Pharisees came to speak of the great mass of their brother-Israelites as the brute people, the "people of the earth."
