Luke Chapter 6 verse 39 Holy Bible

ASV Luke 6:39

And he spake also a parable unto them, Can the blind guide the blind? shall they not both fall into a pit?
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BBE Luke 6:39

And he gave them teaching in the form of a story, saying, Is it possible for one blind man to be guide to another? will they not go falling together into a hole?
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DARBY Luke 6:39

And he spoke also a parable to them: Can a blind [man] lead a blind [man]? shall not both fall into [the] ditch?
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KJV Luke 6:39

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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WEB Luke 6:39

He spoke a parable to them. "Can the blind guide the blind? Won't they both fall into a pit?
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YLT Luke 6:39

And he spake a simile to them, `Is blind able to lead blind? shall they not both fall into a pit?
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 39. - And he spake a parable unto them. St. Luke closes his report of the great sermon with four little parables taken from everyday life. With these pictures drawn from common life, the Master purposed to bring home to the hearts of the men and women listening to him the solemn warnings he had just been enunciating. They - if they would be his followers - must indeed refrain from ever setting up themselves as judges of others. "See," he went on to say, "I will show you what ruin this wicked, ungenerous practice will result in: listen to me." Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch? It is not improbable that some of the links in the Master's argument here have been omitted by St. Luke; still, the connection of this saying and what follows, with the preceding grave warning against the bitter censorious spirit which had exercised so fatal an influence on religious teaching in Israel, is clear. The figure of the blind man setting himself up as a guide was evidently in the Lord's mind as a fair representation of the present thought-leaders of the people (the Pharisees). This is evident from the imagery of the beam and mote which follows (vers. 41, 42). Can these blind guides lead others more ignorant and blind too? What is the natural result? he asks; will not destruction naturally overtake the blind leader and the blind led? Both will, of course, end by falling into the ditch.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(39) And he spake a parable unto them.--The verse is noticeable (1) as causing a break in the discourse which has no parallel in the Sermon on the Mount; (2) as giving an example of the wider sense of the word "parable," as applicable to any proverbial saying that involved a similitude. On the proverb itself, quoted in a very different context, see Note on Matthew 15:14. Here its application is clear enough. The man who judges and condemns another is as the blind leader of the blind. Assuming St. Paul to have known the Sermon on the Plain, we may trace an echo of the words in the "guide of the blind" of Romans 2:19.