Luke 18:10
8 I tell you, He will promptly carry out justice on their behalf. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on earth?”
9 To some who trusted in their own righteousness and viewed others with contempt, He also told this parable:
“Two men went up to the temple to pray. One was a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.
11 The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed, ‘God, I thank You that I am not like the other men—swindlers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector.
12 I fast twice a week and pay tithes of all that I acquire.’
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- “Two men went up to the temple to pray. One was a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.
- KJV
- Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican.
- WEB
- “Two men went up into the temple to pray; one was a Pharisee, and the other was a tax collector.
- ASV
- Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican.
- DARBY
- Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a tax-gatherer.
- BLB
- “Two men went up into the temple to pray, the one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.
- ÅB
- To menn gikk opp til templet for å be; den ene var en fariseer og den andre en toller.
- OTB
- “To menn gikk opp til tempelet for å be, den ene var en fariseer og den andre en toller.
- B1930
- To menn gikk op til templet for å bede; den ene var en fariseer og den andre en tolder.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Matthew 21:31–32
Which of the two did the will of his father?” “The first,” they answered. Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God before you.
Read in contextActs 3:1
One afternoon Peter and John were going up to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.
Read in context2 Kings 20:5
“Go back and tell Hezekiah the leader of My people that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. I will surely heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the house of the LORD.
Read in context1 Kings 8:30
Hear the plea of Your servant and of Your people Israel when they pray toward this place. May You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place. May You hear and forgive.
Read in context2 Kings 20:8
Now Hezekiah had asked Isaiah, “What will be the sign that the LORD will heal me and that I will go up to the house of the LORD on the third day?”
Read in contextLuke 1:9–10
he was chosen by lot, according to the custom of the priesthood, to enter the temple of the Lord and burn incense.
Read in contextLuke 7:29–30
All the people who heard this, even the tax collectors, acknowledged God’s justice. For they had received the baptism of John.
Read in contextActs 23:6–8
Then Paul, knowing that some of them were Sadducees and others Pharisees, called out in the Sanhedrin, “Brothers, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee. It is because of my hope in the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial.”
Read in context