He spoke a parable to them. “Can the blind guide the blind? Won’t they both fall into a pit?
Parallel translations
- KJV And he spake a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch?
- BSB Jesus also told them a parable: “Can a blind man lead a blind man? Will they not both fall into a pit?
- NKJV And He spoke a parable to them: “Can the blind lead the blind? Will they not both fall into the ditch?
- NASB Now He also spoke a parable to them: “A person who is blind cannot guide another who is blind, can he? Will they not both fall into a pit?
- NLT Then Jesus gave the following illustration: “Can one blind person lead another? Won’t they both fall into a ditch?
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- Matt 15:14Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.”
- 2 Tim 3:13But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.
- Isa 9:16For those who lead this people lead them astray; and those who are led by them are destroyed.
- Matt 23:16–26“Woe to you, you blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.’
- Jer 14:15–16Therefore Yahweh says concerning the prophets who prophesy in my name, and I didn’t send them, yet they say, ‘Sword and famine will not be in this land.’ Those prophets will be consumed by sword and famine.
- 1 Tim 6:3–5If anyone teaches a different doctrine, and doesn’t consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness,
- Zech 11:15–17Yahweh said to me, “Take for yourself yet again the equipment of a foolish shepherd.
- Jer 8:12Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among those who fall; in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, says Yahweh.
- Jer 6:15Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; at the time that I visit them, they shall be cast down,” says Yahweh.
- Isa 56:10His watchmen are blind. They are all without knowledge. They are all mute dogs. They can’t bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
- Matt 23:33You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?
- Rom 2:19and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,
- Mic 3:6–7“Therefore night is over you, with no vision, and it is dark to you, that you may not divine; and the sun will go down on the prophets, and the day will be black over them.
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