Luke 6:39

39-45. Sincerity. Four Comparisons.

39. Can the blind lead the blind? Matthew 15:14; Proverbs 19:27, "Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err." St Paul taunts the Jew with professing to be "a guide of the blind," Romans 2:19. St Luke calls this "a parable" in the broader sense (see on Luke 4:23); and in this Gospel the Sermon thus ends with four vivid -parables" or similes taken from the sights of daily life blind leaders of blind; the mote and the beam; good and bad fruit; the two houses.