Luke 6:39 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

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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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And he spake a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

He further told them a proverb: Can a blind [man] guide and direct a blind [man]? Will they not both stumble into a ditch or a hole in the ground?

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

Jesus also told them a riddle. “A blind person can’t lead another blind person, right? Won’t they both fall into a ditch?

Catholic Public Domain Version

Now he told them another comparison: "How can the blind lead the blind? Would they not both fall into a pit?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And he spoke also to them a similitude: Can the blind lead the blind? do they not both fall into the ditch?

Luke 6:39 Cross References

Isaiah 56:10

His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.

Isaiah 9:16

For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.

Jeremiah 6:15

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush; therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the Lord.

Jeremiah 8:12

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush; therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the Lord.

Matthew 13:3

And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying, Behold, a sower went forth to sow;

Matthew 15:14

Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

Matthew 23:33

Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?

Romans 2:19

and art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,

2 Timothy 3:13

But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.