Luke 6:39 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

³⁹ He also told them a parable: “Can a blind person guide a blind person? Will not both fall into a pit?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁹ 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

³⁹ 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)

³⁹ 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

³⁹ 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

³⁹ Now he told them another comparison: "How can the blind lead the blind? Would they not both fall into a pit?

Luke 6:39 Cross References

Isaiah 56:10

Israel's sentinels are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all silent dogs that cannot bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

Isaiah 9:16

for those who led this people led them astray, and those who were led by them were left in confusion.

Jeremiah 6:15

They acted shamefully, they committed abomination; yet they were not ashamed, they did not know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; at the time that I punish them, they shall be overthrown, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 8:12

They acted shamefully, they committed abomination; yet they were not at all ashamed, they did not know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; at the time when I punish them, they shall be overthrown, says the Lord.

Matthew 13:3

And he told them many things in parables, saying: “Listen! A sower went out to sow.

Matthew 15:14

Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind. And if one blind person guides another, both will fall into a pit.”

Matthew 23:33

You snakes, you brood of vipers! How can you escape being sentenced to hell?

Romans 2:19

and if you are sure that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

2 Timothy 3:13

But wicked people and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving others and being deceived.