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Luke 18:10

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

“Two men went up to the Temple [in Jerusalem] to pray. One of them was a Pharisee and the other one was a tax collector.

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Philip, Bartholomew [i.e., the same as Nathaniel. See John 1:45], Thomas [i.e., the same as Didymus. See John 11:16], Matthew, the tax collector [i.e., the same as Levi. See Mark 2:14], James, the son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus [i.e., the same as Judas, son of James. See Luke 6:16],

saying to them, “It is written [Isa. 56:7], ‘And my house [i.e., the Temple] will be a house for prayer, but [Jer. 7:11] ‘You have made it a hideout for thieves.’”

They know of my early background; if they were willing to, they could testify that I lived as a [faithful] Pharisee, [which is] the strictest sect of our religion.

Now Peter and John were going to the Temple at three o’clock one afternoon [Note: Jewish time calculations are employed here], during the regular [Jewish] prayer hour.

[I was] circumcised eight days after I was born; [I am] from the nation of Israelites; from the tribe of Benjamin and of Hebrew ancestry [i.e., an outstanding Hebrew]. As far as the Law of Moses is concerned, [I am] a Pharisee [i.e., a strict sect of the Jewish religion].




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