Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
And he spoke also a parable to them: Can a blind man lead a blind man? shall not both fall into the ditch?
New American Standard Bible
And He also spoke a parable to them:
King James Version
And he spake a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch?
Holman Bible
He also told them a parable:
International Standard Version
He also told them a parable: "One blind person can't lead another blind person, can he? Both will fall into a ditch, won't they?
A Conservative Version
And he spoke a parable to them. Can a blind man lead a blind man? Will they not both fall into a ditch?
American Standard Version
And he spake also a parable unto them, Can the blind guide the blind? shall they not both fall into a pit?
Amplified
He also told them a parable:
An Understandable Version
Then Jesus told them a parable [i.e., a brief story to illustrate His teaching]: "Can a blind person lead a blind person? Will not both of them fall into a ditch?
Anderson New Testament
And he spoke a parable to them: Can the blind lead the blind? Will not both fall into the pit?
Bible in Basic English
And he gave them teaching in the form of a story, saying, Is it possible for one blind man to be guide to another? will they not go falling together into a hole?
Common New Testament
He also told them a parable: "Can a blind man lead a blind man? Will they not both fall into a pit?
Daniel Mace New Testament
And by way of comparison he said to them, can the blind lead the blind without tumbling both into the ditch?
Godbey New Testament
And He spoke a parable unto them, Whether is the blind able to lead the blind? will they not both fall into the ditch?
Goodspeed New Testament
And he used a figure saying, "Can one blind man lead another? Will they not both fall into a hole?
John Wesley New Testament
And he spoke a parable to them, Can the blind lead the blind? Will they not both fall into a ditch?
Julia Smith Translation
And he spake to them a parable, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch?
King James 2000
And he spoke a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch?
Lexham Expanded Bible
And he also told them a parable: "Surely a blind person cannot lead the blind, [can he]? Will they not both fall into a pit?
Modern King James verseion
And He spoke a parable to them: Can the blind lead the blind? Shall they not both fall into the ditch?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And he put forth a similitude unto them, "Can the blind lead the blind? Do they not both then fall into the ditch?
Moffatt New Testament
He also told them a parabolic word: "Can one blind man lead another? will they not both fall into a pit?
Montgomery New Testament
He also told them a parable. "Can a blind man lead a blind man? Will they not both fall into a pit?
NET Bible
He also told them a parable: "Someone who is blind cannot lead another who is blind, can he? Won't they both fall into a pit?
New Heart English Bible
He spoke a parable to them. "Can the blind guide the blind? Won't they both fall into a pit?
Noyes New Testament
And he spoke also a parable to them: Can the blind lead the blind? Will they not both fall into a ditch?
Sawyer New Testament
And he spoke also a parable to them; Can the blind lead the blind? Will not both fall into the pit?
The Emphasized Bible
He spake, moreover, a parable also, unto them: Can, the blind, guide, the blind? will not, both, fall into, a ditch?
Thomas Haweis New Testament
And he spake a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the blind? will they not both fall into the pit?
Twentieth Century New Testament
Then, speaking in parables, Jesus said: "Can one blind man guide another? Will they not both fall into a ditch?
Webster
And he spoke a parable to them; Can the blind lead the blind? will they not both fall into the ditch?
Weymouth New Testament
He also spoke to them in figurative language. "Can a blind man lead a blind man?" He asked; "would not both fall into the ditch?
Williams New Testament
Then He told them a story: "Can one blind man lead another? Will they not both fall into the ditch?
World English Bible
He spoke a parable to them. "Can the blind guide the blind? Won't they both fall into a pit?
Worrell New Testament
And He spake also a parable to them: "Can the blind lead the blind? Will they not both fall into a pit?
Worsley New Testament
And He said to them by way of parable, Can a blind man guide a blind man? will they not both fall into a ditch?
Youngs Literal Translation
And he spake a simile to them, 'Is blind able to lead blind? shall they not both fall into a pit?
Themes
Blindness » If the blind lead the blind
Jesus Christ » History of » Delivers the "sermon on the mount" (in galilee)
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References
Word Count of 37 Translations in Luke 6:39
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Sermon On The Plain: On Judging Others
38 Give, and it shall be given to you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall be given into your bosom: for with the same measure with which ye mete it shall be measured to you again. 39 And he spoke also a parable to them: Can a blind man lead a blind man? shall not both fall into the ditch? 40 The disciple is not above his teacher, but every one that is perfected shall be as his teacher.
Cross References
Matthew 15:14
Leave them alone; they are blind leaders of blind: but if blind lead blind, both will fall into a ditch.
Isaiah 9:16
For the guides of this people mislead them; and they that are guided by them are swallowed up.
Isaiah 56:10
His watchmen are all of them blind, they are without knowledge; they are all dumb dogs that cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber:
Jeremiah 6:15
Are they ashamed that they have committed abomination? Nay, they are not at all ashamed, neither know they what it is to blush. Therefore they shall fall among them that fall; at the time that I visit them they shall stumble, saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah 8:12
Are they ashamed that they have committed abomination? Nay, they are not at all ashamed, and they know not how to blush. Therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall stumble, saith Jehovah.
Jeremiah 14:15-16
Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, and who say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land: By sword and by famine shall those prophets be consumed;
Micah 3:6-7
therefore ye shall have night without a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, without divination; and the sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day shall be black over them.
Zechariah 11:15-17
And Jehovah said unto me, Take unto thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd.
Matthew 23:16-26
Woe to you, blind guides, who say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor.
Matthew 23:33
Serpents, offspring of vipers, how should ye escape the judgment of hell?
Romans 2:19
and hast confidence that thou thyself art a leader of the blind, a light of those who are in darkness,
1 Timothy 6:3-5
If any one teach differently, and do not accede to sound words, those of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the teaching which is according to piety,
2 Timothy 3:13
But wicked men and juggling impostors shall advance in evil, leading and being led astray.