40 And some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these words and said to Him, “We aren’t blind too, are we?”
John 9:40 Cross References - WPNT
Matthew 15:12-14
12 Then His disciples came and said to Him, “Do you know that upon hearing this saying the Pharisees were offended?”
13 But in answer He said: “Every plant that my heavenly Father did not plant will be uprooted.
14 Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind; and if the blind guides the blind, both will fall into a ditch.”
Matthew 23:16-28
16 “Woe to you blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple is obligated’.
17 Stupid and blind! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that sanctifies the gold?
18 And, ‘Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it is obligated’.
19 Stupid and blind!! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that sanctifies the gift?
20 Therefore he who swears by the altar swears by it and by all the things on it.
21 And he who swears by the temple swears by it and by Him who used to dwell in it.
22 And he who swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and by Him who sits on it.
23 “Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you pay a tithe of mint and dill and cummin, but have neglected the weightier items of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These it was obligatory to do, while not neglecting those.
24 Blind guides, who strain out a gnat but gulp down a camel!
25 “Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!! Because you cleanse the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of plunder and injustice.
26 Blind Pharisee! First cleanse the inside of the cup and the dish, so that their outside may also be clean.
27 “Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!!! Because you resemble whitewashed tombs, which indeed appear beautiful outwardly but inside are full of dead bones and of all uncleanness.
28 Just so you also outwardly appear to be righteous to the people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
Luke 11:39-54
39 So the Lord said to him: “Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but your inside is full of greed and malignancy.
40 Fools! Did not He who made the outside also make the inside?
41 Nevertheless, give what is possible as alms; then indeed all things are clean to you.
42 “But woe to you Pharisees! You tithe mint and rue and every herb, but you ignore justice and the love of God. These it was necessary to do, without leaving those undone.
43 Woe to you Pharisees! You love the best seat in the synagogues, and greetings in the marketplaces.
44 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like unperceived graves, that people walk on without knowing it.”
45 Then one of the lawyers reacted and said to him, “Teacher, by saying these things you insult us also!”
46 So He said: “Woe to you lawyers also! You load men down with burdens hard to carry, but you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers.
47 Woe to you! You build the tombs of the prophets, it being your fathers who killed them.
48 Thereby you witness to and approve of the deeds of your fathers; because they indeed killed them, while you build their tombs.
49 Also, because of this ‘the wisdom of God’ said: ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill and persecute’,
50 so that the blood of all the prophets which was shed from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation,
51 from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I say to you, it shall be required of this generation!
52 Woe to you lawyers! You have taken away the key of knowledge; you yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering!”
53 Well when He had said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge Him on vehemently and to cross-examine Him about many things,
54 lying in wait for Him, trying to catch Him in something He might say, so that they might accuse Him.
John 7:47-52
47 So the Pharisees answered: “You haven’t been fooled too, have you?
48 None of the rulers or the Pharisees have believed into him, have they?
49 But this crowd that doesn’t know the law is accursed!”
50 Nicodemus (the one who came to Him at night, being one of them) says to them,
51 “Our law doesn’t judge a man before it hears him and knows what he is doing, does it?”
52 They answered and said to him: “You aren’t from Galilee too, are you? Search and see that no prophet has ever arisen out of Galilee.”
John 9:34
34 They answered and said to him, “You were totally born in sins, and you are teaching us ?” And they expelled him.
Romans 2:19-22
19 Further, you are confident that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those in darkness,
20 an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of the immature, having in the Law the embodiment of knowledge and truth.
21 You, then, who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach not to steal, do you steal?
22 You who say not to commit adultery, do you adulterate? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?
Revelation 3:17
17 Because you say, “I am rich, even become wealthy, and have need of nothing,” and do not realize that you are the most wretched—yes, the most pitiable and poor and blind and naked—