God Knows Your Hearts

Faithfulness, Reversal, and Hearing · Luke 16

Story guide: Jesus addresses three dignified Pharisee scholars in a Judean courtyard while ordinary listeners watch. Some Pharisees, described as lovers of money, ridicule Jesus.

Open this scene in the reader →

14The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, were hearing all these things and were ridiculing him.

15And he said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is exalted among men is detestable before God.”

16The Law and the Prophets were until John; from then on the kingdom of God is being proclaimed as good news, and everyone is forcing his way into it.

17But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one stroke of a letter of the Law to fall.

18Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.

Step through the story beside the Scripture itself. About the People’s Open Bible