Luke 16:14
Good News Translation
When the Pharisees heard all this, they made fun of Jesus, because they loved money.

New Revised Standard Version
The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all this, and they ridiculed him.

Contemporary English Version
The Pharisees really loved money. So when they heard what Jesus said, they made fun of him.

New American Bible
The Pharisees, who loved money, heard all these things and sneered at him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now the Pharisees, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Now the Pharisees, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.

who.

Luke 12:15 And he said to them: Take heed and beware of all covetousness: for a man's life doth not consist in the abundance of things which he possesseth.

Luke 20:47 Who devour the houses of widows, feigning long prayer. These shall receive greater damnation.

Isaiah 56:11 And most impudent dogs, they never had enough: the shepherds themselves knew no understanding: all have turned aside into their own way, every one after his own gain, from the first even to the last.

Jeremiah 6:13 For from the least of them even to the greatest, all are given to covetousness: and from the prophet even to the priest, all are guilty of deceit.

Jeremiah 8:10 Therefore will I give their women to strangers, their fields to others for an inheritance: because from the least even to the greatest all follow covetousness: from the prophet even to the priest all deal deceitfully.

Ezekiel 22:25-29 There is a conspiracy of prophets in the midst thereof: like a lion that roareth and catcheth the prey, they have devoured souls, they have taken riches and hire, they have made many widows in the midst thereof. . . .

Ezekiel 33:31 And they come to thee, as if people were coming in, and my people sit before thee: and hear thy words, and do them not: for they turn them into a song of their mouth, and their heart goeth after their covetousness.

Matthew 23:14 Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you devour the houses of widows, praying long prayers. For this you shall receive the greater judgment.

derided.

Luke 8:53 And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead.

Luke 23:35 And the people stood beholding. And the rulers with them derided him, saying: He saved others: let him save himself, if he be Christ, the elect of God.

Psalm 35:15,16 But they rejoiced against me, and came together: scourges were gathered together upon me, and I knew not. . . .

Psalm 119:51 The proud did iniquitously altogether: but I declined not from thy law.

Isaiah 53:3 Despised, and the most abject of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with infirmity: and his look was as it were hidden and despised, whereupon we esteemed him not.

Jeremiah 20:7,8 Thou hast deceived me, O Lord, and I am deceived: thou hast been stronger than I, and thou hast prevailed. I am become a laughingstock all the day, all scoff at me. . . .

Hebrews 11:36 And others had trial of mockeries and stripes: moreover also of bands and prisons.

Hebrews 12:2,3 Looking on Jesus, the author and finisher of faith, who, having joy set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and now sitteth on the right hand of the throne of God. . . .

Context
The Law and the Prophets
13No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one and love the other: or he will hold to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. 14Now the Pharisees, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him. 15And he said to them: you are they who justify yourselves before men, but God knoweth your hearts. For that which is high to men is an abomination before God.…
Cross References
Matthew 9:24
He said: Give place, for the girl is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn.

Luke 23:35
And the people stood beholding. And the rulers with them derided him, saying: He saved others: let him save himself, if he be Christ, the elect of God.

2 Timothy 3:2
Men shall be lovers of themselves, covetous, haughty, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, wicked,

Luke 16:13
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