Verse 40. Ye fools. How unwise and wicked is your conduct! The word denotes not only want of wisdoms, but also wickedness. Comp. Ps 14:1; Pr 13:19; Pr 14:9.

Your conduct is not merely foolish, but it is a cloak for sin -- designed to countenance wickedness.

Did not he, &c. Did not God, who made the body, make also the soul? You Pharisees take great pains to cleanse the body, under a pretence of pleasing God. Did he not also make the mind? and is it not of as much importance that that should be pure, as that the body should?