Luke 18:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

By the term certain, or some, he unquestionably understandeth the Pharisees and their disciples, who (as we have all along in the history of the Gospel observed) were a generation of men who were eminently guilty both of a boasting of themselves, and a scorning and despising all others.

Luke 18:9

9 And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves thatb they were righteous, and despised others: