Luke 7:24 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

2 They are like to children sitting in the marketplace, and speaking one to another, and saying: We have piped to you, and you have not danced: we have mourned, and you have not wept.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And when the messengers of John were departed, he began to speak unto the people concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness for to see? A reed shaken with the wind?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And the messengers of John having departed, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John: What did you go out into the desert to gaze on? A reed shaken and swayed by the wind?

American Standard Version (1901)

And when the messengers of John were departed, he began to say unto the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to behold? a reed shaken with the wind?

Common English Bible

After John’s messengers were gone, Jesus spoke to the crowds about John. “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A stalk blowing in the wind?

Catholic Public Domain Version

And when the messengers of John had withdrawn, he began to speak about John to the crowds. "What did you go out to the desert to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And when the messengers of John were departed, he began to speak to the multitudes concerning John. What went ye out into the desert to see? a reed shaken with the wind?

Luke 7:24 Cross References

Genesis 49:4

Simeon and Levi brethren: vessels of iniquity, waging war.

Luke 1:80

And there were in the same country shepherds watching, and keeping the night watches over their flock.

Luke 3:2

0 And the people asked him, saying: What then shall we do?

Luke 7:23

1 And the Lord said: Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?

Luke 7:25

3 For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and you say: He hath a devil.

John 1:23

1 And I knew him not, but that he may be made manifest in Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water.

Ephesians 4:14

3 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind:

2 Peter 2:17

Saying: Where is his promise or his coming? for since the time that the fathers slept, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

2 Peter 3:17

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.