Then one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, and saying,
Luke 7:30 - English Majority Text Version 2009 But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God for themselves, because they had not been baptized by him. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But the Pharisees and the lawyers [of the Mosaic Law] annulled and rejected and brought to nothing God's purpose concerning themselves, by [refusing and] not being baptized by him [John]. American Standard Version (1901) But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected for themselves the counsel of God, being not baptized of him. Common English Bible But the Pharisees and legal experts rejected God’s will for themselves because they hadn’t been baptized by John. Catholic Public Domain Version But the Pharisees and the experts in the law despised the counsel of God concerning themselves, by not being baptized by him. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But the Pharisees and the lawyers despised the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized by him. |
Then one of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, and saying,
"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, like a hen [gathers] her brood under her wings, but you were not willing!
But if we say, 'From men,' all the people will stone us, for they are persuaded [that] John was a prophet."
"Therefore to what shall I compare the men of this generation, and what are they like?
But to Israel he says: "the whole day long I have stretched out My hands to a disobedient and obstinate people."
And working together [with Him,] we also urge that you not receive the grace of God in vain.
I do not annul the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died for nothing."
In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will,