Luke 7:25 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

²⁵ What did you expect to see? A man dressed in fancy clothes? Look, people who wear elaborate outfits and bask in luxury live in kings’ palaces.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁵ But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they which are gorgeously apparelled, and live delicately, are in kings' courts.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁵ Then what did you go out to see? A man dressed up in soft garments? Behold, those who wear fine apparel and live in luxury are in the courts or palaces of kings.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁵ But what went ye out to see? a man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they that are gorgeously apparelled, and live delicately, are in kings’ courts.

Common English Bible

²⁵ What did you go out to see? A man dressed up in refined clothes? Look, those who dress in fashionable clothes and live in luxury are in royal palaces.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁵ Then what did you go out to see? A man clothed in soft garments? Behold, those who are in costly apparel and finery are in the houses of kings.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁵ But what went you out to see? a man clothed in soft garments? Behold they that are in costly apparel and live delicately, are in the houses of kings.

Luke 7:25 Cross References

Matthew 11:8

What did you expect to see? A man dressed in fancy clothes? Look, people who wear fancy clothes live in kings’ palaces.

Matthew 3:4

Now John dressed in clothing made of camel’s hair and he wore a leather belt around his waist; he ate grasshoppers and wild honey [i.e., for his regular diet].

Matthew 6:29

yet I tell you that even Solomon, clothed in his very finest royal robes, was never dressed [as luxuriously] as one of these flowers.

Luke 16:19

“Now there was a certain rich man who was dressed in purple [clothing] and soft linen [garments] and who lived every day in pleasure and luxury.

Luke 7:24

And when the messengers sent by John left, Jesus began saying to the crowds about John, “What did you expect to see when you went out into the desert? A tall stem swaying in the wind?

Luke 7:26

But what did you go out to see? A prophet? Yes, I will say [he is], and much more than a prophet.