Luke 7:24 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

²⁴ 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

²⁴ 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

²⁴ 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)

²⁴ 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

²⁴ 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

²⁴ And when the messengers of John had withdrawn, he began to speak about John to the crowds.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

²⁴ 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.