Luke 12:56 - English Majority Text Version 2009

⁵⁶ Hypocrites! You know [how] to discern the face of the earth and of the sky, but how is it you do not discern this time?

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵⁶ Ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵⁶ You playactors (hypocrites)! You know how [intelligently] to discern and interpret and prove the looks of the earth and sky; but how is it that you do not know how to discern and interpret and apply the proof to this present time?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵⁶ Ye hypocrites, ye know how to interpret the face of the earth and the heaven; but how is it that ye know not how to interpret this time?

Common English Bible

⁵⁶ Hypocrites! You know how to interpret conditions on earth and in the sky. How is it that you don’t know how to interpret the present time?

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵⁶ You hypocrites! You discern the face of the heavens, and of the earth, yet how is it that you do not discern this time?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵⁶ You hypocrites, you know how to discern the face of the heaven and of the earth: but how is it that you do not discern this time?

Luke 12:56 Cross References

Matthew 11:25

At that time Jesus answered and said, "I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent, and have revealed them to babes.

Matthew 16:3

And in the morning, 'Today [will be ]stormy, for the sky is red and overcast.' Hypocrites! Indeed you know how to discern the face of the sky, but you cannot discern the signs of the times.

Matthew 6:2

Whenever therefore you do charitable giving, do not sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be praised by men. Assuredly I say to you, they receive their reward in full.

Galatians 4:4

But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,