Matthew 11:7

Bible in Basic English 1965

And when they were going away, Jesus, talking of John, said to all the people, What went you out into the waste land to see? a tall stem moving in the wind?

Cross References

Genesis 49:4

But because you were uncontrolled, the first place will not be yours; for you went up to your father's bed, even his bride-bed, and made it unclean.

Matthew 11:8

But what went you out to see? a man delicately clothed? Those who have fair robes are in kings' houses.

Matthew 12:20

The crushed stem will not be broken by him; and the feebly burning light will he not put out, till he has made righteousness overcome all.

Matthew 21:25

The baptism of John, where did it come from? from heaven or from men? And they were reasoning among themselves, saying, If we say, From heaven; he will say to us, Why then did you not have faith in him?

Matthew 3:5

Then Jerusalem and all Judaea went out to him, and all the people from near Jordan;

Luke 8:18

So take care how you give hearing, for to him who has will be given, and from him who has not will be taken even what he seems to have.

John 1:38

And Jesus, turning round, saw them coming after him and said to them, What are you looking for? They said to him, Rabbi which is to say, Master, where are you living?

John 5:35

But the witness which I have is greater than that of John: the work which the Father has given me to do, the very work which I am now doing, is a witness that the Father has sent me.

Ephesians 4:14

So that we may be no longer children, sent this way and that, turned about by every wind of teaching, by the twisting and tricks of men, by the deceits of error;

James 1:6

Let him make his request in faith, doubting nothing; for he who has doubt in his heart is like the waves of the sea, which are troubled by the driving of the wind.