Luke 7:24

Good News Translation

After John's messengers had left, Jesus began to speak about him to the crowds: “When you went out to John in the desert, what did you expect to see? A blade of grass bending in the wind?

Cross References

Genesis 49:4

You are like a raging flood, But you will not be the most important, For you slept with my concubine And dishonored your father's bed.

Luke 1:80

The child grew and developed in body and spirit. He lived in the desert until the day when he appeared publicly to the people of Israel.

Luke 3:2

and Annas and Caiaphas were High Priests. At that time the word of God came to John son of Zechariah in the desert.

Luke 7:23

How happy are those who have no doubts about me!”

Luke 7:25

What did you go out to see? A man dressed up in fancy clothes? People who dress like that and live in luxury are found in palaces!

John 1:23

John answered by quoting the prophet Isaiah: “I am ‘the voice of someone shouting in the desert: Make a straight path for the Lord to travel!’”

Ephesians 4:14

Then we shall no longer be children, carried by the waves and blown about by every shifting wind of the teaching of deceitful people, who lead others into error by the tricks they invent.

2 Peter 2:17

These people are like dried-up springs, like clouds blown along by a storm; God has reserved a place for them in the deepest darkness.

2 Peter 3:17

But you, my friends, already know this. Be on your guard, then, so that you will not be led away by the errors of lawless people and fall from your safe position.