Luke 7:24

Modern English Version

When the messengers of John had departed, He began to speak to the crowd concerning John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

Cross References

Genesis 49:4

Unstable as water, you shall not excel, because you went up to your father’s bed; then you defiled it—he went up to my couch.

Luke 1:80

And the child grew and became strong in spirit, and he remained in the wilderness until the day of his appearance to Israel.

Luke 3:2

Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness.

Luke 7:23

Blessed is he who does not fall away on account of Me.”

Luke 7:25

What then did you go out to see? A man dressed in fine clothes? Behold, those who are splendidly clothed and live luxuriously are in royal palaces.

John 1:23

John said, “I am the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ just as the prophet Isaiah said.”

Ephesians 4:14

so we may no longer be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about with every wind of teaching by the trickery of men, by craftiness with deceitful scheming.

2 Peter 2:17

These men are wells without water and clouds that are carried by a storm, for whom the gloom of darkness has been reserved forever.

2 Peter 3:17

You therefore, beloved, since you know these things beforehand, beware lest you also fall from your own firm footing, being led away by the deception of the wicked.