Luke 7:24

New English Translation

When John’s messengers had gone, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John: “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

Cross References

Genesis 49:4

You are destructive like water and will not excel, for you got on your father’s bed, then you defiled it – he got on my couch!

Luke 1:80

And the child kept growing and becoming strong in spirit, and he was in the wilderness until the day he was revealed to Israel.

Luke 3:2

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

Luke 7:23

Blessed is anyone who takes no offense at me.”

Luke 7:25

What did you go out to see? A man dressed in fancy clothes? Look, those who wear fancy clothes and live in luxury are in kings’ courts!

John 1:23

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

Ephesians 4:14

So we are no longer to be children, tossed back and forth by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching by the trickery of people who craftily carry out their deceitful schemes.

2 Peter 2:17

These men are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm, for whom the utter depths of darkness have been reserved.

2 Peter 3:17

Therefore, dear friends, since you have been forewarned, be on your guard that you do not get led astray by the error of these unprincipled men and fall from your firm grasp on the truth.