Matthew 11:7

New English Translation

While they were going away, Jesus began to speak to the crowd 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!

Matthew 11:8

What did you go out to see? A man dressed in fancy clothes? Look, those who wear fancy clothes are in the homes of kings!

Matthew 12:20

He will not break a bruised reed or extinguish a smoldering wick, until he brings justice to victory.

Matthew 21:25

Where did John’s baptism come from? From heaven or from people?” They discussed this among themselves, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ‘Then why did you not believe him?’

Matthew 3:5

Then people from Jerusalem, as well as all Judea and all the region around the Jordan, were going out to him,

Luke 8:18

So listen carefully, for whoever has will be given more, but whoever does not have, even what he thinks he has will be taken from him.”

John 1:38

Jesus turned around and saw them following and said to them, “What do you want?” So they said to him, “Rabbi” (which is translated Teacher), “where are you staying?”

John 5:35

He was a lamp that was burning and shining, and you wanted to rejoice greatly for a short time in his light.

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.

James 1:6

But he must ask in faith without doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed around by the wind.