Matthew 11:7

New Living Translation

As John’s disciples were leaving, Jesus began talking about him to the crowds. “What kind of man did you go into the wilderness to see? Was he a weak reed, swayed by every breath of wind?

Cross References

Genesis 49:4

But you are as unruly as a flood, and you will be first no longer. For you went to bed with my wife; you defiled my marriage couch.

Matthew 11:8

Or were you expecting to see a man dressed in expensive clothes? No, people with expensive clothes live in palaces.

Matthew 12:20

He will not crush the weakest reed or put out a flickering candle. Finally he will cause justice to be victorious.

Matthew 21:25

“Did John’s authority to baptize come from heaven, or was it merely human?” They talked it over among themselves. “If we say it was from heaven, he will ask us why we didn’t believe John.

Matthew 3:5

People from Jerusalem and from all of Judea and all over the Jordan Valley went out to see and hear John.

Luke 8:18

“So pay attention to how you hear. To those who listen to my teaching, more understanding will be given. But for those who are not listening, even what they think they understand will be taken away from them.”

John 1:38

Jesus looked around and saw them following. “What do you want?” he asked them. They replied, “Rabbi” (which means “Teacher”), “where are you staying?”

John 5:35

John was like a burning and shining lamp, and you were excited for a while about his message.

Ephesians 4:14

Then we will no longer be immature like children. We won’t be tossed and blown about by every wind of new teaching. We will not be influenced when people try to trick us with lies so clever they sound like the truth.

James 1:6

But when you ask him, be sure that your faith is in God alone. Do not waver, for a person with divided loyalty is as unsettled as a wave of the sea that is blown and tossed by the wind.