Luke 7:24

Luke chapter 7 · verse 24 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

And when the messengers of John were departed, he began to say unto the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to behold? a reed shaken with the wind?

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And when the messengers of John were departed, he began to speak unto the people concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness for to see? A reed shaken with the wind?

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

And when the messengers of John were departed, he began to say unto the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to behold? a reed shaken with the wind?

Context

v.23And blessed is he, whosoever shall find no occasion of stumbling in me.

v.24This passage

v.25But what went ye out to see? a man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they that are gorgeously apparelled, and live delicately, are in kings’ courts.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 2 Peter 3:17

    Ye therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware lest, being carried away with the error of the wicked, ye fall from your own stedfastness.

  • Luke 1:80

    And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his showing unto Israel.

  • 2 Peter 2:17

    These are springs without water, and mists driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness hath been reserved.

  • Ephesians 4:14

    that we may be no longer children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

  • Matthew 11:7

    And as these went their way, Jesus began to say unto the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to behold? a reed shaken with the wind?

  • 2 Corinthians 1:17

    When I therefore was thus minded, did I show fickleness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be the yea yea and the nay nay?