Luke 7:24 Cross References - JuliaSmith

²⁴ And the messengers of John having departed, he began to say to the crowds concerning John, What went ye forth into the desert to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

⁴ Vain glorious as water, thou shalt not be preeminent; for thou didst go up out of thy father's. bed; then didst thou defile, going up to my couch.

¹ In these days John the Baptist is present, proclaiming in the desert of Judea; ² And saying, Repent, for the kingdom of the heavens has drawn near. ³ For this is he spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, A voice of him crying in the desert, Prepare the way of the Lord; make his paths straight. ⁴ And this John had his garment from camel's hair, and a leather girdle about his loins, and his food was locusts and wild honey. ⁵ Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judea, and all round about Jordan;

⁷ And these going forth, Jesus began to say to the crowds concerning John, What went ye forth into the desert to see? A reed shaken by the wind? ⁸ But what went ye out to see? A man clad in soft garments? but they having soft things are in king's houses.

⁴ John was immersing in the desert, and proclaiming the immersion of repentance for the remission of sins. ⁵ And the Judean country, and the Jerusalemites, were going out to him, and all were being immersed by him in the river Jordan, acknowledging their sins.

⁸⁰ And the child grew, and was strengthened in spirit, and he was in the deserts till the day of his shewing forth to Israel.

² Upon Annas and Caiaphas being chief priests, the word of And was upon John, son of Zacharias in the desert.

²³ He said, I the voice of him crying in the desert, Make ye straight the way of the Lord, as said Esaias the prophet.

¹⁷ Therefore I resolved this, much less did I use levity: or what I resolve, do I resolve according to the flesh, that there be with me yea, yea, and nay, nay ¹⁸ And God faithful, for our word to you was not yea or nay. ¹⁹ For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who proclaimed in you by us, by me, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but was yea in him. ²⁰ Forasmuch as the solemn promises of God in him yea, and in him Amen, for glory to God by us.

¹⁴ That we be no more babes, tossed about, and carried around by every wind of doctrine, in the playing at dice of men, in craft, with the artifice of deceit;

⁶ And let him ask in faith, being at variance in nothing. For he being at variance is like the surge of the sea being moved by the wind and put in motion. ⁷ For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. ⁸ A man divided in opinion unsteady in all his ways.

¹⁷ These are fountains wanting water, clouds impelled by a hurricane; for whom the obscurity of darkness has been kept forever.

¹⁷ You therefore, dearly beloved, knowing beforehand, watch, lest, led away by the error of the lawless, ye fall from your own stability.