1 Corinthians 1:22
And because Jews demand a sign and Greeks search for wisdom
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
In Context
23but we proclaim Christ crucified, truly to Jews a stumbling-block and to Gentiles foolishness.
Cross References
Matthew 16:1And the Pharisees and Sadducees who came, testing, demanded him to exhibit to them a sign from the sky.
Luke 11:16And others, challenging, sought from him a sign from the sky.
John 2:18The Jews therefore answered, and said to him, What sign do thou show us since thou do these things?
Acts 17:18And also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers encountered him. And some said, Whatever does this babbler want to say? But others, He seems to be a proclaimer of strange deities, because he brought the good-news--Jesus and t
Matthew Henry on 1 Corinthians 1:18-31
The Efficacy of the Gospel; The Character of the Gospel. ( a. d. 57.) 17 For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect. 18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. 19 For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. 20 Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the… Read the whole commentary →