1 Corinthians 1:22
Since Jews indeed ask for signs, and Greeks seek wisdom;
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
In Context
23but *we* preach Christ crucified, to Jews an offence, and to nations foolishness;
Cross References
Matthew 16:1And the Pharisees and Sadducees, coming to [him], asked him, tempting [him], to shew them a sign out of heaven.
Luke 11:16And others tempting [him] sought from him a sign out of heaven.
John 2:18The Jews therefore answered and said to him, What sign shewest thou to us, that thou doest these things?
Acts 17:18But some also of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers attacked him. And some said, What would this chatterer say? and some, He seems to be an announcer of foreign demons, because he announced the glad tidings of Jesus and the resurrection [to them].
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 →