Luke 12:56
You hypocrites, how is it that you know how to rightly interpret the weather but you don't know how to interpret the present time?
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55When a south wind blows, you say ‘it's going to be hot,’ and it is.
57Why don't you think for yourselves and judge what's the right thing to do?
Cross References
1 Chronicles 12:32From the tribe of Issachar came leaders who knew and could understand the signs of the times and what Israel should do—a total of 200 leaders of the tribe together with their relatives.
Haggai 2:7I will shake all the nations, and the one desired by all of the nations will come and I will fill this house with glory, says the Lord Almighty.
Malachi 4:2But for those who have reverence for me, the sun of God's salvation will rise with healing in its wings, and you will be set free, leaping like calves released from their stalls.
Matthew 16:3while in the morning you say, ‘It'll be bad weather today, because the sky is red and overcast.’ You know how to predict the weather by what the sky looks like, but you can't recognize the signs of the times!
Luke 19:42“I really wish today that you, even you, had known the path that leads to peace!” he said. “But now it's hidden from your eyes.
Galatians 4:4But at the appropriate time God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the rule of law,
Matthew Henry on Luke 12:55-59
Reconciliation to God. 54 And he said also to the people, When ye see a cloud rise out of the west, straightway ye say, There cometh a shower; and so it is. 55 And when ye see the south wind blow, ye say, There will be heat; and it cometh to pass. 56 Ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time? 57 Yea, and why even of yourselves judge ye not what is right? 58 When thou goest with thine adversary to the magistrate, as thou art in the way, give… Read the whole commentary →