1 Corinthians 1:22
Because the Jews ask for signs, and the Gentiles demand wisdom.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
In Context
Cross References
Matthew 16:1And Pharisees and Sadducees came near, tempting him, and asking him to show them a sign from heaven.
Luke 11:16And others, to tempt him, asked of him a sign from heaven.
John 2:18But the Jews replied, and said to him: What sign showest thou to us, since thou doest these things?
Acts 17:18And also philosophers of the sect of Epicureans, and others who were called Stoics, disputed with him. And one and another of them said: What doth this word-monger mean? Others said: He announceth foreign deities; because he preached to them Jesus and his resurrection.
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 →