1 Corinthians 1:22

Seeing that Jews demand miracles, and Greeks go in search of wisdom,

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:

In Context

21For after the world by its wisdom--as God in His wisdom had ordained--had failed to gain the knowledge of God, God was pleased, by the apparent foolishness of the Message which we preach, to save those who accepted it.

23while we proclaim a Christ who has been crucified--to the Jews a stumbling-block, to Gentiles foolishness,

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Cross References

Matthew 16:1Here the Pharisees and Sadducees came to Him; and, to make trial of Him, they asked Him to show them a sign in the sky.

Luke 11:16Others, to put Him to the test, asked Him for a sign in the sky.

John 2:18So the Jews asked Him, "What proof of your authority do you exhibit to us, seeing that you do these things?"

Acts 17:18A few of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also encountered him. Some of them asked, "What has this beggarly babbler to say?" "His business," said others, "seems to be to cry up some foreign gods." This was because he had been telling the Good News of Jesus and the 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 →

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