Luke 12:56
Vain pretenders! You know how to read the aspect of earth and sky. How is it you cannot read this present time?
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
In Context
55And when you see a south wind blowing, you say, `It will be burning hot;' and it comes to pass.
57"Why, too, do you not of yourselves arrive at just conclusions?
Cross References
Matthew 16:3and in the morning, `It will be rough weather to-day, for the sky is red and murky.' You learn how to distinguish the aspect of the heavens, but the signs of the times you cannot.
Luke 19:42"O that at this time thou hadst known--yes even thou--what makes peace possible! But now it is hid from thine eyes.
Galatians 4:4But, when the time was fully come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born subject to 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 →