Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And when the messengers of John were departed, he began to speak unto the people concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness for to see? A reed shaken with the wind?

Bible References

Wilderness

Luke 1:80
And the child grew, and became strong in spirit. And he was in the desolate regions until the day of his manifestation to Israel.
Luke 3:2
in the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God became in John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.
Matthew 3:1
And in those days John the immerser comes, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, and saying,
Mark 1:4
It came to pass, that John was immersing in the wilderness and preaching an immersion of repentance for remission of sins.
John 1:23
He said, I am the voice of a man crying out in the wilderness: Make straight the way of Lord, just as the prophet Isaiah said.

A reed

Genesis 49:4
Boiling over as water, thou shall not have the pre-eminence, because thou went up to thy father's bed, then thou defiled it; he went up to my couch.
2 Corinthians 1:17
Therefore intending this, did I accordingly employ anything in lightness? Or what I decide, do I decide according to flesh, so that it would be with me the yes, yes and the no, no?
Ephesians 4:14
So that we may no longer be childish, tossed about and carried about by every wind of doctrine by the trickery of men in craftiness with the methodology of error.
James 1:6
But let him ask in faith, doubting nothing, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven by wind and tossed about.
2 Peter 2:17
These men are waterless wells, and clouds driven by a fierce wind, for whom the gloom of darkness has been reserved into an age.
2 Peter 3:17
Ye therefore, beloved, knowing in advance, keep watch, lest, having accommodated to the error of the lawless, ye fall from your own steadfastness.