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?
Wilderness
Bible References
Wilderness
Luke 1:80
And the child grew, and was strengthened in spirit, and he was in the deserts till the day of his shewing forth to Israel.
Luke 3:2
Upon Annas and Caiaphas being chief priests, the word of And was upon John, son of Zacharias in the desert.
Matthew 3:1
In these days John the Baptist is present, proclaiming in the desert of Judea;
Mark 1:4
John was immersing in the desert, and proclaiming the immersion of repentance for the remission of sins.
John 1:23
He said, I the voice of him crying in the desert, Make ye straight the way of the Lord, as said Esaias the prophet.
A reed
Genesis 49:4
Vain glorious as water, thou shalt not be preeminent; for thou didst go up out of thy father's. bed; then didst thou defile, going up to my couch.
2 Corinthians 1:17
Therefore I resolved this, much less did I use levity: or what I resolve, do I resolve according to the flesh, that there be with me yea, yea, and nay, nay
Ephesians 4:14
That we be no more babes, tossed about, and carried around by every wind of doctrine, in the playing at dice of men, in craft, with the artifice of deceit;
James 1:6
And let him ask in faith, being at variance in nothing. For he being at variance is like the surge of the sea being moved by the wind and put in motion.
2 Peter 2:17
These are fountains wanting water, clouds impelled by a hurricane; for whom the obscurity of darkness has been kept forever.
2 Peter 3:17
You therefore, dearly beloved, knowing beforehand, watch, lest, led away by the error of the lawless, ye fall from your own stability.