Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And as they departed, Jesus began to say unto the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the wind?
Jesus
General references
Bible References
Jesus
Luke 7:24
When John's messengers had departed, he began to tell the multitudes about John, "What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?
A reed
Genesis 49:4
Boiling over as water, you shall not excel; because you went up to your father's bed, then defiled it. He went up to my couch.
2 Corinthians 1:17
When I therefore was thus determined, did I show fickleness? Or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be the "Yes, yes" and the "No, no?"
Ephesians 4:14
that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;
James 1:6
But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.
General references
Matthew 3:5
Then people from Jerusalem, all of Judea, and all the region around the Jordan went out to him.
Luke 6:5
He said to them, "The Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath."