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1 Corinthians 1:22
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1 Corinthians 1:22
22For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
22For the *Iewes require a signe, and the Greekes seeke after wisedome.
- Matt. 12.38.
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1 Corinthians 1:22
Members of the Jewish people; Hebrews or Israelites identified as Jews.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To ask, demand, call for, or hold someone accountable for what is due.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Greek persons or persons belonging to the Greek-speaking world.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Later than, behind, following, or in pursuit of, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Sound judgment and the right use of knowledge; skill, discernment, or understanding.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Open the full verse study1THE Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven.
2He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red.
3And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?
4A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas. And he left them, and departed.
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Open the full verse study18Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.
19And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is?
20For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.
21(For all the Athenians and strangers which were there spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell, or to hear some new thing.)
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Open the full verse study18¶ Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?
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Open the full verse study16And others, tempting him, sought of him a sign from heaven.
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Open the full verse study11And the Pharisees came forth, and began to question with him, seeking of him a sign from heaven, tempting him.
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Open the full verse study38¶ Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee.
39But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:
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Open the full verse study20But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you.
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Open the full verse study28The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men,
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