1 Corinthians 1:22 BSB

1 Corinthians 1:22

Jews demand signs and Greeks search for wisdom,

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Seeing that Jews ask for signs, and Greeks seek after wisdom:

KJV

For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:

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Commentary

2 voices

Cyprian

Treatise XII. Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews. (258)

That He also is both the wisdom and the power of God, Paul proves in his first Epistle to the Corinthians. "Because the Jews require a sign, and the Creeks seek after wisdom: but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews indeed a stumbling-block, and to the Gentiles foolishness; but to them that are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God."

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

For the Jews require a sign - Instead of σημειον, a sign, ABCDEFG, several others, both the Syriac, Coptic, Vulgate, and Itala, with many of the fathers, have σημεια, signs; which reading, as undoubtedly genuine, Griesbach has admitted into the text. There never was a people in the universe more difficult to be persuaded of the truth than the Jews: and had not their religion been incontestably proved by the most striking and indubitable miracles, they never would have received it.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

The signs the Jews craved for were not mere miracles, but direct tokens from heaven that Jesus was Messiah (Lu 11:16). Greeks seek . . . wisdom--namely, a philosophic demonstration of Christianity. Whereas Christ, instead of demonstrative proof, demands faith on the ground of His word, and of a reasonable amount of evidence that the alleged revelation is His word.

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ἐπειδὴ	epeidē	Seeing that	G1894 →
καὶ	kai	both	G2532 →
Ἰουδαῖοι	Ioudaioi	Jews	G2453 →
σημεῖα	sēmeia	signs	G4592 →
αἰτοῦσιν	aitousin	ask for	G154 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
Ἕλληνες	Hellēnes	Greeks	G1672 →
σοφίαν	sophian	wisdom	G4678 →
ζητοῦσιν,	zētousin	seek,	G2212 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Mark 8:11
Then the Pharisees came and began to argue with Jesus, testing Him by demanding from Him a sign from heaven.
leads to
- Matthew 12:38
  Then some of the scribes and Pharisees said to Him, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from You.”
- John 4:48
  Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will never believe.”
- 1 Corinthians 10:9
  We should not test Christ, as some of them did, and were killed by snakes.
- Exodus 17:7
  He named the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled, and because they tested the LORD, saying, “Is the LORD among us or not?”
- Luke 11:16
  And others tested Him by demanding a sign from heaven.
Through
Luke 11:16
And others tested Him by demanding a sign from heaven.
leads to
- Matthew 12:38–39
  Then some of the scribes and Pharisees said to Him, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from You.”
- Mark 8:11–12
  Then the Pharisees came and began to argue with Jesus, testing Him by demanding from Him a sign from heaven.
- Matthew 16:1–4
  Then the Pharisees and Sadducees came and tested Jesus by asking Him to show them a sign from heaven.