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Luke 12:56

You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and sky. Why don’t you know how to interpret the present time?

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ASV

Ye hypocrites, ye know how to interpret the face of the earth and the heaven; but how is it that ye know not how to interpret this time?

KJV

Ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time?

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
ὑποκριταί,hupokritaiHypocrites!G5273 →
τὸtoTheG3588 →
πρόσωπονprosōponappearanceG4383 →
τῆςtēsof theG3588 →
γῆςgēsearthG1093 →
καὶkaiandG2532 →
τοῦtouof theG3588 →
οὐρανοῦouranouskyG3772 →
οἴδατεoidateyou know [how]
δοκιμάζειν,dokimazeinto discern,G1381 →
τὸνtontheG3588 →
καιρὸνkairontimeG2540 →
δὲdehoweverG1161 →
τοῦτονtoutonthisG3778 →
πῶςpōshowG4459 →
οὐκouknotG3756 →
οἴδατεoidatedo you know
δοκιμάζειν;dokimazeinto discern?G1381 →

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Matthew 16:3and in the morning, ‘Today it will be stormy, for the sky is red and overcast.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but not the signs of the times.Matthew 24:32–33Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its branches become tender and sprout leaves, you know that summer is near.Matthew 11:25At that time Jesus declared, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.1 Chronicles 12:32From Issachar, men who understood the times and knew what Israel should do: 200 chiefs with all their kinsmen at their command.Luke 19:42–44and said, “If only you had known on this day what would bring you peace! But now it is hidden from your eyes.Daniel 9:24–26Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.Malachi 4:2“But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings, and you will go out and leap like calves from the stall.Galatians 4:4But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,Malachi 3:1“Behold, I will send My messenger, who will prepare the way before Me. Then the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to His temple—the Messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight—see, He is coming,” says the LORD of Hosts.Haggai 2:7I will shake all the nations, and they will come with all their treasures, and I will fill this house with glory, says the LORD of Hosts.Luke 12:1In the meantime, a crowd of many thousands had gathered, so that they were trampling one another. Jesus began to speak first to His disciples: “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.Matthew 16:11How do you not understand that I was not telling you about bread? But beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”Acts 3:24–26Indeed, all the prophets from Samuel on, as many as have spoken, have proclaimed these days.Matthew 6:2So when you give to the needy, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward.Matthew 7:5You hypocrite! First take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.John 14:9Jesus replied, “Philip, I have been with you all this time, and still you do not know Me? Anyone who has seen Me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?

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