Luke 7:31 BSB — MannaFest

Luke 7:31

“To what, then, can I compare the men of this generation? What are they like?

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation, and to what are they like?

KJV

And the Lord said, Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?

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Commentary

1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

And the Lord said - Almost every MS. of authority and importance, with most of the versions, omit these words. As the Evangelistaria (the books which contained those portions of the Gospels which were read in the Churches) began at this verse, the words were probably at first used by them, to introduce the following parable. There is the fullest proof that they never made a part of Luke’s text. Every critic rejects them. Bengel and Griesbach leave them out of the text.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Luke (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1858)

We learn, in the first place, from these verses — that the hearts of unconverted men are often desperately perverse as well as wicked. Our Lord brings out this lesson in a remarkable comparison — describing the generation of men among whom He lived while He was on earth. He compares them to children . He says, that children at play were not more wayward, perverse, and hard to please — than the Jews of His day. Nothing would satisfy them. They were always finding fault. Whatever ministry God employed among them — they took exception to it.

Voices on this verse

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
τίνι	tini	To what	G5101 →
οὖν	oun	therefore	G3767 →
ὁμοιώσω	homoiōsō	will I liken	G3666 →
τοὺς	tous	the	G3588 →
ἀνθρώπους	anthrōpous	men	G444 →
τῆς	tēs	of the	G3588 →
γενεᾶς	geneas	generation	G1074 →
ταύτης	tautēs	this	G3778 →
καὶ	kai	And	G2532 →
τίνι	tini	to what	G5101 →
εἰσὶν	eisin	are they	G1510 →
ὅμοιοι;	homoioi	like?	G3664 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

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 4:30
Then He asked, “To what can we compare the kingdom of God? With what parable shall we present it?
leads to
- Matthew 13:31–32
  He put before them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a man planted in his field.
- Luke 13:18–21
  Then Jesus asked, “What is the kingdom of God like? To what can I compare it?
- Lamentations 2:13
  What can I say for you? To what can I compare you, O Daughter of Jerusalem? To what can I liken you, that I may console you, O Virgin Daughter of Zion? For your…
Through
Lamentations 2:13
What can I say for you? To what can I compare you, O Daughter of Jerusalem? To what can I liken you, that I may console you, O Virgin Daughter of Zion? For your…
leads to
- Lamentations 1:12
  Is this nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look around and see! Is there any sorrow like mine, which was inflicted on me, which the LORD made me suffer on the day…
- 2 Samuel 5:20
  So David went to Baal-perazim, where he defeated the Philistines and said, “Like a bursting flood, the LORD has burst out against my enemies before me.” So he called that place Baal-perazim.
- Jeremiah 8:22
  Is there no balm in Gilead? Is no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?
- Jeremiah 14:17
  You are to speak this word to them: ‘My eyes overflow with tears; day and night they do not cease, for the virgin daughter of my people has been shattered by a crushing blow,…
- Jeremiah 30:12–15

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Luke

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

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About Luke