22For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
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The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven. …
Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee. …
Then 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. …
Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?
And others, tempting him, sought of him a sign from heaven.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-31)We have here, I. The manner in which Paul preached the gospel, and the cross of Christ: Not with the wisdom of words (1 Cor. 1:17), the enticing words of man’s wisdom (1 Cor. 2:4), the flourish of oratory, or the accuracies of philosophical language, upon which the Greeks so much prided themselves, and which seem to have been the peculiar recommendations of some of the heads of the faction in this…
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