1 Corinthians 1:22
Good News Translation
Jews want miracles for proof, and Greeks look for wisdom.

New Revised Standard Version
For Jews demand signs and Greeks desire wisdom,

Contemporary English Version
Jews ask for miracles, and Greeks want something that sounds wise.

New American Bible
For Jews demand signs and Greeks look for wisdom,

Douay-Rheims Bible
For both the Jews require signs: and the Greeks seek after wisdom.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For both the Jews require signs: and the Greeks seek after wisdom.

the Jews.

Matthew 12:38,39 Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered him, saying: Master, we would see a sign from thee. . . .

Matthew 16:1-4 And there came to him the Pharisees and Sadducees tempting: and they asked him to shew them a sign from heaven. . . .

Mark 8:11 And the Pharisees came forth and began to question with him, asking him a sign from heaven, tempting him.

Luke 11:16,20 And others tempting, asked of him a sign from heaven. . . .

John 2:18 The Jews, therefore, answered, and said to him: What sign dost thou shew unto us, seeing thou dost these things?

John 4:28 The woman therefore left her waterpot and went her way into the city and saith to the men there:

the Greeks.

Acts 17:18-21 And certain philosophers of the Epicureans and of the Stoics disputed with him. And some said: What is it that this word sower would say? But others: He seemeth to be a setter forth of new gods. Because he preached to them Jesus and the resurrection. . . .

Context
The Message of the Cross
21For, seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world, by wisdom, knew not God, it pleased God, by the foolishness of our preaching, to save them that believe. 22For both the Jews require signs: and the Greeks seek after wisdom. 23But we preach Christ crucified: unto the Jews indeed a stumblingblock, and unto the Gentiles foolishness:…
Cross References
1 Kings 13:3
And he gave a sign the same day, saying: This shall be the sign, that the Lord hath spoken: Behold the altar shall be rent, and the ashes that are upon it, shall be poured out.

Matthew 12:38
Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered him, saying: Master, we would see a sign from thee.

John 4:48
Jesus therefore said to him: Unless you see signs and wonders, you believe not.

1 Corinthians 1:21
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