StoneCryAI Bible Dictionary

Luke 12:56

WEB

📖 Read Luke 12
◀ Luk 12:55Luk 12:57 ▶

You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how is it that you don’t interpret this time?

Context

53They will be divided, father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.”
54He said to the multitudes also, “When you see a cloud rising from the west, immediately you say, ‘A shower is coming,’ and so it happens.
55When a south wind blows, you say, ‘There will be a scorching heat,’ and it happens.
56You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how is it that you don’t interpret this time?
57Why don’t you judge for yourselves what is right?
58For when you are going with your adversary before the magistrate, try diligently on the way to be released from him, lest perhaps he drag you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer throw you into prison.
59I tell you, you will by no means get out of there, until you have paid the very last penny.”

Read full chapter →

Ask AI about this verse

Answers based solely on Scripture.

Ask directly

📖 Luke — All Chapters

123456789101112131415161718192021222324

Read Luke 12 →