Matthew 16:2
He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red.
KJV
ὁ δὲ ἀποκριθεὶς εἶπεν αὐτοῖς, [ὀψίας γενομένης λέγετε· εὐδία, πυρράζει γὰρ ὁ οὐρανός·
Greek NT
At ille respondens, ait illis : Facto vespere dicitis : Serenum erit, rubicundum est enim cælum.
Vulgate
But he answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the heaven is red.
ASV
But he answered and said to them: When it is evening, you say, It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
11 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
- Ὀψίας γενομένης λέγετε Εὐδία πυρράζει γὰρ ὁ οὐρανός καὶ πρωΐ Σήμερον χειμών πυρράζει γὰρ στυγνάζων ὁ οὐρανός τὸ · , · · , . — SBLGNT
- τὸ — Westcott-Hort (spurious), Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- Ὑποκριταί τὸ — Robinson-Pierpont
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§540Jesus' temptation reveals the way in which the Son of God is Messiah, contrary to the way Satan proposes to him and the way men wish to attribute to him.244 This is why Christ vanquished the Tempter for us: "For we have not a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tested as we are, yet without sinning."245 By the solem…
Cross-references
- Gen 1:14 — And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
- Luke 12:54 — And he said also to the people, When ye see a cloud rise out of the west, straightway ye say, There cometh a shower; and so it is.
- Luke 12:54 — And he said also to the people, When ye see a cloud rise out of the west, straightway ye say, There cometh a shower; and so it is.