Luca 7:25

25 Ma che andaste a vedere? Un uomo avvolto in morbide vesti? Ecco, quelli che portano de’ vestimenti magnifici e vivono in delizie, stanno nei palazzi dei re.

Luca 7:25 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 7:25

But what went you out for to see?
&c.] If not his air and action, what was it? was it his apparel and dress? was it to see

a man clothed in soft raiment?
If this was the case, their labour was in vain, and they had their walk for nothing; for John was clothed with camels' hair, rough and undressed, and was girt with a leathern girdle; there was nothing in his person, mien, and garb, that was attractive:

they which are gorgeously, apparelled;
or richly clothed, as John was not:

and live delicately;
in the most elegant manner, and on the richest dainties, as John did not, his food being locusts and wild honey:

are in kings' courts;
and not in a wilderness, where John; came preaching.

Luca 7:25 In-Context

23 E beato colui che non si sarà scandalizzato di me!
24 Quando i messi di Giovanni se ne furono andati, Gesù prese a dire alle turbe intorno a Giovanni: Che andaste a vedere nel deserto? Una canna dimenata dal vento?
25 Ma che andaste a vedere? Un uomo avvolto in morbide vesti? Ecco, quelli che portano de’ vestimenti magnifici e vivono in delizie, stanno nei palazzi dei re.
26 Ma che andaste a vedere? Un profeta? Sì, vi dico, e uno più che profeta.
27 Egli è colui del quale è scritto: Ecco, io mando il mio messaggero davanti al tuo cospetto che preparerà la tua via dinanzi a te.
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