Seeing that (επειδη). Resumes from verse 21. The structure is not clear, but probably verses 23,24 form a sort of conclusion or ap…

For the Jews require a sign—that is, a miracle, a prodigy, an evidence of Divine interposition. This was the characteristic of the Jewish …

For.—This is a further unfolding of the fact of the simplicity of the preaching of the Cross. It pandered neither to Jewish-minded…

For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: but we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Gre…

To Paul, in God’s all-wise purpose human beings with all their philosophical and religious wisdom and searching “did not come to know God.” This is…

For the Jews require a sign. This is explanatory of the preceding statement—showing in what respects the preaching of the gospel is co…

For the Jews require a sign
The Jews has always been used to miracles, in confirmation of the mission of the prophet…

Paul had been educated in Jewish learning; but the plain preaching of a crucified Jesus was more powerful than all the oratory and philosophy of th…

After condemning their conflict with a reason based on baptism, the Apostle disapproves of it again with a reason based on doctrine. For some of th…