Matthew 21:16 Cross References - Thomson

¹⁶ and said to him, Hearest thou what these say? Jesus saith to them, Yes. Have you never read, "From the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise."

² From the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise, on account of thine enemies; [on account] of destroying an enemy and a revenger.

²⁵ At that time Jesus took occasion to say, I thank thee, O father, Lord of heaven and earth; that thou having hid these things from the wise and prudent, hast revealed them to babes.

³ Whereupon he said to them, Have you not read, what David did when he was hungry, and they who were with him?

⁴ In reply to which he said to them, "Have you not read that the Creator at the beginning made them a male and a female?"

³¹ But in respect to the revival of the dead. Have you not read what was spoken to you: by God, saying,

²⁵ And he said to them, Did you never read what David did when he was in a strait; and he and his company were hungry?

³⁹ Upon this, some of the Pharisees who were in the crowd, said to him, Teacher, rebuke these disciples of thine. ⁴⁰ In reply to which, he said to them, I tell you, If these keep silence, those stones would exclaim.

⁴⁷ Whereupon the chief priests and the Pharisees assembled the Sanhedrim, and said, What are we doing? Because this man doth many miracles, ⁴⁸ if we let him go on thus, all will believe in him, and the Romans will come and destroy both this place and this nation of ours.

¹⁶ saying, What can we do with these men? For that a signal miracle hath indeed been done by them, is manifest to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it. ¹⁷ But that it may not spread farther among the people, let us severely threaten them not to speak any more for this name to any man. ¹⁸ So having called them in, they gave them this general charge, not to make solemn addresses, nor teach, for the name of that Jesus.