World English Bible
"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?"
— Luke 12:56, World English Bible
“Ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time?”
“Ye hypocrites, ye know how to interpret the face of the earth and the heaven; but how is it that ye know not how to interpret this time? ”
“You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how can you not know how to interpret the present time?”
“You hypocrites, you know how to discern the face of the heaven and of the earth: but how is it that you do not discern this time?”
“O false ones! the face of the earth and the heaven is clear to you; how is it that the signs of these times are not as clear to you?”
“Ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time?”
They 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."
He 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.
When a south wind blows, you say, 'There will be a scorching heat,' and it happens.
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?
Why don't you judge for yourselves what is right?
For 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.
I tell you, you will by no means get out of there, until you have paid the very last penny."