1 Corinthians 1:22 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

The Jews were not without some true Divine revelation, and owned the true God, and only desired some miraculous operation from Christ, Matthew 12:38 1 Thessalonians 4:48, to confirm them that Christ was sent from God: without signs and wonders they would not believe; giving no credit at all to the words of Christ. And the Greeks, (by whom the apostle understands the Gentiles), especially the more learned part of them, (for Greece was at this time very famous for human literature), they sought after the demonstration of all things from natural causes and rational arguments, and despised every thing which could not so be made out unto them.

1 Corinthians 1:22

22 For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: