“You hypocrites, you know how to interpret the face of the earth and the heaven, but how is it that you do not know how to interpret this time?”

But Jesus considers that if they can take the trouble to note the signs of changing weather, they might also have taken the time to note the signs occurring through His ministry which are fulfilments of Old Testament prophecy (Luke 4:18; Luke 7:21), and thus have recognised that the last days were there. They were all ‘experts' on the weather. Why were they not equally experts in interpreting the Scriptures? The very words are a strong indication to them to wake up and recognise that this was the Lord's acceptable time (Luke 4:19).

‘Hypocrites.' They make a great play of being ‘the people of God', but inwardly they are more interested in the weather. Their profession is simply on the whole an act, for they do not live it out.

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