And Jesus answered, “O faithless and twisted generation, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him here to me.”
For who were those who heard and yet rebelled? Was it not all those who left Egypt led by Moses? And with whom was he provoked for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? And to whom did he swear that they would not enter his rest, but to those who were disobedient? So we see that they were unable to enter because of unbelief.
And the Lord said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? And how long will they not believe in me, in spite of all the signs that I have done among them?
But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
And for about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.
Afterward he appeared to the eleven themselves as they were reclining at table, and he rebuked them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who saw him after he had risen.
And he answered them, “O faithless generation, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him to me.”
And he did not do many mighty works there, because of their unbelief.
And he said to them, “Why are you afraid, O you of little faith?” Then he rose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm.
“How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?
“How long shall this wicked congregation grumble against me? I have heard the grumblings of the people of Israel, which they grumble against me.
So Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and said to him, “Thus says the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.
Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here, and see my hands; and put out your hand, and place it in my side. Do not disbelieve, but believe.”
And he said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!
Jesus answered, “O faithless and twisted generation, how long am I to be with you and bear with you? Bring your son here.”
But Jesus, aware of this, said, “O you of little faith, why are you discussing among yourselves the fact that you have no bread?
O Jerusalem, wash your heart from evil, that you may be saved. How long shall your wicked thoughts lodge within you?
And the Lord said to Moses, “How long will you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?
How long will you lie there, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep?
For forty years I loathed that generation and said, “They are a people who go astray in their heart, and they have not known my ways.”
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