Matthew 16:2
Good News Translation
But Jesus answered, "When the sun is setting, you say, 'We are going to have fine weather, because the sky is red.'

New Revised Standard Version
He answered them, “When it is evening, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.’

Contemporary English Version
He told them: If the sky is red in the evening, you say the weather will be good.

New American Bible
He said to them in reply, “[In the evening you say, ‘Tomorrow will be fair, for the sky is red’;

Douay-Rheims Bible
But he answered and said to them: When it is evening, you say, It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But he answered and said to them: When it is evening, you say, It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.

When.

Luke 12:54-56 And he said also to the multitudes: When you see a cloud rising from the west, presently you say: A shower is coming. And so it happeneth. . . .

Context
The Demand for a Sign
1And there came to him the Pharisees and Sadducees tempting: and they asked him to shew them a sign from heaven. 2But he answered and said to them: When it is evening, you say, It will be fair weather, for the sky is red. 3And in the morning: To day there will be a storm, for the sky is red and lowering. You know then how to discern the face of the sky: and can you not know the signs of the times?…
Cross References
Luke 12:54
And he said also to the multitudes: When you see a cloud rising from the west, presently you say: A shower is coming. And so it happeneth.

Matthew 16:3
And in the morning: To day there will be a storm, for the sky is red and lowering. You know then how to discern the face of the sky: and can you not know the signs of the times?

Matthew 16:1
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