But I will stay at Ephesus until Pentecost,
Parallel translations
- KJV But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost.
- BSB But I will stay in Ephesus until Pentecost,
- NKJV But I will tarry in Ephesus until Pentecost.
- NASB But I will remain in Ephesus until Pentecost;
- NLT In the meantime, I will be staying here at Ephesus until the Festival of Pentecost.
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Cross-references · 5
- Acts 2:1Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place.
- Exod 23:16And the feast of harvest, the first fruits of your labors, which you sow in the field; and the feast of ingathering, at the end of the year, when you gather in your labors out of the field.
- 1 Cor 15:32If I fought with animals at Ephesus for human purposes, what does it profit me? If the dead are not raised, then “let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”
- Lev 23:15–21“‘You shall count from the next day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven Sabbaths shall be completed:
- Acts 18:19He came to Ephesus, and he left them there; but he himself entered into the synagogue, and reasoned with the Jews.
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