When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing, and didn’t know that it was Jesus.
Parallel translations
- KJV And when she had thus said, she turned herself back, and saw Jesus standing, and knew not that it was Jesus.
- BSB When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there; but she did not recognize that it was Jesus.
- NKJV Now when she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, and did not know that it was Jesus.
- NASB When she had said this, she turned around and *saw Jesus standing there, and yet she did not know that it was Jesus.
- NLT She turned to leave and saw someone standing there. It was Jesus, but she didn’t recognize him.
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- Luke 24:16But their eyes were kept from recognizing him.
- Mark 16:9Now when he had risen early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons.
- Song 3:3–4The watchmen who go about the city found me; “Have you seen him whom my soul loves?”
- John 21:4But when day had already come, Jesus stood on the beach, yet the disciples didn’t know that it was Jesus.
- Matt 28:9As they went to tell his disciples, behold, Jesus met them, saying, “Rejoice!” They came and took hold of his feet, and worshiped him.
- John 8:59Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden, and went out of the temple, having gone through the middle of them, and so passed by.
- Luke 24:31Their eyes were opened, and they recognized him, and he vanished out of their sight.
- Mark 16:12After these things he was revealed in another form to two of them, as they walked, on their way into the country.
- Luke 4:30But he, passing through the middle of them, went his way.
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