In the same way a Levite also, when he came to the place, and saw him, passed by on the other side.
Parallel translations
- KJV And likewise a Levite, when he was at the place, came and looked on him, and passed by on the other side.
- BSB So too, when a Levite came to that spot and saw him, he passed by on the other side.
- NKJV Likewise a Levite, when he arrived at the place, came and looked, and passed by on the other side.
- NASB Likewise a Levite also, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side.
- NLT A Temple assistant walked over and looked at him lying there, but he also passed by on the other side.
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Cross-references · 4
- Acts 18:17Then all the Greeks laid hold on Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. Gallio didn’t care about any of these things.
- Prov 27:10Don’t forsake your friend and your father’s friend. Don’t go to your brother’s house in the day of your disaster: better is a neighbor who is near than a distant brother.
- Ps 109:25I have also become a reproach to them. When they see me, they shake their head.
- 2 Tim 3:2For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
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