He ran on ahead, and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was going to pass that way.
Parallel translations
- KJV And he ran before, and climbed up into a sycomore tree to see him: for he was to pass that way.
- BSB So he ran on ahead and climbed a sycamore tree to see Him, since Jesus was about to pass that way.
- NKJV So he ran ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see Him, for He was going to pass that way.
- NASB So he ran on ahead and climbed up a sycamore tree in order to see Him, because He was about to pass through that way.
- NLT So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore-fig tree beside the road, for Jesus was going to pass that way.
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- Isa 9:10“The bricks have fallen, but we will build with cut stone. The sycamore fig trees have been cut down, but we will put cedars in their place.”
- Luke 5:19Not finding a way to bring him in because of the multitude, they went up to the housetop, and let him down through the tiles with his cot into the middle before Jesus.
- 1 Chr 27:28and over the olive trees and the sycamore trees that were in the lowland was Baal Hanan the Gederite; and over the cellars of oil was Joash;
- Amos 7:14Then Amos answered Amaziah, “I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet’s son; but I was a herdsman, and a farmer of sycamore figs;
- 1 Kgs 10:27The king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem, and cedars as common as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland.
- Ps 78:47He destroyed their vines with hail, their sycamore fig trees with frost.
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