Luke 2:26

The Spirit had promised Simeon he would not die before seeing the Lord's Christ. It matters because God graciously fulfills His personal promises to the faithful.

Cross-references · 18

• John 8:51Truly, truly, I tell you, if anyone keeps My word, he will never see death.”
• Heb 11:5By faith Enoch was taken up so that he did not see death: “He could not be found, because God had taken him away.” For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God.
• Luke 9:27But I tell you truthfully, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the kingdom of God.”
• Acts 10:38how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how Jesus went around doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, because God was with Him.
• John 20:31But these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in His name.
• Ps 25:14The LORD confides in those who fear Him, and reveals His covenant to them.
• Ps 89:48–49What man can live and never see death? Can he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah
• Acts 2:36Therefore let all Israel know with certainty that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ!”
• John 4:29“Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Christ?”
• Ps 2:6“I have installed My King on Zion, upon My holy mountain.”
• Ps 2:2The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together, against the LORD and against His Anointed One:
• John 1:41He first found his brother Simon and told him, “We have found the Messiah” (which is translated as Christ).
• Acts 9:20Saul promptly began to proclaim Jesus in the synagogues, declaring, “He is the Son of God.”
• Dan 9:24–26Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy Place.
• Acts 17:3explaining and proving that the Christ had to suffer and rise from the dead. “This Jesus I am proclaiming to you is the Christ,” he declared.
• Heb 1:8–9But about the Son He says: “Your throne, O God, endures forever and ever, and justice is the scepter of Your kingdom.
• Isa 61:1The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,
• Amos 3:7Surely the Lord GOD does nothing without revealing His plan to His servants the prophets.

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