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 8:51Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.
• Heb 11:5By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.
• Luke 9:27But I tell you of a truth, there be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the kingdom of God.
• Acts 10:38How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.
• John 20:31But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name.
• Ps 25:14The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant.
• Ps 89:48–49What man is he that liveth, and shall not see death? shall he deliver his soul from the hand of the grave? Selah.
• Acts 2:36Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.
• John 4:29Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?
• Ps 2:6Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
• Ps 2:2The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,
• John 1:41He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ.
• Acts 9:20And straightway he preached Christ in the synagogues, that he is the Son of God.
• Dan 9:24–26Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
• Acts 17:3Opening and alleging, that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ.
• Heb 1:8–9But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.
• Isa 61:1The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;
• Amos 3:7Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.

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