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 8:51Most certainly, I tell you, if a person keeps my word, he will never see death.”
• Heb 11:5By faith, Enoch was taken away, so that he wouldn’t see death, and he was not found, because God translated him. For he has had testimony given to him that before his translation he had been well pleasing to God.
• Luke 9:27But I tell you the truth: There are some of those who stand here, who will in no way taste of death, until they see God’s Kingdom.”
• Acts 10:38even Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.
• John 20:31but these are written, that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in his name.
• Ps 25:14The friendship of Yahweh is with those who fear him. He will show them his covenant.
• Ps 89:48–49What man is he who shall live and not see death, who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.
• Acts 2:36“Let all the house of Israel therefore know certainly that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.”
• John 4:29“Come, see a man who told me everything that I did. Can this be the Christ?”
• Ps 2:6“Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”
• Ps 2:2The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahweh, and against his Anointed, saying,
• John 1:41He first found his own brother, Simon, and said to him, “We have found the Messiah!” (which is, being interpreted, Christ ).
• Acts 9:20Immediately in the synagogues he proclaimed the Christ, that he is the Son of God.
• Dan 9:24–26Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to finish disobedience, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
• Acts 17:3explaining and demonstrating that the Christ had to suffer and rise again from the dead, and saying, “This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ.”
• Heb 1:8–9But of the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your Kingdom.
• Isa 61:1The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to those who are bound;
• Amos 3:7Surely the Lord Yahweh will do nothing, unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.

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