He questioned him with many words, but he gave no answers.
Parallel translations
- KJV Then he questioned with him in many words; but he answered him nothing.
- BSB Herod questioned Jesus at great length, but He gave no answer.
- NKJV Then he questioned Him with many words, but He answered him nothing.
- NASB And he questioned Him at some length; but He offered him no answer at all.
- NLT He asked Jesus question after question, but Jesus refused to answer.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Matt 27:14He gave him no answer, not even one word, so that the governor marveled greatly.
- Isa 53:7He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he didn’t open his mouth.
- Luke 13:32He said to them, “Go and tell that fox, ‘Behold, I cast out demons and perform cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I complete my mission.
- Ps 38:13–14But I, as a deaf man, don’t hear. I am as a mute man who doesn’t open his mouth.
- 1 Pet 2:23Who, when he was cursed, didn’t curse back. When he suffered, didn’t threaten, but committed himself to him who judges righteously;
- Ps 39:1–2For the Chief Musician. For Jeduthun. A Psalm by David. I said, “I will watch my ways, so that I don’t sin with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.”
- Matt 7:6“Don’t give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.
- Acts 8:32Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this, “He was led as a sheep to the slaughter. As a lamb before his shearer is silent, so he doesn’t open his mouth.
- Ps 39:9I was mute. I didn’t open my mouth, because you did it.
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