He began to tell them, “Today, this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”
Parallel translations
- KJV And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.
- BSB and He began by saying, “Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”
- NKJV And He began to say to them, “Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”
- NASB Now He began to say to them, “Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”
- NLT Then he began to speak to them. “The Scripture you’ve just heard has been fulfilled this very day!”
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Cross-references · 7
- John 4:25–26The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah comes, he who is called Christ. When he has come, he will declare to us all things.”
- Matt 13:14In them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says, ‘By hearing you will hear, and will in no way understand; Seeing you will see, and will in no way perceive:
- Acts 3:18But the things which God announced by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled.
- Acts 2:16–18But this is what has been spoken through the prophet Joel:
- Luke 10:23–24Turning to the disciples, he said privately, “Blessed are the eyes which see the things that you see,
- Acts 2:29–33“Brothers, I may tell you freely of the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.
- John 5:39“You search the Scriptures, because you think that in them you have eternal life; and these are they which testify about me.
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