Now He began to say to them, “Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”
Parallel translations
- WEB He began to tell them, “Today, this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”
- 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.”
- NLT Then he began to speak to them. “The Scripture you’ve just heard has been fulfilled this very day!”
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Quick answer
Jesus declares that the Scripture is fulfilled that very day in their hearing. He openly claims to be Isaiah's anointed Messiah.
Overview
Jesus startlingly announces that Isaiah's prophecy is fulfilled 'today' in His person and ministry. This is a direct claim to be the promised Spirit-anointed Deliverer. The long-awaited age of salvation has arrived in Him, demanding a response of faith.
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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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Luke shows Jesus the Savior for all — outsiders, the poor, the nations — the one who, on the Emmaus road, opened all the Scriptures to show they were about himself.
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