Fear gripped them all, and they began glorifying God, saying, “A great prophet has appeared among us!” and, “God has visited His people!”
Parallel translations
- WEB Fear took hold of all, and they glorified God, saying, “A great prophet has arisen among us!” and, “God has visited his people!”
- KJV And there came a fear on all: and they glorified God, saying, That a great prophet is risen up among us; and, That God hath visited his people.
- BSB A sense of awe swept over all of them, and they glorified God. “A great prophet has appeared among us!” they said. “God has visited His people!”
- NKJV Then fear came upon all, and they glorified God, saying, “A great prophet has risen up among us”; and, “God has visited His people.”
- NLT Great fear swept the crowd, and they praised God, saying, “A mighty prophet has risen among us,” and “God has visited his people today.”
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Quick answer
Awe seizes the crowd, and they glorify God, hailing Jesus as a great prophet and declaring that God has visited His people. The miracle prompts reverent worship and recognition.
Overview
The people's fear and praise reflect a fitting response to divine power among them. Their words echo Old Testament hopes of God visiting and redeeming His people. Though they call Jesus a prophet, the deeper truth is that in Him God Himself has come to visit and save, fulfilling the long-awaited promise of salvation.
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- Matt 9:8But when the multitudes saw it, they marveled and glorified God, who had given such authority to men.
- Jer 33:9This city shall be to me for a name of joy, for a praise and for a glory, before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do to them, and shall fear and tremble for all the good and for all the peace that I procure to it.’”
- Luke 7:39Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw it, he said to himself, “This man, if he were a prophet, would have perceived who and what kind of woman this is who touches him, that she is a sinner.”
- Luke 1:68“Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people;
- Luke 2:20The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, just as it was told them.
- Ps 106:4–5Remember me, Yahweh, with the favor that you show to your people. Visit me with your salvation,
- Ps 65:9You visit the earth, and water it. You greatly enrich it. The river of God is full of water. You provide them grain, for so you have ordained it.
- Luke 5:26Amazement took hold on all, and they glorified God. They were filled with fear, saying, “We have seen strange things today.”
- Matt 15:31so that the multitude wondered when they saw the mute speaking, the injured healed, the lame walking, and the blind seeing — and they glorified the God of Israel.
- Matt 21:11The multitudes said, “This is the prophet, Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee.”
- Exod 4:31The people believed, and when they heard that Yahweh had visited the children of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshiped.
- Luke 1:65Fear came on all who lived around them, and all these sayings were talked about throughout all the hill country of Judea.
- Luke 5:8But Simon Peter, when he saw it, fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, Lord.”
- John 1:21They asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the prophet?” He answered, “No.”
- Acts 5:11–13Great fear came on the whole assembly, and on all who heard these things.
- John 4:19The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.
- John 7:40–41Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, “This is truly the prophet.”
- Luke 8:37All the people of the surrounding country of the Gadarenes asked him to depart from them, for they were very much afraid. He entered into the boat, and returned.
- Gal 1:24And they glorified God in me.
- Luke 9:19They answered, “‘John the Baptizer,’ but others say, ‘Elijah,’ and others, that one of the old prophets is risen again.”
- John 9:17Therefore they asked the blind man again, “What do you say about him, because he opened your eyes?” He said, “He is a prophet.”
- Acts 5:5Ananias, hearing these words, fell down and died. Great fear came on all who heard these things.
- John 1:25They asked him, “Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?”
- Acts 3:22–23For Moses indeed said to the fathers, ‘The Lord God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him in all things whatever he says to you.
- John 6:14When therefore the people saw the sign which Jesus did, they said, “This is truly the prophet who comes into the world.”
- Matt 28:8They departed quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, and ran to bring his disciples word.
- Luke 24:19He said to them, “What things?” They said to him, “The things concerning Jesus, the Nazarene, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people;
- Acts 7:37This is that Moses, who said to the children of Israel, ‘The Lord our God will raise up a prophet for you from among your brothers, like me.’
- Luke 19:44and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn’t know the time of your visitation.”
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