This was the Lord’s doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?
Parallel translations
- WEB This was from the Lord, it is marvelous in our eyes’?”
- BSB This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?”
- NKJV This was the Lord’s doing, And it is marvelous in our eyes’ ?”
- NASB This came about from the Lord, And it is marvelous in our eyes’?”
- NLT This is the Lord’s doing, and it is wonderful to see.’”
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Jesus completes the quotation: this is the Lord's doing and marvelous in our eyes.
Overview
The exaltation of the rejected stone is wholly God's work, accomplished against human expectation. The cross and resurrection are the Lord's marvelous design, turning rejection into triumph. Believers stand amazed at how God brings salvation through what the world despised.
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Cross-references · 10
- Ps 118:23This is the LORD’s doing; it is marvellous in our eyes.
- Acts 3:12–16And when Peter saw it, he answered unto the people, Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this? or why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk?
- Hab 1:5Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you.
- Acts 2:32–36This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.
- Acts 13:40–41Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets;
- 1 Tim 3:16And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.
- Num 23:23Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel: according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought!
- Acts 2:12And they were all amazed, and were in doubt, saying one to another, What meaneth this?
- Eph 3:8–11Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;
- Col 1:27To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
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