For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.
Parallel translations
- KJV For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.
- BSB For all the Prophets and the Law prophesied until John.
- NKJV For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.
- NASB For all the Prophets and the Law prophesied until John.
- NLT For before John came, all the prophets and the law of Moses looked forward to this present time.
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Cross-references · 8
- Matt 5:17–18“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill.
- Rom 3:21But now apart from the law, a righteousness of God has been revealed, being testified by the law and the prophets;
- Luke 24:44He said to them, “This is what I told you, while I was still with you, that all things which are written in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me must be fulfilled.”
- Acts 13:27For those who dwell in Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they didn’t know him, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.
- Acts 3:22–24For 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.
- Mal 4:6He will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.”
- Luke 24:27Beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.
- John 5:46–47For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me.
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