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The multitudes said, “This is the prophet, Jesus, from Nazareth of Galilee.”
Matthew 21:11 · World English Bible
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  • KJV And the multitude said, This is Jesus the prophet of Nazareth of Galilee.
  • BSB The crowds replied, “This is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth in Galilee.”
  • NKJV So the multitudes said, “This is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth of Galilee.”
  • NASB And the crowds were saying, “This is Jesus the prophet, from Nazareth in Galilee.”
  • NLT And the crowds replied, “It’s Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth in Galilee.”

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Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 17

  • John 6:14When therefore the people saw the sign which Jesus did, they said, “This is truly the prophet who comes into the world.”
  • Luke 7:16Fear took hold of all, and they glorified God, saying, “A great prophet has arisen among us!” and, “God has visited his people!”
  • John 7:40Many of the multitude therefore, when they heard these words, said, “This is truly the prophet.”
  • Matt 2:23and came and lived in a city called Nazareth; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through the prophets: “He will be called a Nazarene.”
  • 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.’
  • Deut 18:15–19Yahweh your God will raise up to you a prophet from among you, of your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him.
  • 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.”
  • John 1:21They asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the prophet?” He answered, “No.”
  • 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.
  • Matt 16:13–14Now when Jesus came into the parts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, “Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?”
  • John 4:19The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.
  • Mark 6:15But others said, “He is Elijah.” Others said, “He is a prophet, or like one of the prophets.”
  • John 1:45–46Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, “We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”
  • 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;
  • John 1:25They asked him, “Why then do you baptize, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?”
  • Luke 13:33Nevertheless I must go on my way today and tomorrow and the next day, for it can’t be that a prophet perish outside of Jerusalem.’
  • 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.”

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