He left them, and went out of the city to Bethany, and camped there.
Parallel translations
- KJV And he left them, and went out of the city into Bethany; and he lodged there.
- BSB Then He left them and went out of the city to Bethany, where He spent the night.
- NKJV Then He left them and went out of the city to Bethany, and He lodged there.
- NASB And He left them and went out of the city to Bethany, and spent the night there.
- NLT Then he returned to Bethany, where he stayed overnight.
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- John 11:18Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia away.
- Luke 24:50He led them out as far as Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them.
- Mark 11:11Jesus entered into the temple in Jerusalem. When he had looked around at everything, it being now evening, he went out to Bethany with the twelve.
- John 11:1Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus from Bethany, of the village of Mary and her sister, Martha.
- Mark 11:19When evening came, he went out of the city.
- Matt 16:4An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and there will be no sign given to it, except the sign of the prophet Jonah.” He left them, and departed.
- Luke 19:29When he came near to Bethsphage and Bethany, at the mountain that is called Olivet, he sent two of his disciples,
- Luke 8:37–38All 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.
- Mark 11:1When they came near to Jerusalem, to Bethsphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples,
- Luke 10:38As they went on their way, he entered into a certain village, and a certain woman named Martha received him into her house.
- Mark 3:7Jesus withdrew to the sea with his disciples, and a great multitude followed him from Galilee, from Judea,
- Matt 26:6Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,
- John 12:1–3Then six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, who had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.
- Hos 9:12Though they bring up their children, yet I will bereave them, so that not a man shall be left. Indeed, woe also to them when I depart from them!
- Jer 6:8Be instructed, Jerusalem, lest my soul be alienated from you; lest I make you a desolation, a land not inhabited.”
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