that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying,
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- KJV That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying,
- BSB to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah:
- ESV so that what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled:
- NKJV that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying:
- NASB This happened so that what was spoken through Isaiah the prophet would be fulfilled:
- NLT This fulfilled what God said through the prophet Isaiah:
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- Isa 9:1–2But there shall be no more gloom for her who was in anguish. In the former time, he brought into contempt the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali; but in the latter time he has made it glorious, by the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.
- 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.”
- 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.”
- Luke 22:37For I tell you that this which is written must still be fulfilled in me: ‘He was counted with transgressors.’ For that which concerns me has an end.”
- Matt 12:17–21that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying,
- Matt 2:15and was there until the death of Herod; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, “Out of Egypt I called my son.”
- Matt 1:22Now all this has happened, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying,
- Matt 26:56But all this has happened, that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled.” Then all the disciples left him, and fled.
- John 19:28After this, Jesus, seeing that all things were now finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, said, “I am thirsty.”
- John 19:36–37For these things happened, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, “A bone of him will not be broken.”
- Matt 26:54How then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that it must be so?”
- Matt 8:17that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying, “He took our infirmities, and bore our diseases.”
- John 15:25But this happened so that the word may be fulfilled which was written in their law, ‘They hated me without a cause.’
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