A scribe came, and said to him, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.”
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- KJV And a certain scribe came, and said unto him, Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest.
- BSB And one of the scribes came to Him and said, “Teacher, I will follow You wherever You go.”
- NKJV Then a certain scribe came and said to Him, “Teacher, I will follow You wherever You go.”
- NASB Then a scribe came and said to Him, “Teacher, I will follow You wherever You go.”
- NLT Then one of the teachers of religious law said to him, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.”
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Cross-references · 8
- Luke 22:33–34He said to him, “Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison and to death!”
- Luke 14:33So therefore whoever of you who doesn’t renounce all that he has, he can’t be my disciple.
- John 13:36–38Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, where are you going?” Jesus answered, “Where I am going, you can’t follow now, but you will follow afterwards.”
- Luke 14:25–27Now great multitudes were going with him. He turned and said to them,
- 1 Cor 1:20Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this world? Hasn’t God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
- Mark 12:32–34The scribe said to him, “Truly, teacher, you have said well that he is one, and there is none other but he,
- Luke 9:57–60As they went on the way, a certain man said to him, “I want to follow you wherever you go, Lord.”
- Ezra 7:6this Ezra went up from Babylon. He was a skilled scribe in the law of Moses, which Yahweh, the God of Israel, had given; and the king granted him all his request, according to Yahweh his God’s hand on him.
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