Matthew 11:13
For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.
Matthew 11:13 in other translations
| BSB | For all the Prophets and the Law prophesied until John. |
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| WEB | For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John. |
| ASV | For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John. |
| YLT | for all the prophets and the law till John did prophesy, |
| DARBY | For all the prophets and the law have prophesied unto John. |
| BBE | For all the prophets and the law were in force till John. |
| Webster | For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John. |
What does Matthew 11:13 mean?
Barnes' Notes
Albert Barnes, 1834 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Matthew 11:7-15
What Christ said concerning John, was not only for his praise, but for the people's profit. Those who attend on the word will be called to give an account of their improvements. Do we think when the sermon is done, the care is over? No, then the greatest of the care begins. John was a self-denying man, dead to all the pomps of the world and the pleasures of sense. It becomes people, in all their appearances, to be…
Matthew 11:13 in the original Greek
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Cross references for Matthew 11:13
- Matthew 5:17-18
Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
- Romans 3:21
But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
- Acts 3:22-24
For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you. And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people. Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days.
- Acts 13:27
For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.
- Luke 24:44
And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.
- Malachi 4:6
And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
- Luke 24:27
And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
- John 5:46-47
For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me. But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?
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Context
- Matthew 11:12
And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
- Matthew 11:13
For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.
- Matthew 11:14
And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to come.
Matthew 11:13 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Porque todos los profetas y la ley hasta Juan profetizaron. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Car tous les prophètes et la loi ont prophétisé jusqu’à Jean. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Denn alle Propheten und das Gesetz haben geweissagt bis auf Johannes. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Omnes enim prophetæ et lex usque ad Joannem prophetaverunt: |