Luke 1:80

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And the child became tall, and strong in spirit; and he was living in the waste land till the day when he came before the eyes of Israel.

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Referenced Verses

  • Luke 2:40 : 40 And the child became tall and strong and full of wisdom, and the grace of God was on him.
  • Luke 2:52 : 52 And Jesus was increasing in wisdom and in years, and in grace before God and men.
  • Matt 3:1 : 1 And in those days John the Baptist came preaching in the waste land of Judaea,
  • Matt 11:7 : 7 And when they were going away, Jesus, talking of John, said to all the people, What went you out into the waste land to see? a tall stem moving in the wind?
  • Mark 1:3-4 : 3 The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his roads straight; 4 John came, and gave baptism in the waste land, preaching baptism as a sign of forgiveness of sin for those whose hearts were changed.
  • Luke 1:15 : 15 For he will be great in the eyes of the Lord; he will not take wine or strong drink; and he will be full of the Spirit of God from his birth.
  • John 1:31 : 31 I myself had no knowledge of him, but I came giving baptism with water so that he might be seen openly by Israel.
  • Judg 13:24-25 : 24 So the woman gave birth to a son, and gave him the name Samson; and he became a man and the blessing of the Lord was on him. 25 And the spirit of the Lord first came on him in Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.
  • 1 Sam 3:19-20 : 19 And Samuel became older, and the Lord was with him and let not one of his words be without effect. 20 And it was clear to all Israel from Dan to Beer-sheba that Samuel had been made a prophet of the Lord.

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  • Luke 2:39-41
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    39And when they had done all the things which were ordered by the law of the Lord, they went back to Galilee, to Nazareth, the town where they were living.

    40And the child became tall and strong and full of wisdom, and the grace of God was on him.

    41And every year his father and mother went to Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover.

  • Luke 1:14-17
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    14And you will be glad and have great delight; and numbers of people will have joy at his birth.

    15For he will be great in the eyes of the Lord; he will not take wine or strong drink; and he will be full of the Spirit of God from his birth.

    16And through him great numbers of the children of Israel will be turned to the Lord their God.

    17And he will go before his face in the spirit and power of Elijah, turning the hearts of fathers to their children, and wrongdoers to the way of righteousness; to make ready a people whose hearts have been turned to the Lord.

  • Luke 2:25-28
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    25And there was then in Jerusalem a man whose name was Simeon; and he was an upright man, fearing God and waiting for the comfort of Israel: and the Holy Spirit was on him.

    26And he had knowledge, through the Holy Spirit, that he would not see death till he had seen the Lord's Christ.

    27And full of the Spirit he came into the Temple; and when the father and mother came in with the child Jesus, to do with him what was ordered by the law,

    28Then he took him in his arms and gave praise to God and said,

  • Luke 1:75-76
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    75In righteousness and holy living before him all our days.

    76And you, child, will be named the prophet of the Most High: you will go before the face of the Lord, to make ready his ways;

  • Luke 1:78-79
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    78Because of the loving mercies of our God, by which the dawn from heaven has come to us,

    79To give light to those in dark places, and in the shade of death, so that our feet may be guided into the way of peace.

  • Luke 1:65-67
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    65And fear came on all those who were living round about them: and there was much talk about all these things in all the hill-country of Judaea.

    66And all who had word of them kept them in their minds and said, What will this child be? For the hand of the Lord was with him.

    67And his father, Zacharias, was full of the Holy Spirit, and with the voice of a prophet said these words:

  • Luke 2:52
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    52And Jesus was increasing in wisdom and in years, and in grace before God and men.

  • Luke 1:8
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    8Now it came about that in his turn he was acting as priest before God,

  • Luke 2:32-33
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    32A light of revelation to the Gentiles, and the glory of your people Israel.

    33And his father and mother were full of wonder at the things which were said about him.

  • Luke 4:1
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    1And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, came back from the Jordan, and was guided by the Spirit in the waste land

  • Luke 1:23
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    23And when the days of his work in the Temple were ended, he went back to his house.

  • Mark 1:12-13
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    12And straight away the Spirit sent him out into the waste land.

    13And he was in the waste land for forty days, being tested by Satan; and he was with the beasts; and the angels took care of him.

  • Luke 1:32
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    32He will be great, and will be named the Son of the Most High: and the Lord God will give him the kingdom of David, his father:

  • Luke 2:21-23
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    21And when, after eight days, the time came for his circumcision, he was named Jesus, the name which the angel had given to him before his birth.

    22And when the necessary days for making them clean by the law of Moses had come to an end, they took him to Jerusalem to give him to the Lord

    23(As it says in the law of the Lord, Every mother's first male child is to be holy to the Lord),

  • Mark 1:9
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    9And it came about in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was given baptism by John in the Jordan.

  • Matt 2:21
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    21And he got up, and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel.

  • Acts 13:24
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    24For whose coming John made ready the way by preaching to all the people of Israel the baptism which goes with a change of heart.

  • Luke 4:16-17
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    16And he came to Nazareth, where he had been as a child, and he went, as his way was, into the Synagogue on the Sabbath, and got up to give a reading.

    17And the book of the prophet Isaiah was given to him and, opening the book, he came on the place where it is said,

  • Matt 4:16
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    16The people who were in the dark saw a great light, and to those in the land of the shade of death did the dawn come up.

  • Mark 1:2-3
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    2Even as it is said in the book of Isaiah the prophet, See, I send my servant before your face, who will make ready your way;

    3The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his roads straight;

  • Luke 1:57
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    57Now it was time for Elisabeth to give birth, and she had a son.

  • Matt 3:1
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    1And in those days John the Baptist came preaching in the waste land of Judaea,

  • Luke 4:14
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    14And Jesus came back to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and the news of him went through all the country round about.

  • Luke 3:4
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    4As it says in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his roads straight.

  • John 1:31
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    31I myself had no knowledge of him, but I came giving baptism with water so that he might be seen openly by Israel.

  • Luke 1:59
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    59And on the eighth day they came to see to the circumcision of the child, and they would have given him the name of Zacharias, his father's name;

  • Isa 9:1
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    1In earlier times he made the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali of small value, but after that he gave it glory, by the way of the sea, on the other side of Jordan, Galilee of the nations.

  • Luke 1:41
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    41And when the voice of Mary came to the ears of Elisabeth, the baby made a sudden move inside her; then Elisabeth was full of the Holy Spirit,

  • Matt 3:3
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    3For this is he of whom Isaiah the prophet said, The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his roads straight.

  • Luke 1:26
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    26Now in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town in Galilee, named Nazareth,

  • Luke 2:12
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    12And this is the sign to you: you will see a young child folded in linen, in the place where the cattle have their food.

  • Mic 5:3
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    3And he will take his place and give food to his flock in the strength of the Lord, in the glory of the name of the Lord his God; and their resting-place will be safe: for now he will be great to the ends of the earth.