Luke 2:26

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • John 8:51 : 51 Truly I say to you, If a man keeps my word he will never see death.
  • Heb 11:5 : 5 By faith Enoch was taken up to heaven so that he did not see death; he was seen no longer, for God took him away: for before he was taken, witness had been given that he was well-pleasing to God:
  • Luke 9:27 : 27 But truly I say to you, Some of those who are here now will have no taste of death till they see the kingdom of God.
  • Acts 2:36 : 36 For this reason, let all Israel be certain that this Jesus, whom you put to death on the cross, God has made Lord and Christ.
  • Acts 10:38 : 38 About Jesus of Nazareth, how God gave the Holy Spirit to him, with power: and how he went about doing good and making well all who were troubled by evil spirits, for God was with him.
  • Acts 17:3 : 3 Saying to them clearly and openly that Christ had to be put to death and come back to life again; and that this Jesus, whom, he said, I am preaching to you, is the Christ.
  • Heb 1:8-9 : 8 But of the Son he says, Your seat of power, O God, is for ever and ever; and the rod of your kingdom is a rod of righteousness. 9 You have been a lover of righteousness and a hater of evil; and so God, your God, has put the oil of joy on your head more than on the heads of those who are with you.
  • Acts 9:20 : 20 And straight away, in the Synagogues, he was preaching Jesus as the Son of God.
  • John 1:41 : 41 Early in the morning he came across his brother and said to him, We have made discovery! It is the Messiah! (which is to say, the Christ).
  • John 4:29 : 29 Come and see a man who has been talking to me of everything I ever did! Is it possible that this is the Christ?
  • John 20:31 : 31 But these are recorded, so that you may have faith that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and so that, having this faith you may have life in his name.
  • Ps 2:2 : 2 The kings of the earth have taken their place, and the rulers are fixed in their purpose, against the Lord, and against the king of his selection, saying,
  • Ps 2:6 : 6 But I have put my king on my holy hill of Zion.
  • Ps 25:14 : 14 The secret of the Lord is with those in whose hearts is the fear of him; he will make his agreement clear to them.
  • Ps 89:48-49 : 48 What man now living will not see death? will he be able to keep back his soul from the underworld? (Selah.) 49 Lord, where are your earlier mercies? where is the oath which you made to David in unchanging faith?
  • Isa 61:1 : 1 The spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make the broken-hearted well, to say that the prisoners will be made free, and that those in chains will see the light again;
  • Dan 9:24-26 : 24 Seventy weeks have been fixed for your people and your holy town, to let wrongdoing be complete and sin come to its full limit, and for the clearing away of evil-doing and the coming in of eternal righteousness: so that the vision and the word of the prophet may be stamped as true, and to put the holy oil on a most holy place. 25 Have then the certain knowledge that from the going out of the word for the building again of Jerusalem till the coming of a prince, on whom the holy oil has been put, will be seven weeks: in sixty-two weeks its building will be complete, with square and earthwork. 26 And at the end of the times, even after the sixty-two weeks, one on whom the holy oil has been put will be cut off and have no ...; and the town and the holy place will be made waste together with a prince; and the end will come with an overflowing of waters, and even to the end there will be war; the making waste which has been fixed.
  • Amos 3:7 : 7 Certainly the Lord will do nothing without making clear his secret to his servants, the prophets.

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