Luke 4:27
And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian.
KJV
καὶ πολλοὶ λεπροὶ ἦσαν ἐν τῷ Ἰσραὴλ ἐπὶ Ἐλισαίου τοῦ προφήτου, καὶ οὐδεὶς αὐτῶν ἐκαθαρίσθη εἰ μὴ Ναιμὰν ὁ Σύρος.
Greek NT
Et multi leprosi erant in Israël sub Eliseo propheta : et nemo eorum mundatus est nisi Naaman Syrus.
Vulgate
And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, but only Naaman the Syrian.
ASV
And there were many lepers in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet: and none of them was cleansed but Naaman the Syrian.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
17 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Intertextual echoes
This verse quotes or alludes to 1 earlier text.
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2Kgs 5:14 · allusion"Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean."Naaman the Syrian cleansed — Jesus references in Nazareth sermon
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
- ἐν τῷ Ἰσραὴλ ἐπὶ Ἐλισαίου τοῦ προφήτου — SBLGNT
- ἐν τῷ Ἰσραὴλ ἐπὶ … προφήτου — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- ἐπὶ … προφήτου ἐν τῷ Ἰσραήλ — Robinson-Pierpont
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 2Kgs 5:1 — Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the LORD had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, but
- 2Kgs 5:1 — Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the LORD had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, but
- 2Kgs 5:14 — Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
- John 17:12 — While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
- Matt 8:2 — And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.