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Luke 7:20

When the men were come unto him, they said, John Baptist hath sent us unto thee, saying, Art thou he that should come? or look we for another?

KJV

παραγενόμενοι δὲ πρὸς αὐτὸν οἱ ἄνδρες εἶπαν· Ἰωάννης ὁ βαπτιστὴς ἀπέσταλκεν ἡμᾶς πρὸς σὲ λέγων· σὺ εἶ ὁ ἐρχόμενος, ἢ ἄλλον προσδοκῶμεν;

Greek NT

Cum autem venissent ad eum viri, dixerunt : Joannes Baptista misit nos ad te dicens : Tu es qui venturus es, an alium exspectamus ?

Vulgate

And when the men were come unto him, they said, John the Baptist hath sent us unto thee, saying, Art thou he that cometh, or look we for another?

ASV

And when the men were come unto him, they said: John the Baptist hath sent us to thee, saying: Art thou he that art to come? Or look we for another?

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

17 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

Βαπτιστής
baptistes
noun · 12×
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
παραγίνομαι
paraginomai
verb · 38×
προσδοκάω
prosdokao
verb · 16×
πρός
pros
preposition · 697×
σύ
su
pronoun · 1071×
ἀνήρ
aner
noun · 216×
ἀποστέλλω
apostello
verb · 131×
ἄλλος
allos
adjective · 154×
ἔρχομαι
erchomai
verb · 627×
ἡμεῖς
emeis
pronoun · 862×
e
particle · 346×
Ἰωάννης
ioannes
noun · 134×
o
article · 19778×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

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SBLGNT: ἀπέστειλεν | WH/NIV: ἀπέστειλεν | Treg/RP: ἀπέσταλκεν
  • ἀπέστειλενSBLGNT
  • ἀπέστειλενWestcott-Hort, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • ἀπέσταλκενTregelles, Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§545Jesus invites sinners to the table of the kingdom: "I came not to call the righteous, but sinners."258 He invites them to that conversion without which one cannot enter the kingdom, but shows them in word and deed his Father's boundless mercy for them and the vast "joy in heaven over one sinner who repents".259 The supreme proof of his love will be the sacrifice of his own life…
§547Jesus accompanies his words with many "mighty works and wonders and signs", which manifest that the kingdom is present in him and attest that he was the promised Messiah.268

Cross-references

  • Acts 2:22 — Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:
  • Isa 35:5 — Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.