Anakalypsis / Unveiling the Word

Luke 7:26

But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? Yea, I say unto you, and much more than a prophet.

KJV

ἀλλὰ τί ἐξεληλύθατε ἰδεῖν; προφήτην; ναί, λέγω ὑμῖν, καὶ περισσότερον προφήτου.

Greek NT

Sed quid existis videre ? prophetam ? Utique dico vobis, et plus quam prophetam :

Vulgate

But what went ye out to see? a prophet? Yea, I say unto you, and much more than a prophet.

ASV

But what went you out to see? A prophet? Yea, I say to you, and more than a prophet.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

10 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
ναί
nai
particle · 34×
περισσότερος
perissoteros
adjective · 9×
προφήτης
prophetes
noun · 145×
τίς
tis
interrogative_pronoun · 533×
ἀλλά
alla
conjunction · 636×
ἐξέρχομαι
exerchomai
verb · 221×
ὁράω
orao
verb · 682×
ὑμεῖς
umeis
pronoun · 1828×

Textual variants

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

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SBLGNT: ἐξήλθατε | WH/Treg/NIV: ἐξήλθατε | RP: ἐξεληλύθατε
  • ἐξήλθατε — SBLGNT
  • ἐξήλθατε — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • ἐξεληλύθατε — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

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

§523St. John the Baptist is the Lord's immediate precursor or forerunner, sent to prepare his way.196 "Prophet of the Most High", John surpasses all the prophets, of whom he is the last.197 He inaugurates the Gospel, already from his mother's womb welcomes the coming of Christ, and rejoices in being "the friend of the bridegroom", whom he points out as "the Lamb of God, who takes a…
§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…
§719John the Baptist is "more than a prophet."94 In him, the Holy Spirit concludes his speaking through the prophets. John completes the cycle of prophets begun by Elijah.95 He proclaims the imminence of the consolation of Israel; he is the "voice" of the Consoler who is coming.96 As the Spirit of truth will also do, John "came to bear witness to the light."97 In John's sight, the …
Proofs in continuation, extracted from St. John's Gospel. The Gospels are four in number, neither more nor less. Mystic reasons for this. 1. John, the disciple of the Lord, preaches this faith, and seeks, by the proclamation of the Gospel, to remove that error which by Cerinthus had been disseminated among men, and a long time previously by those termed Nicolaitans, who are an …
1. The Parable of the Tares: the House of Jesus. Then He left the multitudes and went into His house, and His disciples came unto Him saying, Declare to us the parable of the tares of the field. Matthew 13:36 When Jesus then is with the multitudes, He is not in His house, for the multitudes are outside of the house, and it is an act which springs from His love of men to leave t…

Cross-references

  • John 5:35 — He was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light.
  • Luke 1:76 — And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways;
  • Luke 16:16 — The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.
  • Luke 20:6 — But and if we say, Of men; all the people will stone us: for they be persuaded that John was a prophet.
  • Mal 3:1 — Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the LORD, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold,
  • Mal 4:5 — Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
  • Matt 11:10 — For this is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.