Matthew 12:44
Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.
KJV
τότε λέγει· εἰς τὸν οἶκόν μου ἐπιστρέψω ὅθεν ἐξῆλθον. καὶ ἐλθὸν εὑρίσκει σχολάζοντα καὶ σεσαρωμένον καὶ κεκοσμημένον.
Greek NT
Tunc dicit : Revertar in domum meam, unde exivi. Et veniens invenit eam vacantem, scopis mundatam, et ornatam.
Vulgate
Then he saith, I will return into my house whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.
ASV
Then he saith: I will return into my house from whence I came out. And coming he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
15 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Textual variants
3 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
- Εἰς τὸν οἶκόν μου ἐπιστρέψω — SBLGNT
- Εἰς τὸν οἶκόν μου ἐπιστρέψω — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- Ἐπιστρέψω εἰς τὸν οἶκόν μου — Robinson-Pierpont
- εὑρίσκει — SBLGNT
- εὑρίσκει — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Nestle-Aland 27, Robinson-Pierpont
- + τὸν οἶκόν — Reader's GNT (NA27)
- σχολάζοντα — SBLGNT
- σχολάζοντα — Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
- + καὶ — Westcott-Hort
Historic Christian voices
1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 1Cor 11:19 — For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.
- 1John 2:19 — They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us
- 1John 4:4 — Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
- Jude 1:4 — For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our
- Luke 11:25 — And when he cometh, he findeth it swept and garnished.
- Ps 81:11 — But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.
- Rev 13:8 — And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.