Luke 4:21

Easy-to-Read Version

he began to speak to them. He said, "While you heard me reading these words just now, they were coming true!"

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He began by saying to them, “Today as you listen, this Scripture has been fulfilled.”

King James Version (1611)
And hee began to say vnto them, This day is this Scripture fulfilled in your eares.

King James Version
And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.

English Standard Version
And he began to say to them, "Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing."

New American Standard Bible
Now He began to say to them, "Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing."

New Century Version
He began to say to them, "While you heard these words just now, they were coming true!"

Amplified Bible
He began speaking to them: "Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing and in your presence."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
And He began to say to them, "Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing."

Legacy Standard Bible
And He began to say to them, "Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing."

Berean Standard Bible
and He began by saying, "Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing."

Contemporary English Version
Then Jesus said to them, "What you have just heard me read has come true today."

Complete Jewish Bible
He started to speak to them: "Today, as you heard it read, this passage of the Tanakh was fulfilled!"

Darby Translation
And he began to say to them, To-day this scripture is fulfilled in your ears.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then he began to say vnto them, This day is the Scripture fulfilled in your eares.

George Lamsa Translation
And he began to say to them, To-day this scripture is fulfilled in your ears.

Good News Translation
as he said to them, "This passage of scripture has come true today, as you heard it being read."

Lexham English Bible
And he began to say to them, "Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing."

Literal Translation
And He began to say to them, Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your ears.

American Standard Version
And he began to say unto them, To-day hath this scripture been fulfilled in your ears.

Bible in Basic English
Then he said to them, Today this word has come true in your hearing.

Hebrew Names Version
He began to tell them, "Today, this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing."

International Standard Version
Then he began to say to them, "Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing."

Etheridge Translation
And he began to say to them, Today is fulfilled this scripture which is in your ears.

Murdock Translation
And he began to say to them: This day, is this scripture which ye have heard, fulfilled.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And he began to say vnto the: this day is this scripture fulfilled in your eares.

English Revised Version
And he began to say unto them, Today hath this scripture been fulfilled in your ears.

World English Bible
He began to tell them, "Today, this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing."

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And he said to them, This day is the scripture fulfilled in your ears.

Weymouth's New Testament
Then He proceeded to say to them, "To-day is this Scripture fulfilled in your hearing."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he bigan to seie to hem, For in this dai this scripture is fulfillid in youre eeris.

Update Bible Version
And he began to say to them, Today has this scripture been fulfilled in your ears.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he began to say to them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.

New English Translation
Then he began to tell them, "Today this scripture has been fulfilled even as you heard it being read."

New King James Version
And He began to say to them, "Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing."

New Living Translation
Then he began to speak to them. "The Scripture you've just heard has been fulfilled this very day!"

New Life Bible
Then He began to say to them, "The Holy Writings you have just heard have been completed today."

New Revised Standard
Then he began to say to them, "Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and he began to be saying to them - This day, is fulfilled this scripture, in your ears.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he began to say to them: This day is fulfilled this scripture in your ears.

Revised Standard Version
And he began to say to them, "Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing."

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And he began to saye vnto them. This daye is this scripture fulfilled in youre eares.

Young's Literal Translation
And he began to say unto them -- `To-day hath this writing been fulfilled in your ears;'

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And he begane to saye vnto them: This daye is this scripture fulfilled in youre eares.

Mace New Testament (1729)
he undertook to show them, how the passage they had heard, was actually then accomplished.

Simplified Cowboy Version
he looked up and said, "All I read has come true today."

Contextual Overview

¹⁴ Jesus went back to Galilee with the power of the Spirit. Stories about him spread all over the area around Galilee. ¹⁵ He began to teach in the synagogues, and everyone praised him. ¹⁶ Jesus traveled to Nazareth, the town where he grew up. On the Sabbath day he went to the synagogue as he always did. He stood up to read. ¹⁷ The book of Isaiah the prophet was given to him. He opened the book and found the place where this is written: ¹⁸ "The Spirit of the Lord is on me. He has chosen me to tell good news to the poor. He sent me to tell prisoners that they are free and to tell the blind that they can see again. He sent me to free those who have been treated badly ¹⁹ and to announce that the time has come for the Lord to show his kindness." ²⁰ Jesus closed the book, gave it back to the helper, and sat down. As everyone in the synagogue watched him closely, ²¹ he began to speak to them. He said, "While you heard me reading these words just now, they were coming true!" ²² Everyone there said good things about Jesus. They were amazed to hear him speak such wonderful words. They said, "How is this possible? Isn't he Joseph's son?" ²³ Jesus said to them, "I know you will tell me the old saying: ‘Doctor, heal yourself.' You want to say, ‘We heard about the things you did in Capernaum. Do those same things here in your own hometown!'"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

This day: Luke 10:23, Luke 10:24, Matthew 13:14, John 4:25, John 4:26, John 5:39, Acts 2:16-18, Acts 2:29-33, Acts 3:18

Reciprocal: Acts 16:13 - and we James 2:23 - the scripture

Cross-References

Genesis 4:12
Now when you work the soil, the ground will not help your plants grow. You will not have a home in this land. You will wander from place to place."

Genesis 31:27
Why did you run away without telling me? If you had told me, I would have given you a party. There would have been singing and dancing with music.

Job 21:12
They sing and dance to the sound of harps and flutes.

Isaiah 5:12
At your parties with your wine, harps, drums, flutes, and other musical instruments, you don't see what the Lord has done. You don't notice what his hands have made.

Amos 6:5
You play your harps, and like David, you practice on your musical instruments.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he began to say unto them,.... To preach from those words; the explanation of which he gave, though not here recorded, and applied them to himself, to whom they belonged, saying:

this day is this Scripture fulfilled in your ears; which is as if he should say, I am the person here spoken of; and at this present time the Spirit of God is upon me; I am anointed with the Holy Ghost, and now preach glad tidings to you, and all the good things here mentioned, and for the several ends proposed; and this Scripture has its full accomplishment which has been read unto you, and you have heard this day. So the Syriac version renders it, דבאדניכון, "which is in your ears"; that is, which you have now heard. The Jews themselves acknowledge, that these words are spoken of the Messiah. One of their writers i says,

"these are the words of the prophet with respect to the Messiah; for the Messiah shall say so, "because the Lord hath anointed me", c.''

And so said the true Messiah Jesus. Another of them expresses himself thus k:

"these are the words of the prophet with respect to the Messiah for the Messiah shall say thus, "because the Lord hath anointed me", &c. or they are the words of the prophet concerning himself.''

And elsewhere it is said by them l,

"the holy, blessed God, will send his Messiah to us, and he shall be worthy of this, (i.e. the character of a meek person) as it is said, Isaiah 61:1 "he hath sent me to preach glad tidings to the meek."''

i Kimchi in Sepher Shorash. rad. משח k R. Sol. Hamelec in Miclol Yophi in loc. l Juchaain, fol. 69. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This scripture - This writing, or this part of the Scriptures.

Fulfilled - It is coming to pass; the thing originally intended by it is about to be accomplished.

In your ears - In your “hearing;” or you hear, in my preaching, the fulfillment of this prophecy. It is probable that he said much “more” than is here recorded, but Luke has preserved only the “substance” of his discourse. This was the “amount” or “sum”” of his sermon, or his explanation of the passage, that it was now receiving its accomplishment.