Luke 9:38 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

Just then a man from the crowd shouted out, “Teacher, I beg you, look at my son [i.e., favorably], for he is my only child.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And, behold, a man of the company cried out, saying, Master, I beseech thee, look upon my son: for he is mine only child.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And behold, a man from the crowd shouted out, Master, I implore You to look at my son, for he is my only child;

American Standard Version (1901)

And behold, a man from the multitude cried, saying, Teacher, I beseech thee to look upon my son; for he is mine only child:

Common English Bible

A man from the crowd shouted, “Teacher, I beg you to take a look at my son, my only child.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And behold, a man from the crowd cried out, saying, "Teacher, I beg you, look kindly on my son, for he is my only son.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And behold a man among the crowd cried out, saying: Master, I beseech thee, look upon my son, because he is my only one.

Luke 9:38 Cross References

Matthew 15:22

Just then a Canaanite woman came out of that area [Note: Mark 7:26 calls her a Syrophoenician Gentile], crying, “O Lord, son of David, have pity on me. My daughter is seriously troubled by an evil spirit.”

Luke 7:12

Now when He approached the town gate, He saw a dead man being carried out; it was the only son of his widowed mother. And many people from the town were with her.

Luke 9:37

And it happened on the next day, when they had come down from the mountain, that a large crowd met Jesus.

Luke 9:39

For when an evil spirit takes hold of him he suddenly screams and [then] it throws him into convulsions so that he foams [at the mouth]. And it does not want to leave him, [even after] severely bruising him.

John 4:47

When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to Him and begged Him to come down [to Capernaum] and heal his son who was about to die.