Matthew 12:23 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

All the crowds of people were amazed and said, “Can this [Jesus] be the son of David?”

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And all the [crowds of] people were stunned with bewildered wonder and said, This cannot be the Son of David, can it?

American Standard Version (1901)

And all the multitudes were amazed, and said, Can this be the son of David?

Common English Bible

All the crowds were amazed and said, “This man couldn’t be the Son of David, could he?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

And all the crowds were stupefied, and they said, "Could this be the son of David?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And all the multitudes were amazed, and said: Is not this the son of David?

Matthew 12:23 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.”

Matthew 21:9

And the crowds that walked ahead and followed behind Him shouted, “Hosanna to the son of David. [Note: The Syriac word ‘Hosanna’ originally meant ‘save now’ but came to be used as an expression of welcome, praise, blessing or acclamation]. May He, who comes in the name [i.e., by the authority] of the Lord, be blessed. Hosanna in the highest [i.e., may this blessing reach to the highest heaven].”

Matthew 7:28

And so it happened, when Jesus had finished [speaking] these words, the crowds were amazed at his teaching,

Matthew 9:27

Now as Jesus moved on from there, two blind men followed Him [i.e., probably being led by sighted persons]. They were shouting, “Have pity on us, son of David!”

Matthew 9:33

When the evil spirit was driven out [by Jesus] the [former] deaf-mute began to speak, and the crowds marveled, saying, “No one in Israel has ever seen this done before.”

John 4:29

“Come [and] see a man who told me everything I ever did. Can this be the Christ?”