and came to make you understand what is to befall your people in the latter days. For the vision is for days yet to come.”
Daniel 12:8 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) I heard, but I did not understand. Then I said, “O my lord, what shall be the issue of these things?” More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And I heard, but I did not understand. Then I said, O my lord, what shall be the issue and final end of these things? American Standard Version (1901) And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my lord, what shall be the issue of these things? Common English Bible I heard it, but I didn’t understand it. “My lord,” I said, “what will happen after all this?” Catholic Public Domain Version And I heard and did not understand. And I said, "My lord, what will be after these things?" English Standard Version 2016 I heard, but I did not understand. Then I said, “O my lord, what shall be the outcome of these things?” |
and came to make you understand what is to befall your people in the latter days. For the vision is for days yet to come.”
And I said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the stream, “How long shall it be till the end of these wonders?”
The man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the stream, raised his right hand and his left hand toward heaven; and I heard him swear by him who lives for ever that it would be for a time, two times, and half a time; and that when the shattering of the power of the holy people comes to an end all these things would be accomplished.
He said, “Go your way, Daniel, for the words are shut up and sealed until the time of the end.
Then I heard a holy one speaking; and another holy one said to the one that spoke, “For how long is the vision concerning the continual burnt offering, the transgression that makes desolate, and the giving over of the sanctuary and host to be trampled under foot?”
But they understood none of these things; this saying was hid from them, and they did not grasp what was said.
His disciples did not understand this at first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that this had been written of him and had been done to him.
He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has fixed by his own authority.
they inquired what person or time was indicated by the Spirit of Christ within them when predicting the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glory.