Luke 24:26 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

²⁶ Was it not necessary for the Christ [i.e., God’s specially chosen one] to suffer these things, and [then] to enter His glorious state [with the Father]?”

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁶ ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁶ Was it not necessary and essentially fitting that the Christ (the Messiah) should suffer all these things before entering into His glory (His majesty and splendor)?

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁶ Behooved it not the Christ to suffer these things, and to enter into his glory?

Common English Bible

²⁶ Wasn’t it necessary for the Christ to suffer these things and then enter into his glory?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ Was not the Christ required to suffer these things, and so enter into his glory?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁶ Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and so to enter into his glory?

Luke 24:26 Cross References

Luke 24:44

Then Jesus said to the apostles, “These are the words that I told you while I was still with you, [when I said] that everything written in the Law of Moses, and the prophets, and the psalms about me needed to be fulfilled.”

Luke 24:46

And He said to them, “This is what was written: The Christ [i.e., God’s specially chosen one] will suffer, and [then] rise again from the dead on the third day.

Luke 24:7

‘The Son of man must be turned over into the hands of sinful men to be crucified, but the third day [He will] rise again [from the dead]?’”

John 2:22

Therefore, when He was raised from the dead, His disciples remembered what He had said and they believed the Scriptures and the words Jesus had spoken.

John 20:9

But these disciples still did not understand the Scripture that [predicted] Jesus must rise again from the dead.

Acts 17:3

explaining and declaring that it was necessary for Christ to suffer and [then] rise again from the dead. Paul was saying, “This Jesus, whom I am proclaiming to you, is the Christ.”

Hebrews 12:2

We should fix our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and completer of the [or, “our”] faith. [Note: Jesus is here pictured as the one who completely fulfills the life of faith, or who provides us with the ability to live such a life]. [And] because He could look forward to joy, He endured the cross, despising its shame, and has sat down at the right side of God’s throne.

1 Peter 1:11

They studied [their own prophecies] to learn what, or which [person or] time the Holy Spirit in them pointed to, in predicting the sufferings of Christ and the glories yet to come.

1 Peter 1:3

God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, is to be praised for being so merciful as to have given us a new birth, which provides for us a hope of never ending life through the means of Jesus Christ’s return from the dead.