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

²³ All the crowds of people were amazed and said, “Can this [Jesus] be the son of David?”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ 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)

²³ And all the multitudes were amazed, and said, Can this be the son of David?

Common English Bible

²³ All the crowds were amazed and said, “This man couldn’t be the Son of David, could he?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ And all the crowds were stupefied, and they said, "Could this be the son of David?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²³ 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?”