Matthew 26:31 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

³¹ Then Jesus said [to His disciples], “All of you will have doubts about me tonight, for it is written [Zech. 13:7], ‘I will strike down the shepherd and the sheep of the flock will be scattered everywhere.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³¹ Then saith Jesus unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³¹ Then Jesus said to them, You will all be offended and stumble and fall away because of Me this night [distrusting and deserting Me], for it is written, I will strike the Shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered. [Zech. 13:7.]

American Standard Version (1901)

³¹ Then saith Jesus unto them, All ye shall be offended in me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad.

Common English Bible

³¹ Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Tonight you will all fall away because of me. This is because it is written, I will hit the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will go off in all directions.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³¹ Then Jesus said to them: "You will all fall away from me in this night. For it has been written: 'I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³¹ Then Jesus said to them: All you shall be scandalized in me this night. For it is written: I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be dispersed.

Matthew 26:31 Cross References

Matthew 11:6

The person who does not find an occasion for having doubts about my identity is fortunate indeed.”

Matthew 26:24

The Son of man is going [to die], but it is too bad for that person through whom the Son of man is turned over [to the Jewish leaders]! It would be better for that man if he had not been born.”

Matthew 26:56

But all this has happened so that the Scriptures of the prophets would be fulfilled.” Then all of His disciples left Him and ran away.

John 16:32

Look, the time is coming --- yes, it is already here --- when each of you will be scattered to his own home, and will leave me [all] alone. And yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.