Luke 19:3 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

³ 1 As they were hearing these things, he added and spoke a parable, because he was nigh to Jerusalem, and because they thought that the kingdom of God should immediately be manifested.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ And he sought to see Jesus who he was; and could not for the press, because he was little of stature.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ And he was trying to see Jesus, which One He was, but he could not on account of the crowd, because he was small in stature.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ And he sought to see Jesus who he was; and could not for the crowd, because he was little of stature.

Common English Bible

³ He was trying to see who Jesus was, but, being a short man, he couldn’t because of the crowd.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ And he sought to see Jesus, to see who he was. But he was unable to do so, because of the crowd, for he was small in stature.

Luke 19:3 Cross References

Luke 23:8

6 I will chastise him therefore, and release him.

John 12:21

9 The multitude therefore that stood and heard, said that it thundered. Others said: An angel spoke to him.

Luke 12:25

3 Sell what you possess and give alms. Make to yourselves bags which grow not old, a treasure in heaven which faileth not: where no thief approacheth, nor moth corrupteth.

Mark 15:40

AND when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalen, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought sweet spices, that coming, they might anoint Jesus.

Luke 19:2

0 For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.

Luke 19:4

2 He said therefore: A certain nobleman went into a far country, to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.