Luke 4:21 - Plain English Version

²¹ And then he started to teach them. He said, “You just heard me read that message that Isaiah wrote, a long time ago. Well, those things are happening right now, today, while you are listening to me.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ And He began to speak to them: Today this Scripture has been fulfilled while you are present and hearing.

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ And he began to say unto them, To-day hath this scripture been fulfilled in your ears.

Common English Bible

²¹ He began to explain to them, “Today, this scripture has been fulfilled just as you heard it.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ Then he began to say to them, "On this day, this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing."

Luke 4:21 Cross References

Luke 4:20

Then Jesus closed the book, gave it back to the helper there, and sat down. Everybody kept looking straight at Jesus.

Luke 4:22

All those people started talking together. They said good things about Jesus, and they said, “Wow. He talked real good. But we know this man, he is Joseph’s son.”

John 5:39

I know that you read God’s book all the time, and you think that if you do that you will find out how to live with God for ever. I want you to know that those words in God’s book, they tell you all about me.

Acts 3:18

But a long time ago, God told his men to tell people about Jesus, and those men wrote those messages in God’s book. They all said that God was going to send his special man, the man that is called the Christ, and they said that people were going to hurt him and kill him. And now God has made all that happen.