Matthew 2:17

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

So the Lord's promise came true, just as the prophet Jeremiah had said,

Cross References

Jeremiah 1:1

My name is Jeremiah. I am a priest, and my father Hilkiah and everyone else in my family are from Anathoth in the territory of the Benjamin tribe. This book contains the things that the LORD told me to say.

Matthew 2:15

where they stayed until Herod died. So the Lord's promise came true, just as the prophet had said, “I called my son out of Egypt.”

Matthew 2:16

When Herod found out that the wise men from the east had tricked him, he was very angry. He gave orders for his men to kill all the boys who lived in or near Bethlehem and were two years old and younger. This was based on what he had learnt from the wise men.

Matthew 2:18

“In Ramah a voice was heard crying and weeping loudly. Rachel was mourning for her children, and she refused to be comforted, because they were dead.”

Matthew 27:9

So the words of the prophet Jeremiah came true, “They took the thirty silver coins, the price of a person among the people of Israel.