Isaiah 48:16

New American Bible - revised edition

Come near to me and hear this! From the beginning I did not speak in secret; At the time it happens, I am there: “Now the Lord God has sent me, and his spirit.”

Cross References

Isaiah 34:1

Come near, nations, and listen; be attentive, you peoples! Let the earth and what fills it listen, the world and all it produces.

Isaiah 41:1

Keep silence before me, O coastlands; let the nations renew their strength. Let them draw near and speak; let us come together for judgment.

Isaiah 43:13

yes, from eternity I am he; There is none who can deliver from my hand: I act and who can cancel it?

Isaiah 45:19

I have not spoken in secret from some place in the land of darkness, I have not said to the descendants of Jacob, “Look for me in an empty waste.” I, the Lord, promise justice, I declare what is right.

Isaiah 57:3

But you, draw near, you children of a sorceress, offspring of an adulterer and a prostitute!

Luke 4:18

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring glad tidings to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free,

John 18:20

Jesus answered him, “I have spoken publicly to the world. I have always taught in a synagogue or in the temple area where all the Jews gather, and in secret I have said nothing.

John 3:34

For the one whom God sent speaks the words of God. He does not ration his gift of the Spirit.