Luke 2:35

New American Bible - revised edition

(and you yourself a sword will pierce) so that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.”

Cross References

1 Corinthians 11:19

there have to be factions among you in order that [also] those who are approved among you may become known.

Deuteronomy 8:2

Remember how for these forty years the Lord, your God, has directed all your journeying in the wilderness, so as to test you by affliction, to know what was in your heart: to keep his commandments, or not.

1 John 2:19

They went out from us, but they were not really of our number; if they had been, they would have remained with us. Their desertion shows that none of them was of our number.

John 19:25

Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala.

Psalm 42:10

I will say to God, my rock: “Why do you forget me? Why must I go about mourning with the enemy oppressing me?”

Luke 2:34

and Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother, “Behold, this child is destined for the fall and rise of many in Israel, and to be a sign that will be contradicted

Luke 2:36

There was also a prophetess, Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was advanced in years, having lived seven years with her husband after her marriage,