Luke 4:22

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

All spoke well of him and were amazed at the gracious words that came from his mouth. They said, “Is not this Joseph's son?”

Cross References

Psalm 45:2

You are the most handsome of men; grace is poured upon your lips; therefore God has blessed you forever.

Psalm 45:4

In your majesty ride on victoriously for the cause of truth and to defend the right; let your right hand teach you dread deeds.

Proverbs 10:32

The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked what is perverse.

Proverbs 16:21

The wise of heart is called perceptive, and pleasant speech increases persuasiveness.

Proverbs 25:11

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver.

Ecclesiastes 10:12

Words spoken by the wise bring them favor, but the lips of fools consume them.

Song of Solomon 5:16

His speech is most sweet, and he is altogether desirable. This is my beloved and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

Isaiah 50:4

The Lord God has given me the tongue of a teacher, that I may know how to sustain the weary with a word. Morning by morning he wakens— wakens my ear to listen as those who are taught.

Luke 2:47

And all who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers.

Luke 2:48

When his parents saw him they were astonished; and his mother said to him, “Child, why have you treated us like this? Look, your father and I have been searching for you in great anxiety.”

Luke 21:15

for I will give you words and a wisdom that none of your opponents will be able to withstand or contradict.

Luke 4:21

Then he began to say to them, “Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”

John 1:45

Philip found Nathanael and said to him, “We have found him about whom Moses in the law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus son of Joseph from Nazareth.”

John 6:42

They were saying, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”

John 7:46

The police answered, “Never has anyone spoken like this!”

Acts 6:10

But they could not withstand the wisdom and the Spirit with which he spoke.

Titus 2:8

and sound speech that cannot be censured; then any opponent will be put to shame, having nothing evil to say of us.