Galatians 4:25

The Text-Critical English New Testament

For Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem; she is in slavery with her children.

Cross References

Matthew 23:37

“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to yoʋ! How often I have wanted to gather yoʋr children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!

Luke 13:34

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to yoʋ! How often I have wanted to gather yoʋr children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you were not willing!

Luke 19:44

They will raze yoʋ to the ground, and yoʋr children within yoʋ. They will not leave in yoʋ one stone upon another, because yoʋ did not recognize the time of yoʋr visitation.”

Acts 1:11

They said, “Men of Galilee, why are you standing here staring into the sky? This Jesus who was taken up from you into heaven will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.”

Galatians 1:17

nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me, but I went away to Arabia and returned again to Damascus.

Galatians 4:24

This can be explained allegorically, for these women are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; this is Hagar.

Galatians 4:26

But the Jerusalem that is above is the free woman; she is the mother of us all.

Hebrews 12:18

For you have not come to a mountain that can be touched, to a blazing fire, darkness, gloom, and a whirlwind.