Luke 7:27
Modern Translations
New International Version
This is the one about whom it is written: "'I will send my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way before you.'

New Living Translation
John is the man to whom the Scriptures refer when they say, ‘Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, and he will prepare your way before you.’

English Standard Version
This is he of whom it is written, “‘Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.’

Berean Study Bible
This is the one about whom it is written: ‘Behold, I will send My messenger ahead of You, who will prepare Your way before You.’

New American Standard Bible
This is the one about whom it is written: ‘BEHOLD, I AM SENDING MY MESSENGER AHEAD OF YOU, WHO WILL PREPARE YOUR WAY BEFORE YOU.’

NASB 1995
"This is the one about whom it is written, 'BEHOLD, I SEND MY MESSENGER AHEAD OF YOU, WHO WILL PREPARE YOUR WAY BEFORE YOU.'

NASB 1977
“This is the one about whom it is written, ‘BEHOLD, I SEND MY MESSENGER BEFORE YOUR FACE, WHO WILL PREPARE YOUR WAY BEFORE YOU.’

Amplified Bible
This is the one of whom it is written [by the prophet Malachi], ‘BEHOLD, I SEND MY MESSENGER AHEAD OF YOU, WHO WILL PREPARE YOUR WAY BEFORE YOU.’

Christian Standard Bible
This is the one about whom it is written: See, I am sending my messenger ahead of you; he will prepare your way before you.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
This is the one it is written about: Look, I am sending My messenger ahead of You; he will prepare Your way before You.

Contemporary English Version
In the Scriptures, God calls John his messenger and says, "I am sending my messenger ahead of you to get things ready for you."

Good News Translation
For John is the one of whom the scripture says: 'God said, I will send my messenger ahead of you to open the way for you.'

GOD'S WORD® Translation
John is the one about whom Scripture says, 'I am sending my messenger ahead of you to prepare the way in front of you.'

International Standard Version
This is the man about whom it is written, 'See, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way before you.'

NET Bible
This is the one about whom it is written, 'Look, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way before you.'
Classic Translations
King James Bible
This is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.

New King James Version
This is he of whom it is written: ‘Behold, I send My messenger before Your face, Who will prepare Your way before You.’

King James 2000 Bible
This is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who shall prepare your way before you.

New Heart English Bible
This is he of whom it is written, 'Look, I send my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way before you.'

World English Bible
This is he of whom it is written, 'Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.'

American King James Version
This is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before your face, which shall prepare your way before you.

American Standard Version
This is he of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, Who shall prepare thy way before thee.

A Faithful Version
This is he concerning whom it is written, 'Behold, I send My messenger before Your face, who shall prepare Your way before You. '

Darby Bible Translation
This is he concerning whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee;

English Revised Version
This is he of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, Who shall prepare thy way before thee.

Webster's Bible Translation
This is he, concerning whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
This is he of whom it is written, Beholde, I sende my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
This is he, of whom it is written: Beholde, I sende my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
This is he, of whom it is wrytten: Beholde, I sende my messaunger before yi face, which shal prepare thy waye before the.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
This is he of who it is wrytte: Beholde I sende my messenger before thy face to prepare thy waye before the.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
this is he concerning whom it has been written: Behold, I send My messenger before Your face, who will prepare Your way before You;

Berean Literal Bible
This is he concerning whom it has been written: 'Behold, I send My messenger before your face, who will prepare Your way before You.'

Young's Literal Translation
this is he concerning whom it hath been written, Lo, I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee;

Smith's Literal Translation
This is he of whom it has been written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee.

Literal Emphasis Translation
This is he concerning whom it has been written, Behold, I send My messenger before your face, who will prepare the Your way before You.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
This is he of whom it is written: Behold I send my angel before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee.

Catholic Public Domain Version
This is he of whom it is written: “Behold, I send my Angel before your face, who shall prepare your way before you.”

Translations from Aramaic
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
“This is he about whom it is written: 'Behold, I am sending my messenger before your face to prepare the way before you.'”

Lamsa Bible
This is he of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before your face, to prepare the way before you.

NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
This is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way be fore thee.

Godbey New Testament
This is he concerning whom it has been written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, who will prepare thy way before thee.

Haweis New Testament
For this is he of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee.

Mace New Testament
he it is, of whom it is written, "behold, I send my messenger before you, who shall prepare the way for you."

Weymouth New Testament
John is the man about whom it is written, 'See, I am sending My messenger before thy face, and he shall make ready thy way before thee.'

Worrell New Testament
This is he concerning whom it has been written, 'Behold, I send forth My messenger before Thy face, who will prepare Thy way before Thee.'

Worsley New Testament
This is he of whom it is written, "Behold I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee:"
















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