Matthew 11:26
New International Version
Yes, Father, for this is what you were pleased to do.

New Living Translation
Yes, Father, it pleased you to do it this way!

English Standard Version
yes, Father, for such was your gracious will.

Berean Standard Bible
Yes, Father, for this was well-pleasing in Your sight.

Berean Literal Bible
Yes, Father, for this was well-pleasing before You.

King James Bible
Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight.

New King James Version
Even so, Father, for so it seemed good in Your sight.

New American Standard Bible
Yes, Father, for this way was well pleasing in Your sight.

NASB 1995
“Yes, Father, for this way was well-pleasing in Your sight.

NASB 1977
“Yes, Father, for thus it was well-pleasing in Thy sight.

Legacy Standard Bible
Yes, Father, for this way was well-pleasing in Your sight.

Amplified Bible
Yes, Father, for this way was well-pleasing in Your sight.

Christian Standard Bible
Yes, Father, because this was your good pleasure.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Yes, Father, because this was Your good pleasure.

American Standard Version
yea, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in thy sight.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Yes, my Father, for so it was desirable before you.

Contemporary English Version
Yes, Father, this is what pleased you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Yea, Father; for so hath it seemed good in thy sight.

English Revised Version
yea, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in thy sight.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Yes, Father, this is what pleased you.

Good News Translation
Yes, Father, this was how you were pleased to have it happen.

International Standard Version
Yes, Father, because this is what was pleasing to you.

Literal Standard Version
Yes, Father, because so it was good pleasure before You.

Majority Standard Bible
Yes, Father, for this was well-pleasing in Your sight.

New American Bible
Yes, Father, such has been your gracious will.

NET Bible
Yes, Father, for this was your gracious will.

New Revised Standard Version
yes, Father, for such was your gracious will.

New Heart English Bible
Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.

Webster's Bible Translation
Even so, Father, for so it seemed good in thy sight.

Weymouth New Testament
Yes, Father, for such has been Thy gracious will.

World English Bible
Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.

Young's Literal Translation
Yes, Father, because so it was good pleasure before Thee.

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Context
Rest for the Weary
25At that time Jesus declared, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. 26Yes, Father, for this was well-pleasing in Your sight. 27All things have been entrusted to Me by My Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal Him.…

Cross References
Luke 22:42
"Father, if You are willing, take this cup from Me. Yet not My will, but Yours be done."

Luke 23:34
Then Jesus said, "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing." And they divided up His garments by casting lots.

John 11:41
So they took away the stone. Then Jesus lifted His eyes upward and said, "Father, I thank You that You have heard Me.

John 12:27
Now My soul is troubled, and what shall I say? 'Father, save Me from this hour'? No, it is for this purpose that I have come to this hour.

John 12:28
Father, glorify Your name!" Then a voice came from heaven: "I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again."


Treasury of Scripture

Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in your sight.

for.

Job 33:13
Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters.

Isaiah 46:10
Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:

Luke 10:21
In that hour Jesus rejoiced in spirit, and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes: even so, Father; for so it seemed good in thy sight.

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Matthew 11
1. John sends his disciples to Jesus.
7. Jesus' testimony concerning John.
16. The perverse judgment of the people concerning the Son.
20. Jesus upbraids Korazin, Bethsaida, and Capernaum;
25. and praising his Father's wisdom in revealing the Gospel to the simple,
28. he calls to him those who are weary and burdened.














(26) For so it seemed good.--Literally, Yea, Father, [I thank Thee] that thus it was Thy good pleasure. The words recall those that had been spoken at our Lord's baptism ("in whom I am well pleased," Matthew 3:17), and the song of the heavenly host on the night of the Nativity ("good will among men," Luke 2:14). The two verses are remarkable as the only record outside St. John's Gospel of a prayer like that which we find in John 17. For the most part, we may believe, those prayers were offered apart on the lonely hill-side, in the darkness of night; or, it may be, the disciples shrank in their reverence, or perhaps in the consciousness of their want of capacity, from attempting to record what was so unspeakably sacred. But it is noteworthy that in this exceptional instance we find, both in the prayer and the teaching that follows it in St. Matthew and St. Luke, turns of thought and phrase almost absolutely identical with what is most characteristic of St. John. It is as though the isolated fragment of a higher teaching had been preserved by them as a witness that there was a region upon which they scarcely dared to enter, but into which men were to be led afterwards by the beloved disciple, to whom the Spirit gave power to recall what had been above the reach of the other reporters of his Master's teaching.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
Yes,
ναί (nai)
Particle
Strong's 3483: Yes, certainly, even so. A primary particle of strong affirmation; yes.

Father,
Πατήρ (Patēr)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 3962: Father, (Heavenly) Father, ancestor, elder, senior. Apparently a primary word; a 'father'.

for
ὅτι (hoti)
Conjunction
Strong's 3754: Neuter of hostis as conjunction; demonstrative, that; causative, because.

this
οὕτως (houtōs)
Adverb
Strong's 3779: Thus, so, in this manner. Or (referring to what precedes or follows).

was
ἐγένετο (egeneto)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Middle - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 1096: A prolongation and middle voice form of a primary verb; to cause to be, i.e. to become, used with great latitude.

well-pleasing
εὐδοκία (eudokia)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 2107: From a presumed compound of eu and the base of dokeo; satisfaction, i.e. delight, or kindness, wish, purpose.

in Your sight.
ἔμπροσθέν (emprosthen)
Preposition
Strong's 1715: From en and pros; in front of (literally or figuratively) or time).


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