Matthew 4:14
that it might be fulfilled that was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying,
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying,
In Context
15“Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali, way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations!
Cross References
Isaiah 9:1For [there will be] no gloom on her who [is] distressed as at the former time. The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, || So the latter has honored the way of the sea, || Beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.
Matthew 2:15and he was there until the death of Herod, that it might be fulfilled that was spoken by the LORD through the prophet, saying, “Out of Egypt I called My Son.”
Matthew 8:17that it might be fulfilled that was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying, “He took our sicknesses Himself, and bore the diseases.”
Matthew 26:54How then may the Writings be fulfilled, that thus it must happen?”
Luke 22:37for I say to you that this which has been written is necessary to be accomplished in Me: And He was reckoned with lawless ones; for also the things concerning Me have an end.”
John 15:25but—that the word may be fulfilled that was written in their law—They hated Me without a cause.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 4:13-18
Opening of Christ's Ministry. 12 Now when Jesus had heard that John was cast into prison, he departed into Galilee; 13 And leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is upon the sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon and Nephthalim: 14 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, 15 The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles; 16 The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the… Read the whole commentary →