Matthew 4:14
so that what had been spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled:
Text-Critical English NT
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 Gentiles,
Cross References
Matthew 2:15where he stayed until the death of Herod. This was to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: “Out of Egypt I called my son.”
Matthew 8:17This was to fulfill what had been spoken by the prophet Isaiah: “He took our infirmities and bore our diseases.”
Matthew 26:54How then would the Scriptures be fulfilled that say it must happen this way?”
Luke 22:37For I tell you that this Scripture must still be fulfilled in me: ‘He was numbered with the lawless.’ For what is written about me is reaching its fulfillment.”
John 15:25But this has happened to fulfill what is written in their law: ‘They hated me for no reason.’
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 →