Matthew 4:14
This happened to fulfill what was said by Isaiah the prophet, 1
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That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying,
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Isaiah 9:1The gloom will be dispelled from her who was in anguish. 1 In an earlier time he humiliated 1 the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, 1 but in the later time he will make it glorious, the way to the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations. 1
Matthew 2:15He remained there until the death of Herod. This fulfilled what the Lord had spoken through the prophet, “Out of Egypt I have called my son.”
Matthew 8:17In this way was fulfilled that which had been spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying, “He himself took our sickness and bore our diseases.”
Matthew 26:54But how then would the scriptures be fulfilled, that this must happen?”
Luke 22:37For I say to you, what is written about me must be fulfilled, 'He was counted with the lawless ones.' For what is predicted about me is being fulfilled.”
John 15:25But this is in order to fulfill the word that is 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 →