1 Peter 3:19

he preached unto those souls who were held in sheul,

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;

In Context

18Because the Meshiha also once died on account of sins, the just on account of sinners, that he might bring us unto Aloha. And dead in the body and alive in the Spirit,

20those who before were disobedient in the days of Nuch; while the long-suffering of Aloha commanded that he should make the ark, upon the hope of their conversion, and eight souls only entered therein, and were saved in the waters.

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Cross References

1 Peter 4:6For on this account the dead also have been evangelized; that they might be judged as men in the flesh, and live with Aloha in the Spirit.

Revelation 20:7And when the thousand years shall be fulfilled, Satana will be loosed from the place of his keeping,

Matthew Henry on 1 Peter 3:19-21

Christ's Sufferings. ( a. d. 66.) 18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: 19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; 20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. Here, I. The example of Christ is proposed as an argument for… Read the whole commentary →

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