Matthew 4:14
that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, "The land of Zabulon,
1770 John Worsley NT
In The King James Version
That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying,
In Context
15and Nephthalim, by the way of the sea,
Cross References
Matthew 2:15and stayed there till the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which the Lord spake by the prophet, saying, " Out of Egypt have I called my Son."
Matthew 8:17which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, He took our infirmities himself, and bore our diseases.
Matthew 26:54but how then should the scriptures be fulfilled, which say that thus it must be?
Luke 22:37for I tell you, that this which is written must yet be accomplished in me, "And He was numbered with transgressors," for the things foretold concerning me are near at an end.
John 15:25But thus it is that the word might be fulfilled, which 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 →