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the Week of Proper 12 / Ordinary 17
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Murdock Translation

Luke 17:23

And if they shall say to you: Lo, here he is! or, Lo, there he is! go not forth.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Jesus, the Christ;   Jesus Continued;   The Topic Concordance - Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - King, Christ as;   Persecution;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Luke, Gospel of;   Son of Man;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Matthew, Gospel According to;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Birth of Christ;   Discourse;   Eschatology (2);   Following;   Luke, Gospel According to;   Obedience (2);  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Follow;   Parousia;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
They will say to you,
King James Version (1611)
And they shall say to you, See here, or see there: Goe not after them, nor follow them.
King James Version
And they shall say to you, See here; or, see there: go not after them, nor follow them.
English Standard Version
And they will say to you, ‘Look, there!' or ‘Look, here!' Do not go out or follow them.
New American Standard Bible
"And they will say to you, 'Look there,' or, 'Look here!' Do not leave, and do not run after them.
New Century Version
People will say to you, ‘Look, there he is!' or, ‘Look, here he is!' Stay where you are; don't go away and search.
Amplified Bible
"They will say to you, 'Look [the Messiah is] there!' or 'Look [He is] here!' Do not go away [to see Him], and do not run after them.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"They will say to you, 'Look there! Look here!' Do not go away, and do not run after them.
Legacy Standard Bible
And they will say to you, ‘Look there! Look here!' Do not go away, and do not run after them.
Berean Standard Bible
People will tell you, 'Look, there He is,' or 'Here He is.' Do not go out or chase after them.
Contemporary English Version
When people say to you, "Look there," or "Look here," don't go looking for him.
Complete Jewish Bible
People will say to you, ‘Look! Right here!' or, ‘See! Over there!' Don't run off, don't follow them,
Darby Translation
And they will say to you, Lo here, or Lo there; go not, nor follow [them].
Easy-to-Read Version
People will say to you, ‘Look, there it is!' or ‘Look, here it is!' Stay where you are; don't go away and search.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then they shall say to you, Behold here, or beholde there: but goe not thither, neither followe them.
George Lamsa Translation
And if they should say to you, Behold, he is here! and behold, he is there! do not go.
Good News Translation
There will be those who will say to you, ‘Look, over there!' or, ‘Look, over here!' But don't go out looking for it.
Lexham English Bible
And they will say to you, ‘Behold, there!' ‘Behold, here!' Do not go out or run after them!
Literal Translation
And they will say to you, Lo, here! Or, Lo, there! Do not go away, nor follow.
American Standard Version
And they shall say to you, Lo, there! Lo, here! go not away, nor follow after them:
Bible in Basic English
And if they say to you, See, it is there! or, It is here! do not go away, or go after them.
Hebrew Names Version
They will tell you, 'Look, here!' or 'Look, there!' Don't go away, nor follow after them,
International Standard Version
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Etheridge Translation
And if they say to you, Behold here, and, Behold there, go not.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And they shall say to you, See here, see there: Go not after them, nor folowe them.
English Revised Version
And they shall say to you, Lo, there! Lo, here! go not away, nor follow after them:
World English Bible
They will tell you, 'Look, here!' or 'Look, there!' Don't go away, nor follow after them,
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And when they shall say to you, See here; see there: go not, nor follow them.
Weymouth's New Testament
And they will say to you, `See there!' `See here!' Do not start off and go in pursuit.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thei schulen seie to you, Lo! here, and lo there. Nyle ye go, nether sue ye;
Update Bible Version
And they shall say to you, Look, there! Or, Look, here! don't go away, nor follow after [them]:
Webster's Bible Translation
And they will say to you, See here; or, see there: go not after [them], nor follow them.
New English Translation
Then people will say to you, ‘Look, there he is!' or ‘Look, here he is!' Do not go out or chase after them.
New King James Version
And they will say to you, 'Look here!' or 'Look there!' [fn] Do not go after them or follow them.
New Living Translation
People will tell you, ‘Look, there is the Son of Man,' or ‘Here he is,' but don't go out and follow them.
New Life Bible
They will say to you, ‘He is here,' or, ‘He is there,' but do not follow them.
New Revised Standard
They will say to you, ‘Look there!' or ‘Look here!' Do not go, do not set off in pursuit.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And they will say unto you, Lo there! or, Lo here! Do not depart, and do notpursue.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And they will say to you: See here, and see there. Go ye not after, nor follow them.
Revised Standard Version
And they will say to you, 'Lo, there!' or 'Lo, here!' Do not go, do not follow them.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And they shall saye to you: Se here Se there. Goo not after them nor folowe them
Young's Literal Translation
and they shall say to you, Lo, here; or lo, there; ye may not go away, nor follow;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And they shal saye vnto you: Se here, Se there. Go not ye, nether folowe,
Mace New Testament (1729)
they will tell you, here he is, or, he is there: but don't go out to follow them;
Simplified Cowboy Version
There will be people saying, 'Look, over there! or, 'Here he is over here!' But don't believe those people.

Contextual Overview

20 And as [fn] of the Pharisees asked him, When the kingdom of God would come; he answered, and said to them: The kingdom of God will not come with observables. 21 And they will not say: Behold, here it is! or, Behold, it is there! For lo, the kingdom of God is within you 22 And he said to his disciples: The days will come, when ye will long to see one of the days of the Son of man, and ye will not see [fn] . 23 And if they shall say to you: Lo, here he is! or, Lo, there he is! go not forth. 24 For, as the lightning darteth from the heavens, and illuminateth all beneath the heavens; so will the Son of man be, in his day. 25 But, previously, he is to suffer many things, and to be rejected by this generation. 26 And as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the Son of man. 27 They ate and drank, they took wives and were given to husbands, until the day that Noah entered the ark; and the flood came, and destroyed every one. 28 And again, as it was in the days of Lot; they ate and drank, bought and sold, planted and built. 29 But in the day that Lot went out of Sodom, the Lord rained fire and sulphur from heaven, and destroyed them all.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Luke 17:21, Luke 21:8, Matthew 24:23-26, Mark 13:21-23

Reciprocal: Luke 17:20 - observation John 7:34 - General

Cross-References

Acts 16:3
Him Paul was disposed to take with him: and he took him, and circumcised him, because of the Jews that were in that region; for they all knew that his father was a Gentile.
Galatians 5:6
For, in the Messiah Jesus, circumcision is nothing, neither is uncircumcision, but the faith that is perfected by love.
Galatians 6:15
For circumcision is nothing; neither is uncircumcision; but a new creation.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they shall say unto you, see here, or see there,.... That is, there is Christ; and in two of Beza's exemplars, the word Christ is added as in Matthew 24:23 from whence it seems to be transcribed: and the sense is, it shall be said by one or another; Christ is in such a place, or he is in such a place, and he will quickly appear, and deliver the people of the Jews out of all their distresses and calamities by the Romans,

Go not after them nor follow [them]: the last clause, "nor follow them", is left out in the Syriac and Persic versions; the meaning is, give no credit to them; as if Christ was come again in person, and was in such a place, do not go along with them, where they direct, as into the desert, or into the secret chambers; for to follow them will be very dangerous, of bad consequence, as well as vain and fruitless; see Acts 5:36.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And they shall say ... - Many false Christs, according to Josephus, appeared about that time, attempting to lead away the people. See the notes at Matthew 24:23-27.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Luke 17:23. And they shall say — Or, And IF they shall say. Two MSS., the Syriac and Armenian, have εαν, IF.

See here — KM, sixteen others, and the later Syriac, have ο χριστος, Behold the Christ is here. This is undoubtedly the meaning of the place. Matthew 24:23; Matthew 24:23.


 
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