Matthew 2:17 facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Matthew 2:17
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The Prophet Jeremiah. Illustrations from The Life of Michael Angelo by Romain Rolland (1912).
Book	Gospel of Matthew
Christian Bible part	New Testament

Matthew 2:17 is the seventeenth verse of the second chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament. Herod has ordered the Massacre of the Innocents and this verse links this event to a quotation from the Old Testament.

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In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads:

Then was fulfilled that which was

spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying,

The World English Bible translates the passage as:

Then that which was spoken by Jeremiah

the prophet was fulfilled, saying,

The Novum Testamentum Graece text is:

τότε ἐπληρώθη τὸ ῥηθὲν

διὰ Ἰερεμίου τοῦ προφήτου λέγοντος

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