Logos Bible Study

Luke 20:21

The NET BibleOther versions

English

Arabic

Czech

French

German

Greek

Hungarian

Italian

Korean

Latin

Portuguese

Russian

Simplified Chinese

Spanish

Traditional Chinese

20:21Thus50 they asked him, “Teacher, we know that you speak and teach correctly,51 and show no partiality, but teach the way of God in accordance with the truth.52

Read in Logos

Footnotes

  1. 50 Here καί (kai) has been translated as “thus” to indicate the implied result of the plans by the spies.
  2. 51 Or “precisely”; Grk “rightly.” Jesus teaches exactly, the straight and narrow.
  3. 52 Teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. Very few comments are as deceitful as this one; they did not really believe this at all. The question was specifically designed to trap Jesus.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

So they asked him, “Teacher, we know that you speak and teach rightly, and show no partiality, but truly teach the way of God.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

So the spies questioned him: “Teacher, we know that you speak and teach what is right, and that you do not show partiality but teach the way of God in accordance with the truth.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

They questioned him, “Teacher, we know that you speak and teach correctly, and you don’t show partiality but teach truthfully the way of God.

NLTNew Living Translation

“Teacher,” they said, “we know that you speak and teach what is right and are not influenced by what others think. You teach the way of God truthfully.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And they asked him, saying, “Teacher, we know that you speak and teach rightly, and do not show partiality, but teach the way of God in truth.

KJV 1900King James Version

And they asked him, saying, Master, we know that thou sayest and teachest rightly, neither acceptest thou the person of any, but teachest the way of God truly: