Bible Strands
Matthew 11:13
For all the Prophets and the Law prophesied until John.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Jesus speaks to a crowd about John the Baptist, placing this declaration between the description of the kingdom’s forceful advance and the identification of John as the promised Elijah.
The words — ἕως (heōs) means “until,” and προφῆται (prophētai) means “prophets,” structuring the verse to mark John as the historical and theological terminus of the Old Testament witness.
The thread — The combined witness of Law and Prophets recurs in Matthew 5:17, Romans 3:21, and Luke 24:44 as the unified scriptural testimony to God’s redemptive work.
Why it lands — It requires the reader to accept John as the final voice of the old covenant era and to acknowledge the transition into the kingdom’s present reality.
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The Greek words
King James Version
For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.
Cross-references
- Matthew 5:17 Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I have not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them.
- Romans 3:21 But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, as attested by the Law and the Prophets.
- Luke 24:44 Jesus said to them, “These are the words I spoke to you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about Me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms.”
- Acts 3:22 For Moses said, ‘The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers. You must listen to Him in everything He tells you.
- Acts 13:27 The people of Jerusalem and their rulers did not recognize Jesus, yet in condemning Him they fulfilled the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath.
- Malachi 4:6 And he will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers. Otherwise, I will come and strike the land with a curse.”
- Luke 24:27 And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, He explained to them what was written in all the Scriptures about Himself.
- John 5:46 If you had believed Moses, you would believe Me, because he wrote about Me.