For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of His majesty. |
For we did not follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of His majesty. |
For we did not follow cleverly devised tales when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of His majesty. |
We did not follow cleverly invented stories when we told you about the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of His majesty. |
For we were not following cleverly devised stories when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah), but we were eyewitnesses of His majesty (grandeur, authority of sovereign power). |
for we did not follow out to their termination cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and the personal coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but became spectators of that One’s magnificence. |
We were not following a cleverly written-up story when we told you about the power and presence of our Lord Jesus Christ – we actually saw His majesty with our own eyes. |
For it was not mere stories of fancy that we followed when we told you of the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we had been eyewitnesses of His majesty. |
For 1063 we have not 3756 followed 1811 cunningly devised 4679 fables, 3454 when we made known 1107 unto you 5213 the 3588 power 1411 and 2532 coming 3952 of our 2257 Lord 2962 Jesus 2424 Christ, 5547 but 235 were 1096 eyewitnesses 2030 of His 1565 majesty. 3168 |
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- A Picture of the Kingdom - Neil Girrard - ( in Adobe/pdf format ) When Jesus was transfigured on the mountain, He showed His glory to His disciples – and left us a detailed “snapshot” of what His kingdom would be like after His death and before His return.