Matthew 11:26
ContextNET © | Yes, Father, for this was your gracious will. 1 |
NIV © | Yes, Father, for this was your good pleasure. |
NASB © | "Yes, Father, for this way was well-pleasing in Your sight. |
NLT © | Yes, Father, it pleased you to do it this way! |
MSG © | Yes, Father, that's the way you like to work." |
BBE © | Yes, Father, for so it was pleasing in your eyes. |
NRSV © | yes, Father, for such was your gracious will. |
NKJV © | "Even so, Father, for so it seemed good in Your sight. |
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NET © [draft] ITL | |
NET © | Yes, Father, for this was your gracious will. 1 |
NET © Notes |
1 tn Grk “for (to do) thus was well-pleasing before you,” BDAG 325 s.v. ἔμπροσθεν 1.b.δ; speaking of something taking place “before” God is a reverential way of avoiding direct connection of the action to him. |