Luke 2:35
Good News Translation
and so reveal their secret thoughts. And sorrow, like a sharp sword, will break your own heart."

New Revised Standard Version
so that the inner thoughts of many will be revealed—and a sword will pierce your own soul too.”

Contemporary English Version
and you, Mary, will suffer as though you had been stabbed by a dagger. But all this will show what people are really thinking."

New American Bible
(and you yourself a sword will pierce) so that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And thy own soul a sword shall pierce, that, out of many hearts thoughts may be revealed.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And thy own soul a sword shall pierce, that, out of many hearts thoughts may be revealed.

a sword.

Psalm 42:10 Whilst my bones are broken, my enemies who trouble me have reproached me; Whilst they say to me day by day: Where is thy God?

John 19:25 Now there stood by the cross of Jesus, his mother and his mother's sister, Mary of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalen.

that.

Luke 16:14,15 Now the Pharisees, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him. . . .

Deuteronomy 8:2 And thou shalt remember all the way through which the Lord thy God hath brought thee for forty years through the desert, to afflict thee and to prove thee, and that the things that were known in thy heart might be made known, whether thou wouldst keep his commandments or no.

Judges 5:15,16 The captains of Issachar were with Debbora, and followed the steps of Barac, who exposed himself to danger, as one going headlong, and into a pit. Ruben being divided against himself, there was found a strife of courageous men. . . .

Matthew 12:24-35 But the Pharisees hearing it, said: This man casteth not out devils but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils. . . .

John 8:42-47 Jesus therefore said to them: If God were your Father, you would indeed love me. For from God I proceeded and came. For I came not of myself: but he sent me. . . .

John 15:22-24 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have sin: but now they have no excuse for their sin. . . .

Acts 8:21-23 Thou hast no part nor lot in this matter. For thy heart is not right in the sight of God. . . .

1 Corinthians 11:19 For there must be also heresies: that they also, who are approved may be made manifest among you.

1 John 2:19 They went out from us but they were not of us. For if they had been of us, they would no doubt have remained with us: but that they may be manifest, that they are not all of us.

Context
The Prophecy of Simeon
34And Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother: Behold this child is set for the fall and for the resurrection of many in Israel and for a sign which shall be contradicted. 35And thy own soul a sword shall pierce, that, out of many hearts thoughts may be revealed. 36And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser. She was far advanced in years and had lived with her husband seven years from her virginity.…
Cross References
Luke 2:34
And Simeon blessed them and said to Mary his mother: Behold this child is set for the fall and for the resurrection of many in Israel and for a sign which shall be contradicted.

Luke 2:36
And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser. She was far advanced in years and had lived with her husband seven years from her virginity.

Luke 2:34
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