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  • Matthew 8:20
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
    • 20 But Jesus said to him: “Foxes have dens and birds of heaven have nests, but the Son of man has nowhere to lay down his head.”+

  • Matthew 8:20
    The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures
    • 20 καὶ And λέγει is saying αὐτῷ to him ὁ the Ἰησοῦς Jesus Αἱ The ἀλώπεκες foxes φωλεοὺς dens ἔχουσιν are having καὶ and τὰ the πετεινὰ birds τοῦ of the οὐρανοῦ heaven κατασκηνώσεις, roosts, ὁ the δὲ but υἱὸς Son τοῦ of the ἀνθρώπου man οὐκ not ἔχει is having ποῦ where τὴν the κεφαλὴν head κλίνῃ. he may incline.

  • Matthew 8:20
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
    • 20 But Jesus said to him: “Foxes have dens and birds of heaven have roosts, but the Son of man* has nowhere to lay down his head.”+

  • Matthew 8:20
    The Bible in Living English
    • 20 And Jesus said to him “The foxes have dens and the birds of the air have roosts, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”

  • Matthew 8:20
    American Standard Version
    • 20 And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the heaven have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

  • Matthew 8:20
    The Emphasized Bible
    • 20 And Jesus saith unto him: The foxes have dens, And the birds of the heavens nests,—But the Son of Man hath not where his head he may recline.

  • Matthew 8:20
    King James Version
    • 20 And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

  • Matthew
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1986-2025
    • 8:20 cl 291; it-1 869, 1050; it-2 494; rr 76; jy 154-155; w11 11/15 24; gt chapter 65; w88 3/15 24

  • Matthew
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1930-1985
    • 8:20 w72 581; ad 723, 927, 1221, 1531; kj 55; w65 409; im 220; g62 8/8 3; g61 6/22 5; w48 52

  • Matthew
    Research Guide for Jehovah’s Witnesses—2019 Edition
    • 8:20

      Close to Jehovah, p. 291

      Insight, Volume 1, pp. 869, 1050-1051

      Insight, Volume 2, p. 494

      Pure Worship, p. 76

      Jesus—The Way, pp. 154-155

      The Watchtower,

      11/15/2011, p. 24

      3/15/1988, p. 24

  • Matthew Study Notes—Chapter 8
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
    • 8:20

      Son of man: Or “Son of a human.” This expression occurs about 80 times in the Gospels. Jesus used it to refer to himself, evidently emphasizing that he was truly human, born from a woman, and that he was a fitting human counterpart to Adam, having the power to redeem humankind from sin and death. (Ro 5:12, 14-15) The same expression also identified Jesus as the Messiah, or the Christ.​—Da 7:13, 14; see Glossary.

      nowhere to lay down his head: That is, no residence that he could call his own.

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