Ephesians 4:9
King James Version (KJV)
(Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?
Translations
Ephesians 4:9 - Amplified Bible
[But He ascended?] Now what can this, He ascended, mean but that He had previously descended from [the heights of] heaven into [the depths], the lower parts of the earth?
Ephesians 4:9 - American Standard Version
(Now this, He ascended, what is it but that he also descended into the lower parts of the earth?
Ephesians 4:9 - Bible in Basic English
(Now this, He went up, what is it but that he first went down into the lower parts of the earth?
Ephesians 4:9 - Darby Bible
But that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended into the lower parts of the earth?
Ephesians 4:9 - English Standard Version
(In saying, "He ascended," what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower regions, the earth?
Ephesians 4:9 - King James Version
(Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?
Ephesians 4:9 - La Biblia de las Americas
(Esta expresiòn: Ascendiò, ¿qué significa, sino que El también habìa descendido (Algunos mss. agregan: primero) a las profundidades de la tierra?
Ephesians 4:9 - The Message
Ephesians 4:9 - New American Standard Bible
(Now this {expression,} "He ascended," what does it mean except that He also had descended into the lower parts of the earth?
Ephesians 4:9 - Nueva Biblia Latinoamericana de Hoy
Esta expresiòn: "Ascendiò," ¿qué significa, sino que El también habìa descendido a las profundidades de la tierra?
Ephesians 4:9 - World English Bible
Now this, "He ascended," what is it but that he also first descended into the lower parts of the earth?
Ephesians 4:9 - Young's Living Translation
and that, he went up, what is it except that he also went down first to the lower parts of the earth?
Ephesians 4:9 - Additional Comments
Where did Christ go after his crucifixion? He went "to the lower parts of the earth". This basically means He was hidden, not that he went to some form of hell.
Psalm 8:5, Heb 2:7,9 "... You have made him a little lower than the angels ..." - He became human
Psalm 63:9 "But those who seek my life, to destroy it, Shall go into the lower parts of the earth." - they will die
Psalm 139:15 "My frame was not hidden from You, When I was made in secret, And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth." - a symbol of being hidden (in the mother's womb)
Matt 12:40 "For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth." ( a hidden place where no one else is)
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