en_tn_condensed/mat/12/17.md

that it might be fulfilled, what had been said through Isaiah the prophet, saying,

The events in 12:15-16 happened so that God’s words would be fulfilled. This can be translated as the beginning of a new sentence. Alternate translation: “This was to fulfill what had been said through Isaiah the prophet:” or “This was so that what God had said through the prophet Isaiah might happen:”