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Good News Translation

John 3:24

(This was before John had been put in prison.)

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - John;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Grace;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - John the baptist;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Episcopacy;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Faith;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Gospels;   Jesus Christ;   John the Baptist;   John, the Gospel According to;   Holman Bible Dictionary - John;   John, the Gospel of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Gospels;   John, Gospel of;   John, Theology of;   Mss;   Scribes;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Herod ;   John the Baptist;   Prisoner;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - James;   John, Gospel of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
since John had not yet been thrown into prison.
King James Version (1611)
For Iohn was not yet cast into prison.
King James Version
For John was not yet cast into prison.
English Standard Version
(for John had not yet been put in prison).
New American Standard Bible
for John had not yet been thrown into prison.
New Century Version
(This was before John was put into prison.)
Amplified Bible
for John had not yet been thrown into prison.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
for John had not yet been thrown into prison.
Legacy Standard Bible
for John had not yet been thrown into prison.
Berean Standard Bible
(For John had not yet been thrown into prison.)
Complete Jewish Bible
(This was before Yochanan's imprisonment.)
Darby Translation
for John was not yet cast into prison.
Easy-to-Read Version
This was before John was put in prison.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For Iohn was not yet cast into prison.
George Lamsa Translation
For John was not yet cast into prison.
Lexham English Bible
(For John had not yet been thrown into prison.)
Literal Translation
For John had not yet been thrown into the prison.
American Standard Version
For John was not yet cast into prison.
Bible in Basic English
For at this time John had not been put into prison.
Hebrew Names Version
For Yochanan was not yet thrown into prison.
International Standard Version
since John had not yet been thrown into prison.Matthew 14:3;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
for not yet was Juchanon cast into the house of the bound.
Murdock Translation
For John had not yet fallen into prison.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For Iohn was not yet cast into prison.
English Revised Version
For John was not yet cast into prison.
World English Bible
For John was not yet thrown into prison.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
For John was not yet cast into prison.
Weymouth's New Testament
(For John was not yet in prison.)
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Joon was not yit sent in to prisoun.
Update Bible Version
For John was not yet cast into prison.
Webster's Bible Translation
For John was not yet cast into prison.
New English Translation
(For John had not yet been thrown into prison.)
New King James Version
For John had not yet been thrown into prison.
New Living Translation
(This was before John was thrown into prison.)
New Life Bible
John had not been put in prison yet.
New Revised Standard
—John, of course, had not yet been thrown into prison.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
for, not yet, had John been cast into prison.
Douay-Rheims Bible
For John was not yet cast into prison.
Revised Standard Version
For John had not yet been put in prison.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
For Iohn was not yet cast into preson.
Young's Literal Translation
for John was not yet cast into the prison --
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
for Iohn was not yet put in preson.
Mace New Testament (1729)
for John was not yet cast into prison.
Simplified Cowboy Version
(This was before John was thrown in the slammer.)

Contextual Overview

22 After this, Jesus and his disciples went to the province of Judea, where he spent some time with them and baptized. 23 John also was baptizing in Aenon, not far from Salim, because there was plenty of water in that place. People were going to him, and he was baptizing them. 24 (This was before John had been put in prison.) 25 Some of John's disciples began arguing with a Jew about the matter of ritual washing. 26 So they went to John and told him, "Teacher, you remember the man who was with you on the east side of the Jordan, the one you spoke about? Well, he is baptizing now, and everyone is going to him!" 27 John answered, "No one can have anything unless God gives it. 28 You yourselves are my witnesses that I said, ‘I am not the Messiah, but I have been sent ahead of him.' 29 The bridegroom is the one to whom the bride belongs; but the bridegroom's friend, who stands by and listens, is glad when he hears the bridegroom's voice. This is how my own happiness is made complete. 30 He must become more important while I become less important." 31 He who comes from above is greater than all. He who is from the earth belongs to the earth and speaks about earthly matters, but he who comes from heaven is above all.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Matthew 4:12, Matthew 14:3, Mark 6:17, Luke 3:19, Luke 3:20, Luke 9:7-9

Reciprocal: Matthew 11:2 - in

Cross-References

Genesis 3:2
"We may eat the fruit of any tree in the garden," the woman answered,
Genesis 3:8
That evening they heard the Lord God walking in the garden, and they hid from him among the trees.
Genesis 3:9
But the Lord God called out to the man, "Where are you?"
Genesis 3:16
And he said to the woman, "I will increase your trouble in pregnancy and your pain in giving birth. In spite of this, you will still have desire for your husband, yet you will be subject to him."
Genesis 3:17
And he said to the man, "You listened to your wife and ate the fruit which I told you not to eat. Because of what you have done, the ground will be under a curse. You will have to work hard all your life to make it produce enough food for you.
Genesis 3:18
It will produce weeds and thorns, and you will have to eat wild plants.
Genesis 3:22
Then the Lord God said, "Now these human beings have become like one of us and have knowledge of what is good and what is bad. They must not be allowed to take fruit from the tree that gives life, eat it, and live forever."
Exodus 25:2
"Tell the Israelites to make an offering to me. Receive whatever offerings anyone wishes to give.
Numbers 22:23
When the donkey saw the angel standing there holding a sword, it left the road and turned into the fields. Balaam beat the donkey and brought it back onto the road.
Joshua 5:13
While Joshua was near Jericho, he suddenly saw a man standing in front of him, holding a sword. Joshua went up to him and asked, "Are you one of our soldiers, or an enemy?"

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For John was not yet cast into prison. As he afterwards was by Herod, for the sake of Herodias, because he reproved Herod for taking her to be his wife, when she was wife to his brother Philip; see Matthew 14:3; and this circumstance shows, that these things were done before that journey of Christ into Galilee, mentioned in Matthew 4:12.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For John was not yet cast into prison - See Luke 3:20. The mention of this shows that John was not imprisoned until some time after our Lord entered on his ministry. The design of John was to call men to repentance, and to prepare them for the Messiah, and this he continued to do after our Saviour commenced his work. It shows that a minister of religion should be industrious to the day of his death. John still toiled in his work not the “less” because the Messiah had come. So ministers should not labor less when Christ appears by his Spirit, and takes the work into his own hands, and turns many to himself.


 
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