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Lexham English Bible

John 7:11

So the Jews were looking for him at the feast, and were saying, "Where is he?"

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Jerusalem;   Jesus, the Christ;   Scofield Reference Index - Faith;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - John, gospel of;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Jesus Christ;   Suffering;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Quakers;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Candlestick;   Feasts;   Tabernacles, Feast of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Scribes;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Dispersion ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Tabernacles feast of;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Jesus of Nazareth;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The Jews were looking for him at the festival and saying, “Where is he?”
King James Version (1611)
Then the Iewes sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he?
King James Version
Then the Jews sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he?
English Standard Version
The Jews were looking for him at the feast, and saying, "Where is he?"
New American Standard Bible
So the Jews were looking for Him at the feast and saying, "Where is He?"
New Century Version
At the feast some people were looking for him and saying, "Where is that man?"
Amplified Bible
So the Jews kept looking for Him at the feast and asking, "Where is He?"
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So the Jews were seeking Him at the feast and were saying, "Where is He?"
Legacy Standard Bible
So the Jews were seeking Him at the feast and saying, "Where is He?"
Berean Standard Bible
So the Jews were looking for Him at the feast and asking, "Where is He?"
Contemporary English Version
During the festival the Jewish leaders looked for Jesus and asked, "Where is he?"
Complete Jewish Bible
At the festival, the Judeans were looking for him. "Where is he?" they asked.
Darby Translation
The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he?
Easy-to-Read Version
At the festival the Jewish leaders were looking for him. They said, "Where is that man?"
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then the Iewes sought him at the feast, and saide, Where is hee?
George Lamsa Translation
The Jews were looking for him at the feast and said, Where is he?
Good News Translation
The Jewish authorities were looking for him at the festival. "Where is he?" they asked.
Literal Translation
Then the Jews sought Him in the feast, and said, Where is that One?
American Standard Version
The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he?
Bible in Basic English
At the feast the Jews were looking for him and saying, Where is he?
Hebrew Names Version
The Yehudim therefore sought him at the feast, and said, "Where is he?"
International Standard Version
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Etheridge Translation
But the Jihudoyee sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he ?
Murdock Translation
And the Jews sought for him at the feast; and they said, Where is he?
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then sought hym the Iewes at the feaste, and sayde, where is he?
English Revised Version
The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he?
World English Bible
The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, "Where is he?"
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Then the Jews sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he?
Weymouth's New Testament
Meanwhile the Jews at the Festival were looking for Him and were inquiring, "Where is he?"
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor the Jewis souyten hym in the feeste dai, and seiden, Where is he?
Update Bible Version
The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he?
Webster's Bible Translation
Then the Jews sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he?
New English Translation
So the Jewish leaders were looking for him at the feast, asking, "Where is he?"
New King James Version
Then the Jews sought Him at the feast, and said, "Where is He?"
New Living Translation
The Jewish leaders tried to find him at the festival and kept asking if anyone had seen him.
New Life Bible
At the religious gathering the Jews were looking for Jesus. They were saying, "Where is He?"
New Revised Standard
The Jews were looking for him at the festival and saying, "Where is he?"
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The Jews, therefore, were seeking him in the feast, and were saying - Where is that one?
Douay-Rheims Bible
The Jews therefore sought him on the festival day and said: Where is he?
Revised Standard Version
The Jews were looking for him at the feast, and saying, "Where is he?"
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Then sought him the Iewes at ye feast and sayde: Where is he?
Young's Literal Translation
the Jews, therefore, were seeking him, in the feast, and said, `Where is that one?'
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then sought him ye Iewes at ye feast, and sayde: Where is he?
Mace New Testament (1729)
during the feast the Jews were in search of him, and said, where can he be?
Simplified Cowboy Version
At the festival the Jewish leaders were all asking where Jesus was, but no one had seen him.

Contextual Overview

1 And after these things Jesus was going about in Galilee. For he did not want to go about in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him. 2 Now the feast of the Jews—the feast of Tabernacles—was near. 3 So his brothers said to him, "Depart from here and go to Judea, so that your disciples also can see your works that you are doing. 4 For no one does anything in secret and yet he himself desires to be publicly recognized. If you are doing these things, reveal yourself to the world!" 5 (For not even his brothers believed in him.) 6 So Jesus said to them, "My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready. 7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I am testifying about it, that its deeds are evil. 8 You go up to the feast. I am not going up to this feast, because my time is not yet completed. 9 And when he had said these things, he remained in Galilee. 10 But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not openly, but (as it were) in secret.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Jews: John 11:56

Reciprocal: John 6:24 - seeking John 7:25 - of Jerusalem John 9:12 - Where

Cross-References

Genesis 1:7
So God made the vaulted dome, and he caused a separation between the waters which were under the vaulted dome and between the waters which were over the vaulted dome. And it was so.
Genesis 6:17
And I, behold, I am about to bring the flood waters over the earth to destroy all flesh in which is the breath of life from under the heaven; everything that is on the earth shall perish.
Genesis 7:5
And Noah did according to all that Yahweh commanded him.
Genesis 7:6
Noah was six hundred years old when the flood waters came upon the earth.
Genesis 7:8
Of clean animals, and of animals which are not clean, and of the birds, and everything that creeps upon the ground,
Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of the life of Noah, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month—on that day all the springs of the great deep were split open, and the windows of heaven were opened.
Genesis 7:23
And he blotted out every living thing upon the surface of the ground, from humankind, to animals, to creeping things, and to the birds of heaven; they were blotted out from the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark remained.
Genesis 7:24
And the waters prevailed over the earth one hundred and fifty days.
2 Kings 7:2
Then the officer on whom the king relied answered the man of God and said, "Look, even if Yahweh is making windows in heaven, could this thing happen?" And he said, "Look, you will be seeing it with your eyes, but you shall not eat from it there."
2 Kings 7:19
Then the officer had replied to the man of God and said, "Look, even if Yahweh is opening the windows in heaven, could this thing happen?" And he had said, "Look you are about to see it with your eyes, but you will not eat from it."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then the Jews sought him at the feast,.... Some to take him and kill him, and others to hear his doctrine, and see his miracles: for all expected him at the feast, knowing it was always his custom, as it was his duty, as an Israelite, to attend at it:

and said, where is he? not naming his name; either through contempt, which might be the case of the far greater part; or through fear of the Jews; or because that he was so well known.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse John 7:11. Then the Jews sought him — By Jews here are to be understood the scribes, Pharisees, and rulers of the people, and not the inhabitants of the province of Judea. It appears, from the following verses, that many of the people were prejudiced in his favour, but they dared not to own it publicly for fear of the Jews, i.e. for fear of the rulers of the people.


 
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