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Literal Standard Version

John 7:11

the Jews, therefore, were seeking Him in the celebration, and said, "Where is that One?"

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.
Lexham English Bible
So the Jews were looking for him at the feast, and were saying, "Where is he?"
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
The Jews[fn] kept looking for him at the festival, saying, "Where is that man?"John 11:56;">[xr]
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

1And Jesus was walking after these things in Galilee, for He did not wish to walk in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill Him, 2and the celebration of the Jews was near—that of Shelters— 3His brothers, therefore, said to Him, "Depart from here, and go away to Judea, that Your disciples may also behold Your works that You do; 4for no one does anything in secret, and himself seeks to be in public; if you do these things—reveal Yourself to the world"; 5for not even His brothers were believing in Him. 6Jesus, therefore, says to them, "My time is not yet present, but your time is always ready; 7the world is not able to hate you, but it hates Me, because I testify concerning it that its works are evil. 8You—go up to this celebration; I do not yet go up to this celebration, because My time has not yet been fulfilled"; 9and saying these things to them, He remained in Galilee. 10And when His brothers went up, then also He Himself went up to the celebration, not openly, but as 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
And God makes the expanse, and it separates between the waters which [are] under the expanse, and the waters which [are] above the expanse: and it is so.
Genesis 6:17
And I, behold, I am bringing in the flood of waters on the earth, to destroy from under the heavens all flesh in which [is] a living spirit; all that [is] in the earth expires.
Genesis 7:5
And Noah does according to all that YHWH has commanded him.
Genesis 7:6
And Noah [is] a son of six hundred years, and the flood of waters has been on the earth.
Genesis 7:8
from the clean beast, and from the beast that [is] not clean, and from the bird, and of everything that is creeping on 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 this day all [the] fountains of the great deep have been broken up, and the network of the heavens has been opened,
Genesis 7:23
And all the substance that is on the face of the ground is wiped away—from man to beast, to creeping thing, and to bird of the heavens; indeed, they are wiped away from the earth, and only Noah is left, and those who [are] with him in the ark;
Genesis 7:24
and the waters are mighty on the earth [for] one hundred and fifty days.
2 Kings 7:2
And the captain whom the king has, by whose hand he has been supported, answers the man of God and says, "Behold, YHWH is making windows in the heavens—will this thing be?" And he says, "Behold, you are seeing it with your eyes, and you do not eat thereof."
2 Kings 7:19
and the captain answers the man of God and says, "And behold, YHWH is making windows in the heavens—will this thing be?" And he says, "Behold, you are seeing it with your eyes, and you do not eat thereof";

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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