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Saturday, November 22nd, 2025
the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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John 7:11
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Christian Standard Bible®
The Jews were looking for him at the festival and saying, “Where is he?”
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?
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?
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?"
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?"
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?"
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?"
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?"
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?"
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?"
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?"
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.
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?
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?"
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?
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?
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.
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?"
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?
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?
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?
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?"
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]
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 ?
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?
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?
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?
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?"
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?
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?"
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?
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?
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?
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?"
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?"
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.
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?"
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?"
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?
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?
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?"
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?
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?'
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?
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?
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.
At the festival the Jewish leaders were all asking where Jesus was, but no one had seen him.
Contextual Overview
1Later Jesus was going about his business in Galilee. He didn't want to travel in Judea because the Jews there were looking for a chance to kill him. It was near the time of Tabernacles, a feast observed annually by the Jews. 3His brothers said, "Why don't you leave here and go up to the Feast so your disciples can get a good look at the works you do? No one who intends to be publicly known does everything behind the scenes. If you're serious about what you are doing, come out in the open and show the world." His brothers were pushing him like this because they didn't believe in him either. 6Jesus came back at them, "Don't crowd me. This isn't my time. It's your time—it's always your time; you have nothing to lose. The world has nothing against you, but it's up in arms against me. It's against me because I expose the evil behind its pretensions. You go ahead, go up to the Feast. Don't wait for me. I'm not ready. It's not the right time for me." 9He said this and stayed on in Galilee. But later, after his family had gone up to the Feast, he also went. But he kept out of the way, careful not to draw attention to himself. The Jews were already out looking for him, asking around, "Where is that man?" 12There was a lot of contentious talk about him circulating through the crowds. Some were saying, "He's a good man." But others said, "Not so. He's selling snake oil." This kind of talk went on in guarded whispers because of the intimidating Jewish leaders.
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 6:17
"I'm going to bring a flood on the Earth that will destroy everything alive under Heaven. Total destruction.
"I'm going to bring a flood on the Earth that will destroy everything alive under Heaven. Total destruction.
Genesis 7:5
Noah did everything God commanded him.
Noah did everything God commanded him.
Genesis 7:6
Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters covered the Earth. Noah and his wife and sons and their wives boarded the ship to escape the flood. Clean and unclean animals, birds, and all the crawling creatures came in pairs to Noah and to the ship, male and female, just as God had commanded Noah. In seven days the floodwaters came.
Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters covered the Earth. Noah and his wife and sons and their wives boarded the ship to escape the flood. Clean and unclean animals, birds, and all the crawling creatures came in pairs to Noah and to the ship, male and female, just as God had commanded Noah. In seven days the floodwaters came.
Genesis 7:11
It was the six-hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month that it happened: all the underground springs erupted and all the windows of Heaven were thrown open. Rain poured for forty days and forty nights.
It was the six-hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month that it happened: all the underground springs erupted and all the windows of Heaven were thrown open. Rain poured for forty days and forty nights.
Genesis 7:24
The floodwaters took over for 150 days.
The floodwaters took over for 150 days.
2 Kings 7:2
The attendant on whom the king leaned for support said to the Holy Man, "You expect us to believe that? Trapdoors opening in the sky and food tumbling out?" "You'll watch it with your own eyes," he said, "but you will not eat so much as a mouthful!"
The attendant on whom the king leaned for support said to the Holy Man, "You expect us to believe that? Trapdoors opening in the sky and food tumbling out?" "You'll watch it with your own eyes," he said, "but you will not eat so much as a mouthful!"
Isaiah 24:19
The Landscape Will Be a Moonscape Danger ahead! God 's about to ravish the earth and leave it in ruins, Rip everything out by the roots and send everyone scurrying: priests and laypeople alike, owners and workers alike, celebrities and nobodies alike, buyers and sellers alike, bankers and beggars alike, the haves and have-nots alike. The landscape will be a moonscape, totally wasted. And why? Because God says so. He's issued the orders. The earth turns gaunt and gray, the world silent and sad, sky and land lifeless, colorless. Earth is polluted by its very own people, who have broken its laws, Disrupted its order, violated the sacred and eternal covenant. Therefore a curse, like a cancer, ravages the earth. Its people pay the price of their sacrilege. They dwindle away, dying out one by one. No more wine, no more vineyards, no more songs or singers. The laughter of castanets is gone, the shouts of celebrants, gone, the laughter of fiddles, gone. No more parties with toasts of champagne. Serious drinkers gag on their drinks. The chaotic cities are unlivable. Anarchy reigns. Every house is boarded up, condemned. People riot in the streets for wine, but the good times are gone forever— no more joy for this old world. The city is dead and deserted, bulldozed into piles of rubble. That's the way it will be on this earth. This is the fate of all nations: An olive tree shaken clean of its olives, a grapevine picked clean of its grapes. But there are some who will break into glad song. Out of the west they'll shout of God 's majesty. Yes, from the east God 's glory will ascend. Every island of the sea Will broadcast God 's fame, the fame of the God of Israel. From the four winds and the seven seas we hear the singing: "All praise to the Righteous One!" But I said, "That's all well and good for somebody, but all I can see is doom, doom, and more doom." All of them at one another's throats, yes, all of them at one another's throats. Terror and pits and booby traps are everywhere, whoever you are. If you run from the terror, you'll fall into the pit. If you climb out of the pit, you'll get caught in the trap. Chaos pours out of the skies. The foundations of earth are crumbling. Earth is smashed to pieces, earth is ripped to shreds, earth is wobbling out of control, Earth staggers like a drunk, sways like a shack in a high wind. Its piled-up sins are too much for it. It collapses and won't get up again. That's when God will call on the carpet rebel powers in the skies and Rebel kings on earth. They'll be rounded up like prisoners in a jail, Corralled and locked up in a jail, and then sentenced and put to hard labor. Shamefaced moon will cower, humiliated, red-faced sun will skulk, disgraced, Because God -of-the-Angel-Armies will take over, ruling from Mount Zion and Jerusalem, Splendid and glorious before all his leaders.
The Landscape Will Be a Moonscape Danger ahead! God 's about to ravish the earth and leave it in ruins, Rip everything out by the roots and send everyone scurrying: priests and laypeople alike, owners and workers alike, celebrities and nobodies alike, buyers and sellers alike, bankers and beggars alike, the haves and have-nots alike. The landscape will be a moonscape, totally wasted. And why? Because God says so. He's issued the orders. The earth turns gaunt and gray, the world silent and sad, sky and land lifeless, colorless. Earth is polluted by its very own people, who have broken its laws, Disrupted its order, violated the sacred and eternal covenant. Therefore a curse, like a cancer, ravages the earth. Its people pay the price of their sacrilege. They dwindle away, dying out one by one. No more wine, no more vineyards, no more songs or singers. The laughter of castanets is gone, the shouts of celebrants, gone, the laughter of fiddles, gone. No more parties with toasts of champagne. Serious drinkers gag on their drinks. The chaotic cities are unlivable. Anarchy reigns. Every house is boarded up, condemned. People riot in the streets for wine, but the good times are gone forever— no more joy for this old world. The city is dead and deserted, bulldozed into piles of rubble. That's the way it will be on this earth. This is the fate of all nations: An olive tree shaken clean of its olives, a grapevine picked clean of its grapes. But there are some who will break into glad song. Out of the west they'll shout of God 's majesty. Yes, from the east God 's glory will ascend. Every island of the sea Will broadcast God 's fame, the fame of the God of Israel. From the four winds and the seven seas we hear the singing: "All praise to the Righteous One!" But I said, "That's all well and good for somebody, but all I can see is doom, doom, and more doom." All of them at one another's throats, yes, all of them at one another's throats. Terror and pits and booby traps are everywhere, whoever you are. If you run from the terror, you'll fall into the pit. If you climb out of the pit, you'll get caught in the trap. Chaos pours out of the skies. The foundations of earth are crumbling. Earth is smashed to pieces, earth is ripped to shreds, earth is wobbling out of control, Earth staggers like a drunk, sways like a shack in a high wind. Its piled-up sins are too much for it. It collapses and won't get up again. That's when God will call on the carpet rebel powers in the skies and Rebel kings on earth. They'll be rounded up like prisoners in a jail, Corralled and locked up in a jail, and then sentenced and put to hard labor. Shamefaced moon will cower, humiliated, red-faced sun will skulk, disgraced, Because God -of-the-Angel-Armies will take over, ruling from Mount Zion and Jerusalem, Splendid and glorious before all his leaders.
Ezekiel 26:19
"The Message of God , the Master: ‘When I turn you into a wasted city, a city empty of people, a ghost town, and when I bring up the great ocean deeps and cover you, then I'll push you down among those who go to the grave, the long, long dead. I'll make you live there, in the grave in old ruins, with the buried dead. You'll never see the land of the living again. I'll introduce you to the terrors of death and that'll be the end of you. They'll send out search parties for you, but you'll never be found. Decree of God , the Master.'"
"The Message of God , the Master: ‘When I turn you into a wasted city, a city empty of people, a ghost town, and when I bring up the great ocean deeps and cover you, then I'll push you down among those who go to the grave, the long, long dead. I'll make you live there, in the grave in old ruins, with the buried dead. You'll never see the land of the living again. I'll introduce you to the terrors of death and that'll be the end of you. They'll send out search parties for you, but you'll never be found. Decree of God , the Master.'"
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.
