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Mark 9:40

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Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Bigotry;   Catholicity;   Jesus, the Christ;   Toleration;   Thompson Chain Reference - Neutrality, No;   No;   The Topic Concordance - Belonging;   Offense;   Opposition;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Demon;   Miracle;   Persecution;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Boanerges;   Mark, the Gospel According to;   Salt;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Exorcism;   Mark, the Gospel of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Luke, Gospel According to;   Mss;   Salt;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Communion (2);   Discourse;   Mental Characteristics;   Perfection (of Jesus);   Toleration, Tolerance;   Trinity (2);   Unconscious Faith;   Winter ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Salt;   Transfiguration;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;   Gospel;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Discrepancies, Biblical;   Jesus Christ (Part 2 of 2);   Salvation;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For whoever is not against us is for us.
King James Version (1611)
For he that is not against vs, is on our part.
King James Version
For he that is not against us is on our part.
English Standard Version
For the one who is not against us is for us.
New American Standard Bible
"For the one who is not against us is for us.
New Century Version
Whoever is not against us is with us.
Amplified Bible
"For he who is not against us is for us.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"For he who is not against us is for us.
Legacy Standard Bible
For he who is not against us is for us.
Berean Standard Bible
For whoever is not against us is for us.
Contemporary English Version
Anyone who isn't against us is for us.
Complete Jewish Bible
For whoever is not against us is for us.
Darby Translation
for he who is not against us is for us.
Easy-to-Read Version
Whoever is not against us is with us.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For whosoeuer is not against vs, is on our part.
George Lamsa Translation
Therefore, he who is not against you is for you.
Good News Translation
For whoever is not against us is for us.
Lexham English Bible
For whoever is not against us is for us.
Literal Translation
For who is not against us is for us.
American Standard Version
For he that is not against us is for us.
Bible in Basic English
He who is not against us is for us.
Hebrew Names Version
For whoever is not against us is on our side.
International Standard Version
For whoever is not against us is for us.Matthew 12:30;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
He therefore who is not against you is for you.
Murdock Translation
Whoever therefore is not against you, is for you.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For he that is not against vs, is on our part.
English Revised Version
For he that is not against us is for us.
World English Bible
For whoever is not against us is on our side.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
For he that is not against you, is for you. For whosoever shall give you a cup of cold water to drink in my name,
Weymouth's New Testament
He who is not against us is for us;
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He that is not ayens vs, is for vs.
Update Bible Version
For he that is not against us is for us.
Webster's Bible Translation
For he that is not against us, is on our part.
New English Translation
For whoever is not against us is for us.
New King James Version
"For he who is not against us is on our [fn] side.
New Living Translation
Anyone who is not against us is for us.
New Life Bible
The person who is not against us is for us.
New Revised Standard
Whoever is not against us is for us.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, whosoever is not, against, us, is, for, us;
Douay-Rheims Bible
(9-39) For he that is not against you is for you.
Revised Standard Version
For he that is not against us is for us.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Whosoever is not agaynste you is on youre parte.
Young's Literal Translation
for he who is not against us is for us;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For who so euer is not agaynst vs, the same is for vs.
Mace New Testament (1729)
such a one is not against us, but for us.
Simplified Cowboy Version
If someone ain't riding against us, then he is riding for us.

Contextual Overview

30Leaving there, they went through Galilee. He didn't want anyone to know their whereabouts, for he wanted to teach his disciples. He told them, "The Son of Man is about to be betrayed to some people who want nothing to do with God. They will murder him. Three days after his murder, he will rise, alive." They didn't know what he was talking about, but were afraid to ask him about it. 33 They came to Capernaum. When he was safe at home, he asked them, "What were you discussing on the road?" 34 The silence was deafening—they had been arguing with one another over who among them was greatest. 35 He sat down and summoned the Twelve. "So you want first place? Then take the last place. Be the servant of all." 36He put a child in the middle of the room. Then, cradling the little one in his arms, he said, "Whoever embraces one of these children as I do embraces me, and far more than me—God who sent me." 38 John spoke up, "Teacher, we saw a man using your name to expel demons and we stopped him because he wasn't in our group." 39Jesus wasn't pleased. "Don't stop him. No one can use my name to do something good and powerful, and in the next breath cut me down. If he's not an enemy, he's an ally. Why, anyone by just giving you a cup of water in my name is on our side. Count on it that God will notice.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Matthew 12:30, Luke 11:23

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For he that is not against us, is on our part. Many copies read, "he that is not against you, is for you"; as this man; he was not against either Christ, or his disciples; he was doing the same work, promoting the same interest, and destroying the kingdom of Satan: and therefore, though he did not follow them, and had not his commission immediately from Christ; yet, inasmuch as he was opposing the same common enemy, and did nothing against them, he ought to be reckoned as one for them, and on their side. It is a proverbial expression, signifying that all that are not against a man, and take not the part of his enemy, are to be accounted his friends.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 40. He that is not against us, is on our part. — Or rather, Whosoever is not against YOU, is for YOU. Instead of ημων, us, I would read υμων, you, on the authority of ADSHV, upwards of forty others, Syriac, Armenian, Persic, Coptic, AEthiopic, Gothic, Slavonic, Vulgate, Itala, Victor, and Opt. This reading is more consistent with the context - He followed not us-well, he is not against YOU; and he who is not against you, in such a work, may be fairly presumed to be on your side.

There is a parallel case to this mentioned in Numbers 11:26-29, which, for the elucidation of this passage, I will transcribe. "The Spirit rested upon Eldad and Medad, and they prophesied in the camp. And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp. And Joshua, the servant of Moses, said, My lord Moses, forbid them! And Moses said unto him, Enviest THOU for MY sake? Would God, that all the Lord's people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his Spirit upon them." The reader will easily observe that Joshua and John were of the same bigoted spirit; and that Jesus and Moses acted from the spirit of candour and benevolence. See the notes on Numbers 11:25-29.


 
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