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Simplified Cowboy Version

John 3:24

(This was before John was thrown in the slammer.)

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.
Good News Translation
(This was before John had been put in 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.

Contextual Overview

22Then Jesus and his cowboys left Jerusalem and went out into the countryside. Jesus stuck around there for a while baptizing people. 23John was out near Aenon doing his baptizing. He was there because there was plenty of water to baptize. 24(This was before John was thrown in the slammer.) 25Some of John's crew and some Jews got to squabblin' over being religiously clean. 26They went to John and said, "Boss, the guy you pointed out as the Top Hand is now baptizing people like you did. Folks are going to him instead of coming to us." 27John replied, "No one has anything unless God gives it to 'em. 28Don't forget that I told y'all that I ain't the Top Hand. I'm just bustin' a trail for him. 29When a man gets married, the best man isn't offended when everyone goes to talk to the groom. He's just happy to stand up with him and hear the vows that are made. I'm very happy for his success and now my life has been made complete. 30It's his time to shine, and time for me to saddle up and ride away. My job is done. 31He's rode down from heaven and is greater than anyone else that has ever stepped foot on this earth.

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

John 14:6
Jesus said, "I am the Trail, the Truth, and the Life. No one gets to God without going through me.

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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