John 9:33

Weymouth New Testament

Had that man not come from God, he could have done nothing."

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
If this man were not from God, he wouldn’t be able to do anything.”

King James Version (1611)
If this man were not of God, he could doe nothing.

King James Version
If this man were not of God, he could do nothing.

English Standard Version
If this man were not from God, he could do nothing."

New American Standard Bible
"If this Man were not from God, He could do nothing."

New Century Version
If this man were not from God, he could do nothing."

Amplified Bible
"If this Man were not from God, He would not be able to do anything [like this because God would not hear His prayer]."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"If this man were not from God, He could do nothing."

Legacy Standard Bible
If this man were not from God, He could do nothing."

Berean Standard Bible
If this man were not from God, He could do no such thing."

Contemporary English Version
Jesus could not do anything unless he came from God."

Complete Jewish Bible
If this man were not from God, he couldn't do a thing!"

Darby Translation
If this [man] were not of God he would be able to do nothing.

Easy-to-Read Version
This man must be from God. If he were not from God, he could not do anything like this."

Geneva Bible (1587)
If this man were not of God, hee could haue done nothing.

George Lamsa Translation
If this man were not from God, he could not have done this.

Good News Translation
Unless this man came from God, he would not be able to do a thing."

Lexham English Bible
If this man were not from God, he would not be able to do anything!"

Literal Translation
If this One was not from God, He could not do anything.

American Standard Version
If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.

Bible in Basic English
If this man did not come from God he would be unable to do anything.

Hebrew Names Version
If this man were not from God, he could do nothing."

International Standard Version
If this man were not from God, he couldn't do anything like that."John 9:16;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
If this were not from Aloha, he could not this have done.

Murdock Translation
If this man were not of God, he could not do this thing.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
If this man were not of God, he coulde haue done nothyng.

English Revised Version
If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.

World English Bible
If this man were not from God, he could do nothing."

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
If this man were not of God, he could do nothing.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
he myyt not do ony thing.

Update Bible Version
If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.

Webster's Bible Translation
If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.

New English Translation
If this man were not from God, he could do nothing."

New King James Version
If this Man were not from God, He could do nothing."

New Living Translation
If this man were not from God, he couldn't have done it."

New Life Bible
If this Man were not from God, He would not be able to do anything like this."

New Revised Standard
If this man were not from God, he could do nothing."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
If this man were not from God, he could have done nothing.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Unless this man were of God, he could not do anything.

Revised Standard Version
If this man were not from God, he could do nothing."

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
If this man were not of God he coulde have done no thinge.

Young's Literal Translation
if this one were not from God, he were not able to do anything.'

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Yf this man were not of God, he coulde haue done nothinge.

Mace New Testament (1729)
if this man had not his mission from God, he could do nothing.

Simplified Cowboy Version
If Jesus wasn't from God, he couldn't have done that and y'all know it."

Contextual Overview

¹³ They brought him to the Pharisees--the man who had been blind. ¹⁴ Now the day on which Jesus made the clay and opened the man's eyes was the Sabbath. ¹⁵ So the Pharisees renewed their questioning as to how he had obtained his sight. "He put clay on my eyes," he replied, "and I washed, and now I can see." ¹⁶ This led some of the Pharisees to say, "That man has not come from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath." "How is it possible for a bad man to do such miracles?" argued others. ¹⁷ And there was a division among them. So again they asked the once blind man, "What is your account of him? --for he opened your eyes." "He is a Prophet," he replied. ¹⁸ The Jews, however, did not believe the statement concerning him--that he had been blind and had obtained his sight--until they called his parents and asked them, ¹⁹ "Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How is it then that he can now see?" ²⁰ "We know," replied the parents, "that this is our son and that he was born blind; ²¹ but how it is that he can now see or who has opened his eyes we do not know. Ask him himself; he is of full age; he himself will give his own account of it." ²² Such was their answer, because they were afraid of the Jews; for the Jews had already settled among themselves that if any one should acknowledge Jesus as the Christ, he should be excluded from the synagogue.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

were: John 9:16, John 3:2, Acts 5:38, Acts 5:39

Reciprocal: John 15:5 - can Acts 2:22 - which

Gill's Notes on the Bible

If this man were not of God,.... If he had not his mission, commission, and credentials from God; if he had not been sent by him, and had not authority from him, and was not assisted by him, as man, or God was not with him,

he could do nothing; or "not do these things", as the Syriac version reads; that is, such miraculous works; or, as the Persic version, "he could not do this miracle": open the eyes of a man born blind. His doing this is a full proof that he is of God, and comes from him.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Could do nothing - Could do no such work as this. This reasoning was conclusive. The fact that Jesus could perform miracles like this was full proof that he was commissioned by God - proof that never has been and never can be refuted. One such miracle proves that he was from God. But Jesus gave many similar proofs, and thus put his divine mission beyond the possibility of doubt.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 33. If this man were not of God, c.] A very just conclusion: God is the fountain of all good: all good must proceed from him, and no good can be done but through him if this person were not commissioned by the good God, he could not perform such beneficent miracles as these.