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Literal Standard Version

John 3:24

for John was not yet cast into the prison—

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.
Simplified Cowboy Version
(This was before John was thrown in the slammer.)

Contextual Overview

22After these things Jesus and His disciples came into the land of Judea, and there He tarried with them, and was immersing; 23and John was also immersing in Aenon, near to Salem, because there were many waters there, and they were coming and were being immersed— 24for John was not yet cast into the prison—25there arose then a question from the disciples of John with [some] Jews about purifying, 26and they came to John and said to him, "Rabbi, He who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you testified, behold, this One is immersing, and all are coming to Him." 27John answered and said, "A man is not able to receive anything if it may not have been given him from Heaven; 28you yourselves testify to me that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am having been sent before Him; 29He who is having the bride is bridegroom, and the friend of the bridegroom, who is standing and hearing Him, rejoices with joy because of the voice of the bridegroom; this, then, my joy has been fulfilled. 30It is necessary [for] Him to increase, and me to become less; 31He who is coming from above is above all; he who is from the earth, from the earth he is, and from the earth he speaks; He who is coming from Heaven is above all.

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

Genesis 3:2
And the woman says to the serpent, "From the fruit of the trees of the garden we eat,
Genesis 3:8
And they hear the sound of YHWH God walking up and down in the garden at the breeze of the day, and the man and his wife hide themselves from the face of YHWH God in the midst of the trees of the garden.
Genesis 3:9
And YHWH God calls to the man and says to him, "Where [are] you?"
Genesis 3:16
To the woman He said, "Multiplying I multiply your sorrow and your conception; you will bear children in sorrow, and your desire [is] toward your Man [[or husband]], and He [[or he]] will rule over you."
Genesis 3:17
And to the man He said, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and eat from the tree concerning which I have charged you, saying, You do not eat of it, cursed [is] the ground on your account; in sorrow you eat of it [for] all days of your life,
Genesis 3:18
and it brings forth thorn and bramble for you, and you have eaten the herb of the field;
Genesis 3:22
And YHWH God says, "Behold, the man was as one of Us, as to the knowledge of good and evil; and now, lest he send forth his hand, and has also taken from the Tree of Life, and eaten, and lived for all time."
Exodus 25:2
"Speak to the sons of Israel, and they take a raised-offering for Me; you take My raised-offering from every man whose heart impels him.
Numbers 22:23
and the donkey sees the Messenger of YHWH standing in the way with His drawn sword in His hand, and the donkey turns aside out of the way and goes into a field, and Balaam strikes the donkey to turn it aside into the way.
Joshua 5:13
And it comes to pass in Joshua's being by Jericho, that he lifts up his eyes, and looks, and behold, [there is] one standing in front of him, and his drawn sword [is] in his hand, and Joshua goes to him, and says to him, "Are you for us or for our adversaries?"

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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