John 6:62

New King James Version

What then if you should see the Son of Man ascend where He was before?

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then what if you were to observe the Son of Man

King James Version (1611)
What and if yee shall see the sonne of man ascend vp where hee was before?

King James Version
What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?

English Standard Version
Then what if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?

New American Standard Bible
"What then if you see the Son of Man ascending to where He was before?

New Century Version
Then will it also bother you to see the Son of Man going back to the place where he came from?

Amplified Bible
"What then [will you think] if you see the Son of Man ascending to [the realm] where He was before?

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"What then if you see the Son of Man ascending to where He was before?

Legacy Standard Bible
What then if you see the Son of Man ascending to where He was before?

Berean Standard Bible
Then what will happen if you see the Son of Man ascend to where He was before?

Contemporary English Version
What if you should see the Son of Man go up to heaven where he came from?

Complete Jewish Bible
Suppose you were to see the Son of Man going back up to where he was before?

Darby Translation
If then ye see the Son of man ascending up where he was before?

Easy-to-Read Version
Then what will you think when you see the Son of Man going up to where he came from?

Geneva Bible (1587)
What then if yee should see that Sonne of man ascend vp where he was before?

George Lamsa Translation
What then if you should see the Son of man ascending to the place where he was before?

Good News Translation
Suppose, then, that you should see the Son of Man go back up to the place where he was before?

Lexham English Bible
Then what if you see the Son of Man ascending where he was before?

Literal Translation
Then what if you see the Son of Man going up where He was at first?

American Standard Version
What then if ye should behold the Son of man ascending where he was before?

Bible in Basic English
What then will you say if you see the Son of man going up to where he was before?

Hebrew Names Version
What if you would see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?

International Standard Version
What if you saw the Son of Man going up to the place where he was before?Mark 16:19; John 3:13; Acts 1:9; Ephesians 4:8;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
If you shall see then the Son of man ascend up to the place where he was from the first ?

Murdock Translation
If then, ye were to see the Son of man ascend, to where he was from the beginning!

Bishop's Bible (1568)
What and yf ye shall see the sonne of man ascende vp thyther where he was before?

English Revised Version
What then if ye should behold the Son of man ascending where he was before?

World English Bible
What if you would see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
What if ye shall see the Son of man ascend where he was before?

Weymouth's New Testament
"Does this seem incredible to you? What then if you were to see the Son of Man ascending again where He was before?

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor if ye seen mannus sone stiynge, where he was bifor?

Update Bible Version
[What] then if you should see the Son of man ascending where he was before?

Webster's Bible Translation
[What] if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?

New English Translation
Then what if you see the Son of Man ascending where he was before?

New Living Translation
Then what will you think if you see the Son of Man ascend to heaven again?

New Life Bible
Then what would you say if you saw the Son of Man going up where He was before?

New Revised Standard
Then what if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
What then, if ye should view the Son of Man ascending where he was before? …

Douay-Rheims Bible
(6-63) If then you shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?

Revised Standard Version
Then what if you were to see the Son of man ascending where he was before?

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
What and yf ye shall se the sonne of man ascede vp where he was before?

Young's Literal Translation
if then ye may behold the Son of Man going up where he was before?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
What and yf ye shal se the sonne of man ascende vp thither, where he was afore?

Mace New Testament (1729)
what if you should see the son of man ascend up where he was before?

Simplified Cowboy Version
If this is too much, then what would you think if you saw the Top Hand ride back into heaven with your own eyes?

Contextual Overview

⁶⁰ Therefore many of His disciples, when they heard this, said, "This is a hard saying; who can understand it?" ⁶¹ When Jesus knew in Himself that His disciples complained about this, He said to them, "Does this offend you? ⁶² What then if you should see the Son of Man ascend where He was before? ⁶³ It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life. ⁶⁴ But there are some of you who do not believe." For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who would betray Him. ⁶⁵ And He said, "Therefore I have said to you that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted to him by My Father." ⁶⁶ From that time many of His disciples went back and walked with Him no more. ⁶⁷ Then Jesus said to the twelve, "Do you also want to go away?" ⁶⁸ But Simon Peter answered Him, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. ⁶⁹ Also we have come to believe and know that You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." [fn]

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

John 3:13, John 16:28, John 17:4, John 17:5, John 17:11, Mark 16:19, Luke 24:51, Acts 1:9, Ephesians 4:8-10, 1 Peter 3:22

Reciprocal: Luke 9:51 - that John 16:5 - I Acts 1:2 - the day Ephesians 4:9 - he ascended 1 Timothy 3:16 - received Hebrews 9:24 - but

Gill's Notes on the Bible

[What] and if ye shall see the son of man,.... Meaning himself then in a state of humiliation, and was taken for a mere man, though the true Messiah, and Son of God:

ascend up where he was before? for Christ was, he existed before his incarnation, and he was in heaven before; not in his human nature, but as the word and Son of God: and he intimates, that when he had done his work, and the will of his Father, for which he came down from heaven, by the assumption of the human nature, he should ascend up thither again; and which would be seen, as it was, by his apostles; and which would prove that he came down from heaven, as he had asserted; see Ephesians 4:9; and that his flesh and blood were not to be eaten in a corporeal sense; in which sense they understood him: and he hereby suggests, that if it was difficult to receive, and hard to be understood, and was surprising and incredible, that he should come down from heaven, as bread, to be eat and fed upon; it would be much more so to them to be told, that he who was in so mean and lowly a form, should ascend up into heaven.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

What and if ... - Jesus does not say that those who were then present would see him ascend, but he implies that he would ascend. They had taken offence because he said he came down from heaven. Instead of explaining that away, he proceeds to state another doctrine quite as offensive to them - that he would reascend to heaven. The apostles only were present at his ascension, Acts 1:9. As Jesus was to ascend to heaven, it was clear that he could not have intended literally that they should eat his flesh.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 62. If ye shall see the Son of man ascend — Ye need not be stumbled at what I say concerning eating my flesh and drinking my blood, for ye shall soon have the fullest proof that this is figuratively spoken, for I shall ascend with the same body with which I shall arise from the dead; therefore my flesh and blood, far from being eaten by men, shall not even be found among them.