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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

John 7:11

The Jews, therefore, were seeking him in the feast, and were saying - Where is that one?

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Jerusalem;   Jesus, the Christ;   Scofield Reference Index - Faith;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - John, gospel of;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Jesus Christ;   Suffering;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Quakers;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Candlestick;   Feasts;   Tabernacles, Feast of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Scribes;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Dispersion ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Tabernacles feast of;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Jesus of Nazareth;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The Jews were looking for him at the festival and saying, “Where is he?”
King James Version (1611)
Then the Iewes sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he?
King James Version
Then the Jews sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he?
English Standard Version
The Jews were looking for him at the feast, and saying, "Where is he?"
New American Standard Bible
So the Jews were looking for Him at the feast and saying, "Where is He?"
New Century Version
At the feast some people were looking for him and saying, "Where is that man?"
Amplified Bible
So the Jews kept looking for Him at the feast and asking, "Where is He?"
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So the Jews were seeking Him at the feast and were saying, "Where is He?"
Legacy Standard Bible
So the Jews were seeking Him at the feast and saying, "Where is He?"
Berean Standard Bible
So the Jews were looking for Him at the feast and asking, "Where is He?"
Contemporary English Version
During the festival the Jewish leaders looked for Jesus and asked, "Where is he?"
Complete Jewish Bible
At the festival, the Judeans were looking for him. "Where is he?" they asked.
Darby Translation
The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he?
Easy-to-Read Version
At the festival the Jewish leaders were looking for him. They said, "Where is that man?"
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then the Iewes sought him at the feast, and saide, Where is hee?
George Lamsa Translation
The Jews were looking for him at the feast and said, Where is he?
Good News Translation
The Jewish authorities were looking for him at the festival. "Where is he?" they asked.
Lexham English Bible
So the Jews were looking for him at the feast, and were saying, "Where is he?"
Literal Translation
Then the Jews sought Him in the feast, and said, Where is that One?
American Standard Version
The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he?
Bible in Basic English
At the feast the Jews were looking for him and saying, Where is he?
Hebrew Names Version
The Yehudim therefore sought him at the feast, and said, "Where is he?"
International Standard Version
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Etheridge Translation
But the Jihudoyee sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he ?
Murdock Translation
And the Jews sought for him at the feast; and they said, Where is he?
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then sought hym the Iewes at the feaste, and sayde, where is he?
English Revised Version
The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he?
World English Bible
The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, "Where is he?"
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Then the Jews sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he?
Weymouth's New Testament
Meanwhile the Jews at the Festival were looking for Him and were inquiring, "Where is he?"
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor the Jewis souyten hym in the feeste dai, and seiden, Where is he?
Update Bible Version
The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he?
Webster's Bible Translation
Then the Jews sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he?
New English Translation
So the Jewish leaders were looking for him at the feast, asking, "Where is he?"
New King James Version
Then the Jews sought Him at the feast, and said, "Where is He?"
New Living Translation
The Jewish leaders tried to find him at the festival and kept asking if anyone had seen him.
New Life Bible
At the religious gathering the Jews were looking for Jesus. They were saying, "Where is He?"
New Revised Standard
The Jews were looking for him at the festival and saying, "Where is he?"
Douay-Rheims Bible
The Jews therefore sought him on the festival day and said: Where is he?
Revised Standard Version
The Jews were looking for him at the feast, and saying, "Where is he?"
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Then sought him the Iewes at ye feast and sayde: Where is he?
Young's Literal Translation
the Jews, therefore, were seeking him, in the feast, and said, `Where is that one?'
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then sought him ye Iewes at ye feast, and sayde: Where is he?
Mace New Testament (1729)
during the feast the Jews were in search of him, and said, where can he be?
Simplified Cowboy Version
At the festival the Jewish leaders were all asking where Jesus was, but no one had seen him.

Contextual Overview

1 And, after these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee; for he was not wishing, in Judaea, to be walking, because the Jews were seeking to slay him. 2 But the feast of the Jews was near, that of the pitching of tents. 3 His brethren, therefore, said unto him - Remove hence, and withdraw into Judaea, that, thy disciples also, may view thy works which thou art doing. 4 For, no one, anything in secret, doeth, and yet is seeking, himself, to be well-known. If, these things, thou art doing, manifest thyself unto the world. 5 For, not even his brethren, were believing on him. 6 Jesus, therefore, saith unto them - My season, not yet, is here; but, your season, at anytime, is ready: 7 The world cannot hate you; but, me, it hateth, because, I, bear witness concerning it, that, the works thereof, are, wicked. 8 Ye, go up unto the feast: I, not yet, am coming up unto this feast, because, my season, not yet, hath fully come. 9 And, these things, having said unto them, he was still abiding in Galilee. 10 But, when his brethren had gone up unto the feast, then, he also, went up, - not openly, but as it were in secret.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Jews: John 11:56

Reciprocal: John 6:24 - seeking John 7:25 - of Jerusalem John 9:12 - Where

Cross-References

Genesis 1:7
And God made the expanse, and it divided between the waters that were under the expanse and the waters that were above the expanse. And it was so.
Genesis 6:17
And, I, behold me! bringing in the flood - even waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh wherein is the spirit of life, from under the heavens, - everything that is in the earth, shall cease to breathe:
Genesis 7:5
And Noah did, - according to all that Yahweh commanded him.
Genesis 7:6
Now, Noah, was six hundred years old, - when, the flood, came, even waters on the earth.
Genesis 7:8
Of the beasts that were clean, and of the beasts that were not clean, - and of the birds, and everything that creepeth on the ground,
Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year, the year of the life of Noah. in the second month on the seventeenth day of the month on this day, were burst open all the fountains of the great roaring deep, and the windows of the heavens, were set open.
Genesis 7:23
Thus was wiped out all that existed on the face of the ground, from man unto beast unto creeping thing, and unto the bird of the heavens, thus were they wiped out from the earth, - so that there was left - only Noah and they that were with him in the ark.
Genesis 7:24
Thus prevailed the waters on the earth, - a hundred and fifty days.
2 Kings 7:2
Then the officer on whose hand the king leaned responded to the man of God, and said, Even if Yahweh were making windows in the heavens, could this thing, come to pass? And he said - Lo! thou, art about to see it with thine own eyes, but, thereof, shalt thou not eat!
2 Kings 7:19
And when the officer responded to the man of God, and said, Lo! then, if Yahweh were making windows in the heavens, could it be according to this word? And he said, - Lo! thou art about to see it with thine own eyes, but, thereof, shalt thou not eat.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then the Jews sought him at the feast,.... Some to take him and kill him, and others to hear his doctrine, and see his miracles: for all expected him at the feast, knowing it was always his custom, as it was his duty, as an Israelite, to attend at it:

and said, where is he? not naming his name; either through contempt, which might be the case of the far greater part; or through fear of the Jews; or because that he was so well known.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse John 7:11. Then the Jews sought him — By Jews here are to be understood the scribes, Pharisees, and rulers of the people, and not the inhabitants of the province of Judea. It appears, from the following verses, that many of the people were prejudiced in his favour, but they dared not to own it publicly for fear of the Jews, i.e. for fear of the rulers of the people.


 
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