John 7:48

Updated Bible Version

Has any of the rulers believed on him, or of the Pharisees?

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Have any of the rulers or Pharisees believed in him?

King James Version (1611)
Haue any of the rulers, or of the Pharises beleeued on him?

King James Version
Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him?

English Standard Version
Have any of the authorities or the Pharisees believed in him?

New American Standard Bible
"Not one of the rulers or Pharisees has believed in Him, has he?

New Century Version
Have any of the leaders or the Pharisees believed in him? No!

Amplified Bible
"Has any of the rulers or Pharisees believed in Him?

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"No one of the rulers or Pharisees has believed in Him, has he?

Legacy Standard Bible
Have any of the rulers or Pharisees believed in Him?

Berean Standard Bible
"Have any of the rulers or Pharisees believed in Him?

Contemporary English Version
Not one of the chief priests or the Pharisees has faith in him.

Complete Jewish Bible
"Has any of the authorities trusted him? Or any of the P'rushim? No!

Darby Translation
Has any one of the rulers believed on him, or of the Pharisees?

Easy-to-Read Version
You don't see any of the leaders or any of us Pharisees believing in him, do you?

Geneva Bible (1587)
Doeth any of the rulers, or of the Pharises beleeue in him?

George Lamsa Translation
Why, have any of the leaders or of the Pharisees believed in him,

Good News Translation
"Have you ever known one of the authorities or one Pharisee to believe in him?

Lexham English Bible
None of the rulers or of the Pharisees have believed in him, have they?

Literal Translation
Not any from the rulers or from the Pharisees believed into Him have they ?

American Standard Version
Hath any of the rulers believed on him, or of the Pharisees?

Bible in Basic English
Have any of the rulers belief in him, or any one of the Pharisees?

Hebrew Names Version
Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Perushim?

International Standard Version
None of the authorities or Pharisees has believed in him, has he?John 12:42; Acts 6:7; 1 Corinthians 1:20,26; 2:8;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
Have any of the heads, or of the Pharishee, believed in him ?

Murdock Translation
Have any of the chiefs, or of the Pharisees, believed in him?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Doth any of the rulers or of the pharisees beleue on hym?

English Revised Version
Hath any of the rulers believed on him, or of the Pharisees?

World English Bible
Have any of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees?

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Hath any of the rulers believed on him, or of the Pharisees?

Weymouth's New Testament
"has any one of the Rulers or of the Pharisees believed in him?

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
whether ony of the pryncis or of the Farisees bileueden in hym?

Webster's Bible Translation
Have any of the rulers, or of the Pharisees believed on him?

New English Translation
None of the rulers or the Pharisees have believed in him, have they?

New King James Version
Have any of the rulers or the Pharisees believed in Him?

New Living Translation
"Is there a single one of us rulers or Pharisees who believes in him?

New Life Bible
Has anyone of the leaders or anyone from our group believed in Him?

New Revised Standard
Has any one of the authorities or of the Pharisees believed in him?

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Surely, none of the rulers, hath believed in him, nor of the Pharisees?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Hath any one of the rulers believed in him, or of the Pharisees?

Revised Standard Version
Have any of the authorities or of the Pharisees believed in him?

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Doth eny of the rulers or of the pharises beleve on him?

Young's Literal Translation
did any one out of the rulers believe in him? or out of the Pharisees?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Doth eny of the rulers or pharises beleue on him?

Mace New Testament (1729)
have any of the rulers, or of the Pharisees believed on him?

Simplified Cowboy Version
"Is there a single one of us leaders who have fallen for his lies? Is there even one of us who believes in him?

Contextual Overview

⁴⁵ The attendants therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said to them, Why didn't you bring him? ⁴⁶ The attendants answered, Never did man so speak. ⁴⁷ The Pharisees therefore answered them, Are you also led astray? ⁴⁸ Has any of the rulers believed on him, or of the Pharisees? ⁴⁹ But this multitude that doesn't know the law are accursed. ⁵⁰ Nicodemus, he that came to him before, being one of them, says to them, ⁵¹ Does our law judge a man, except it first hear from him and know what he does? ⁵² They answered and said to him, Are you also of Galilee? Search, and see that out of Galilee rises no prophet.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

John 7:26, John 7:50, John 12:42, Jeremiah 5:4, Jeremiah 5:5, Matthew 11:25, Acts 6:7, 1 Corinthians 1:20, 1 Corinthians 1:22-28, 1 Corinthians 2:8

Reciprocal: Job 32:9 - Great Proverbs 11:12 - that Mark 8:11 - Pharisees Mark 10:2 - the Pharisees Luke 6:20 - Blessed Luke 11:35 - General Luke 11:45 - thou John 9:34 - and dost John 11:49 - Ye Acts 17:34 - the Areopagite James 2:5 - Hath not

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Have any of the rulers,.... In the sanhedrim, or of the synagogues; or the civil magistrates, the noble, rich, and wealthy:

or of the Pharisees, believed on him; men famous for wisdom, learning, and holiness. It must be owned, there were but very few of this sort, and perhaps not an instance of this kind had as yet occurred to them; there was Nicodemus, who is mentioned in the context, who was both a ruler and a Pharisee; and Joseph of Arimathea, a rich counsellor; but they neither of them openly showed themselves to be the disciples of Christ till his death: and besides these, there were some women, as Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod's steward, Susanna, and some other women, who ministered to him of their substance; but the far greater part of his followers were poor and illiterate: and this has been the common case of those that have believed in Jesus, for the most part, ever since, and therefore should not be a stumbling to any. God is pleased to hide the great things of the Gospel from the wise and prudent, the rich and noble, and preach and reveal them to the poor and foolish: nor is a doctrine a whit the truer for being espoused by the rich, and wise men of this world, but rather to be suspected on that account.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The rulers - The members of the Sanhedrin, who were supposed to have control over the religious rites and doctrines of the nation.

The Pharisees - The sect possessing wealth, and office, and power. The name Pharisees sometimes denotes those who were high in honor and authority.

Believed on him - Is there any instance in which those who are high in rank or in office have embraced him as the Messiah? This shows the rule by which they judged of religion:

1. They claimed the right of regulating the doctrines and rites of religion.
2. They repressed the liberty of private judgment, stifled investigation, assumed that a new doctrine must be heresy, and labored to keep the people within inglorious bondage.
3. They treated the new doctrine of Jesus with contempt, and thus attempted to put it down, not by argument, but by contempt, and especially because it was embraced by the common people. This is the way in which doctrines contrary to the truth of God have been uniformly supported in the world; this is the way in which new views of truth are met; and this the way in which those in ecclesiastical power often attempt to lord it over God’s heritage, and to repress the investigation of the Bible.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 48. Have any of the rulers - believed on him? — Very few. But is this a proof that he is not of God? No, truly. If he were of the world, the world would love its own. The religion of Christ has been in general rejected by the rulers of this world. A life of mortification, self-denial, and humility, does not comport with the views of those who will have their portion in this life. It has ever been a mark of the truth of God that the great, the mighty, and the wise have in general rejected it. They are too much occupied with this world to attend to the concerns of the next.