Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
They were looking for Jesus and saying to one another while they were in the Temple, What is your opinion? Will he not come to the feast?
New American Standard Bible
So they
King James Version
Then sought they for Jesus, and spake among themselves, as they stood in the temple, What think ye, that he will not come to the feast?
Holman Bible
They were looking for Jesus and asking one another as they stood in the temple complex:
International Standard Version
They kept looking for Jesus and saying to one another as they stood in the Temple, "What do you think? Surely he won't come to the festival, will he?"
A Conservative Version
Therefore they sought Jesus, and spoke with each other as they stood in the temple, What does it seem to you? That he will, no, not come to the feast?
American Standard Version
They sought therefore for Jesus, and spake one with another, as they stood in the temple, What think ye? That he will not come to the feast?
Amplified
So they were looking for Jesus as they stood in the temple [area], and saying among themselves, “What do you think? Will He not come to the feast at all?”
An Understandable Version
So, they began looking for Jesus and saying among themselves, as they gathered in the Temple, "What do you think? He will not attend the Festival, will he?"
Anderson New Testament
Then they sought for Jesus, and said one to another, as they stood in the temple: What think you, that he will not come to the feast?
Common New Testament
They were looking for Jesus and saying to one another as they stood in the temple, "What do you think? That he will not come to the feast?"
Daniel Mace New Testament
when they were in the temple, they enquired for Jesus, and said to one another, do you think he will not be at the feast?
Darby Translation
They sought therefore Jesus, and said among themselves, standing in the temple, What do ye think? that he will not come to the feast?
Godbey New Testament
Then they were seeking Jesus, and standing in the temple, they were saying one with another, What seems to you; that He may not come to the feast?
Goodspeed New Testament
So they were looking for Jesus there, and asking one another as they stood in the Temple, "What do you think? Do you think he will not come to the festival at all?"
John Wesley New Testament
Then sought they for Jesus, and said one to another, What think ye?
Julia Smith Translation
Then sought they Jesus, and said with one another, standing in the temple, What seems it to you, that he should not come to the festival
King James 2000
Then sought they for Jesus, and spoke among themselves, as they stood in the temple, What think you, that he will not come to the feast?
Lexham Expanded Bible
So they were looking for Jesus, and were speaking with one another [while] standing in the temple [courts], "What do you think? That he will not come to the feast?"
Modern King James verseion
Then they sought Jesus, and spoke with one another as they stood in the temple, What does it seem to you, that He will not at all come to the feast?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Then sought they for Jesus, and spake between themselves, as they stood in the temple, "What think ye, seeing he cometh not to the feast?"
Moffatt New Testament
They looked out for Jesus, and as they stood in the temple they said to one another, "What do you think? Do you think he will not come up to the festival?"
Montgomery New Testament
So they kept looking for Jesus and saying to one another, as they stood in the Temple, "What do you think??hat he will not come to the feast at all?"
NET Bible
Thus they were looking for Jesus, and saying to one another as they stood in the temple courts, "What do you think? That he won't come to the feast?"
New Heart English Bible
Then they sought for Jesus and spoke one with another, as they stood in the temple, "What do you think?that he is not coming to the feast at all?"
Noyes New Testament
They sought therefore for Jesus, and said one to another, as they stood in the temple, What think ye? that he will not come to the feast?
Sawyer New Testament
Then they sought Jesus, and standing in the temple said one to another, What do you think? that he will not come to the feast?
The Emphasized Bible
They were therefore seeking Jesus, and were saying one to another, in the temple, standing - How seemeth it unto you? that he will in nowise come unto the feast?
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Then they sought for Jesus, and said one to another, as they stood in the temple, What think ye, that he will not come to the feast?
Twentieth Century New Testament
So they looked for Jesus there, and said to one another, as they stood in the Temple Courts: "What do you think? Do you think he will come to the Festival?"
Webster
Then they sought for Jesus, and spoke among themselves, as they stood in the temple, What think ye, that he will not come to the feast?
Weymouth New Testament
They therefore looked out for Jesus, and asked one another as they stood in the Temple, "What do you think? --will he come to the Festival at all?"
Williams New Testament
So they kept looking for Jesus and saying to one another, as they stood in the temple, "What do you think? Do you think He will not come to the feast at all?"
World English Bible
Then they sought for Jesus and spoke one with another, as they stood in the temple, "What do you think -- that he isn't coming to the feast at all?"
Worrell New Testament
They were, therefore, seeking for Jesus, and were saying one with another, while standing in the temple, "What think ye? That He will not come to the feast?"
Worsley New Testament
So they sought for Jesus, and said to one another in the temple, What think ye? that He will not come to the feast?
Youngs Literal Translation
they were seeking, therefore, Jesus, and said one with another, standing in the temple, 'What doth appear to you -- that he may not come to the feast?'
Interlinear
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Word Count of 37 Translations in John 11:56
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Jewish Leaders Plot To Kill Jesus
55 Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and numbers of people went up from the country to Jerusalem to make themselves clean before the Passover. 56 They were looking for Jesus and saying to one another while they were in the Temple, What is your opinion? Will he not come to the feast? 57 Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone had knowledge where he was, he was to give them word, so that they might take him.
Phrases
Cross References
John 7:11
At the feast the Jews were looking for him and saying, Where is he?
John 11:7-8
Then after that time he said to his disciples, Let us go into Judaea again.