Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
Verily, verily, I say to thee -- What we have known we speak, and what we have seen we testify, and our testimony ye do not receive;
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness.
Holman Bible
International Standard Version
Truly, I tell you emphatically, we know what we're talking about, and we testify about what we've seen. Yet you people do not accept our testimony.
A Conservative Version
Truly, truly, I say to thee, we speak that which we know, and testify of what we have seen, and ye do not accept our testimony.
American Standard Version
Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that which we know, and bear witness of that which we have seen; and ye receive not our witness.
Amplified
An Understandable Version
Truly, truly, I tell you, we [i.e., Jesus and His disciples] speak about what we know, and testify about what we have seen, but you do not accept our testimony.
Anderson New Testament
Verily, verily, I say to you, we speak that which we know, and testify to that which we have seen; and you receive not our testimony.
Bible in Basic English
Truly, I say to you, We say that of which we have knowledge; we give witness of what we have seen; and you do not take our witness to be true.
Common New Testament
Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know, and testify to what we have seen; but you do not receive our testimony.
Daniel Mace New Testament
I declare unto thee, we speak what we know, and testify what we have seen; but you do not receive our testimony.
Darby Translation
Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that which we know, and we bear witness of that which we have seen, and ye receive not our witness.
Godbey New Testament
Truly, truly, I say unto thee, that we speak what we know, and testify what we have seen; and you received not our testimony.
Goodspeed New Testament
I tell you, we know what we are talking about and we have seen the things we testify to, yet you all reject our testimony.
John Wesley New Testament
Verily, verily I say to thee, we speak what we know, and testify what we have seen; yet ye receive not our testimony.
Julia Smith Translation
Truly, truly, I say to thee, that what we know, we speak, and what we have seen we testify; and ye receive not our testimony.
King James 2000
Verily, verily, I say unto you, We speak what we do know, and testify what we have seen; and you receive not our witness.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Truly, truly I say to you, we speak what we know, and we testify [about] what we have seen, and you do not accept our testimony!
Modern King James verseion
Truly, truly, I say to you, We speak what we know and testify what we have seen. And you do not receive our witness.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Verily, verily I say unto thee, we speak that we know, and testify that we have seen: And ye receive not our witness.
Moffatt New Testament
Truly, truly I tell you, we are speaking of what we do understand, we testify to what we have actually seen ??and yet you refuse our testimony.
Montgomery New Testament
"Most solemnly I tell you we are speaking of what we know, and it is about that of which we were eyewitnesses that we give testimony. Yet all of you reject our testimony.
NET Bible
I tell you the solemn truth, we speak about what we know and testify about what we have seen, but you people do not accept our testimony.
New Heart English Bible
Truly, truly, I tell you, we speak that which we know, and testify of that which we have seen, and you do not receive our witness.
Noyes New Testament
Truly, truly do I say to thee, We speak that which we know, and testify that which we have seen; and ye receive not our testimony.
Sawyer New Testament
I tell you most truly, that we speak what we know, and what we have seen we testify; and you receive not our testimony.
The Emphasized Bible
Verily, verily, I say unto thee: What we know, we speak, and, of what we have seen, we bear witness, and, our witness, ye receive not.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Verily, verity, I tell thee, That what we know we speak, and what we have seen we affirm; and ye receive not our testimony.
Twentieth Century New Testament
In truth I tell you that we speak of what we know, and state what we have seen; and yet you do not accept our statements.
Webster
Verily, verily, I say to thee, We speak what we know, and testify what we have seen; and ye receive not our testimony.
Weymouth New Testament
In most solemn truth I tell you that we speak what we know, and give testimony of that of which we were eye-witnesses, and yet you all reject our testimony.
Williams New Testament
I most solemnly say to you, we know what we are talking about and we have seen what we are testifying to, yet you are all rejecting our testimony.
World English Bible
Most certainly I tell you, we speak that which we know, and testify of that which we have seen, and you don't receive our witness.
Worrell New Testament
Verily, verily, I say to you, We speak that which We know, and testify to that which We have seen; and ye receive not Our testimony.
Worsley New Testament
I assure thee, that we speak what we know, and testify what we have seen; though ye receive not our testimony.
Themes
Christ » Witness, a » To the truth
Jesus Christ » History of » Nicodemus comes to jesus (in jerusalem)
Knowledge » Prepares men for the duties of life » Christ's message grounded in experience
Topics
Interlinear
Hos
ὅς ἥ ὅ
Hos
which, whom, that, who, whose, what, that which, whereof,
Usage: 980
and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0
Martureo
Word Count of 37 Translations in John 3:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Meeting With Nicodemus
10 Jesus answered and said to him, 'Thou art the teacher of Israel -- and these things thou dost not know! 11 Verily, verily, I say to thee -- What we have known we speak, and what we have seen we testify, and our testimony ye do not receive; 12 if the earthly things I said to you, and ye do not believe, how, if I shall say to you the heavenly things, will ye believe?
Cross References
John 1:18
God no one hath ever seen; the only begotten Son, who is on the bosom of the Father -- he did declare.
John 7:16
Jesus answered them and said, 'My teaching is not mine, but His who sent me;
John 5:43
'I have come in the name of my Father, and ye do not receive me; if another may come in his own name, him ye will receive;
John 12:49
because I spake not from myself, but the Father who sent me, He did give me a command, what I may say, and what I may speak,
John 14:24
he who is not loving me, my words doth not keep; and the word that ye hear is not mine, but the Father's who sent me.
Isaiah 50:2
Wherefore have I come, and there is no one? I called, and there is none answering, Hath My hand been at all short of redemption? And is there not in me power to deliver? Lo, by My rebuke I dry up a sea, I make rivers a wilderness, Their fish stinketh, for there is no water, And dieth with thirst.
Isaiah 53:1
Who hath given credence to that which we heard? And the arm of Jehovah, On whom hath it been revealed?
Isaiah 55:4
Lo, a witness to peoples I have given him, A leader and commander to peoples.
Isaiah 65:2
I have spread out My hands all the day Unto an apostate people, Who are going in the way not good after their own thoughts.
Matthew 11:27
All things were delivered to me by my Father, and none doth know the Son, except the Father, nor doth any know the Father, except the Son, and he to whom the Son may wish to reveal Him.
Matthew 23:37
'Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that art killing the prophets, and stoning those sent unto thee, how often did I will to gather thy children together, as a hen doth gather her own chickens under the wings, and ye did not will.
Luke 10:22
All things were delivered up to me by my Father, and no one doth know who the Son is, except the Father, and who the Father is, except the Son, and he to whom the Son may wish to reveal Him.'
John 1:11
to his own things he came, and his own people did not receive him;
John 3:3
Jesus answered and said to him, 'Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born from above, he is not able to see the reign of God;'
John 3:5
Jesus answered, 'Verily, verily, I say to thee, If any one may not be born of water, and the Spirit, he is not able to enter into the reign of God;
John 3:13
and no one hath gone up to the heaven, except he who out of the heaven came down -- the Son of Man who is in the heaven.
John 3:32-34
'And what he hath seen and heard this he doth testify, and his testimony none receiveth;
John 5:31-40
'If I testify concerning myself, my testimony is not true;
John 8:14
Jesus answered and said to them, 'And if I testify of myself -- my testimony is true, because I have known whence I came, and whither I go, and ye -- ye have not known whence I come, or whither I go.
John 8:28-29
Jesus, therefore, said to them, 'When ye may lift up the Son of Man then ye will know that I am he; and of myself I do nothing, but according as my Father did teach me, these things I speak;
John 8:38
I -- that which I have seen with my Father do speak, and ye, therefore, that which ye have seen with your father -- ye do.'
John 12:37-38
yet he having done so many signs before them, they were not believing in him,
Acts 22:18
and I saw him saying to me, Haste and go forth in haste out of Jerusalem, because they will not receive thy testimony concerning me;
Acts 28:23-27
and having appointed him a day, they came, more of them unto him, to the lodging, to whom he was expounding, testifying fully the reign of God, persuading them also of the things concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses, and the prophets, from morning till evening,
2 Corinthians 4:4
in whom the god of this age did blind the minds of the unbelieving, that there doth not shine forth to them the enlightening of the good news of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God;
1 John 1:1-3
That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we did behold, and our hands did handle, concerning the Word of the Life --
1 John 5:6-12
This one is he who did come through water and blood -- Jesus the Christ, not in the water only, but in the water and the blood; and the Spirit it is that is testifying, because the Spirit is the truth,
Revelation 1:5
and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the first-born out of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth; to him who did love us, and did bathe us from our sins in his blood,
Revelation 3:14
And to the messenger of the assembly of the Laodiceans write: These things saith the Amen, the witness -- the faithful and true -- the chief of the creation of God;