Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
And this was John's answer: A man is unable to have anything if it is not given to him from heaven.
New American Standard Bible
John answered and said, “
King James Version
John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.
Holman Bible
John responded, “No one can receive a single thing unless it’s given to him from heaven.
International Standard Version
John replied, "No one can receive anything unless it has been given to them from heaven.
A Conservative Version
John answered and said, A man can receive nothing unless it is given to him from heaven.
American Standard Version
John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it have been given him from heaven.
Amplified
John replied, “A man can receive nothing [he can claim nothing at all] unless it has been granted to him from heaven [for there is no other source than the sovereign will of God].
An Understandable Version
John replied to them, "A person cannot receive anything, unless it has been given to him from [God in] heaven.
Anderson New Testament
John answered and said: A man can receive nothing unless it be given to him from heaven.
Common New Testament
John answered, "A man can receive only what is given to him from heaven.
Daniel Mace New Testament
but John made them this answer, a man can have no authority, but what he derives from heaven.
Darby Translation
John answered and said, A man can receive nothing unless it be given him out of heaven.
Godbey New Testament
John responded and said, No man is able to receive anything, unless it may have been given unto him from heaven.
Goodspeed New Testament
John answered, "A man cannot get anything unless it is given to him from heaven.
John Wesley New Testament
John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, unless it be given him from heaven.
Julia Smith Translation
John answered and said, No man can receive anything except it be given him from heaven.
King James 2000
John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.
Lexham Expanded Bible
John answered and said, "A man can receive not one [thing] unless it is granted to him from heaven!
Modern King James verseion
And John answered and said, A man can receive nothing unless it is given to him from Heaven.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
John answered, and said, "A man can receive nothing at all except it be given him from heaven.
Moffatt New Testament
John answered, "No one can receive anything except as a gift from heaven.
Montgomery New Testament
In reply John said: "A man cannot obtain anything unless it has been granted to him from heaven.
NET Bible
John replied, "No one can receive anything unless it has been given to him from heaven.
New Heart English Bible
John answered, "A man can receive nothing, unless it has been given to him from heaven.
Noyes New Testament
John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, unless it be given him from heaven.
Sawyer New Testament
John answered and said, A man can receive nothing unless it is given him from heaven.
The Emphasized Bible
John answered, and said - A man can receive, nothing, except it have been given him out of heaven.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
John answered and said, A man cannot assume any thing, except it be given him from heaven.
Twentieth Century New Testament
John's answer was--"A man can gain nothing but what is given him from Heaven.
Webster
John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven.
Weymouth New Testament
"A man cannot obtain anything," replied John, "unless it has been granted to him from Heaven.
Williams New Testament
John answered, "A man cannot get anything, unless it is given to him from heaven.
World English Bible
John answered, "A man can receive nothing, unless it has been given him from heaven.
Worrell New Testament
John answered and said, "A man can receive nothing, unless it has been given to him from Heaven.
Worsley New Testament
John answered and said, A man can take nothing upon him, unless it be given him from heaven.
Youngs Literal Translation
John answered and said, 'A man is not able to receive anything, if it may not have been given him from the heaven;
Themes
Dependence » Human weakness renders men dependent upon God
Gifts » From God » He the only source of
John » Testifies to the messiahship of jesus
John the baptist » John the baptist being sent to prepare the way for jesus Christ
Interlinear
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References
Easton
Fausets
Word Count of 37 Translations in John 3:27
Verse Info
Context Readings
Additional Testimony By John The Baptist About Jesus
26 And they went to John and said to him, Rabbi, the man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan, the man to whom you gave witness, is now giving baptism, and everyone is going to him. 27 And this was John's answer: A man is unable to have anything if it is not given to him from heaven. 28 You yourselves give witness that I said, I am not the Christ. What I said was, I am sent before the Christ.
Phrases
Cross References
1 Corinthians 4:7
For who made you better than your brother? or what have you that has not been given to you? but if it has been given to you, what cause have you for pride, as if it had not been given to you?
James 1:17
Every good and true thing is given to us from heaven, coming from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change or any shade made by turning.
Matthew 21:25
The baptism of John, where did it come from? from heaven or from men? And they were reasoning among themselves, saying, If we say, From heaven; he will say to us, Why then did you not have faith in him?
Numbers 16:9-11
Does it seem only a small thing to you that the God of Israel has made you separate from the rest of Israel, letting you come near himself to do the work of the House of the Lord, and to take your place before the people to do what has to be done for them;
Numbers 17:5
And the rod of that man who is marked out by me for myself will have buds on it; so I will put a stop to the outcries which the children of Israel make to me against you.
1 Chronicles 28:4-5
Though the Lord, the God of Israel, took me out of all my father's family, to be king over Israel for ever, marking out Judah to be chief, and, of the people of Judah, my father's family; and among the sons of my father he was pleased to make me king over all Israel;
Jeremiah 1:5
Before you were formed in the body of your mother I had knowledge of you, and before your birth I made you holy; I have given you the work of being a prophet to the nations.
Jeremiah 17:16
As for me, I have not said; Let the day of trouble come to them quickly; and I have not been hoping for the death-giving day; you have knowledge of what came from my lips; it was open before you.
Amos 7:15
And the Lord took me from the flock, and the Lord said to me, Go, be a prophet to my people Israel.
Matthew 25:15
And to one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one; to everyone as he was able; and he went on his journey.
Mark 11:30-31
The baptism of John, was it from heaven or from men? give me an answer.
Mark 13:34
It is as when a man who is in another country for a time, having gone away from his house, and given authority to his servants and to everyone his work, gives the porter an order to keep watch.
Romans 1:5
Through whom grace has been given to us, sending us out to make disciples to the faith among all nations, for his name:
Romans 12:6
And having different qualities by reason of the grace given to us, such as the quality of a prophet, let it be made use of in relation to the measure of our faith;
1 Corinthians 1:1
Paul, an Apostle of Jesus Christ by the purpose of God, and Sosthenes the brother,
1 Corinthians 2:12-14
But we have not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which comes from God, so that we may have knowledge of the things which are freely given to us by God.
1 Corinthians 3:5
What then is Apollos? and what is Paul? They are but servants who gave you the good news as God gave it to them.
1 Corinthians 12:11
But all these are the operations of the one and the same Spirit, giving to every man separately as his pleasure is.
1 Corinthians 15:10
But by the grace of God, I am what I am: and his grace which was given to me has not been for nothing; for I did more work than all of them; though not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
Galatians 1:1
Paul, an Apostle (not from men, and not through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who made him come back from the dead),
Ephesians 1:1
Paul, an Apostle of Christ Jesus by the purpose of God, to the saints who are at Ephesus, and those who have faith in Christ Jesus:
Ephesians 3:7-8
Of which I was made a preacher, through that grace of God which was given to me in the measure of the working of his power.
1 Timothy 2:7
And of this I became a preacher and an Apostle (what I say is true, not false,) and a teacher of the Gentiles in the true faith.
Hebrews 5:4-5
And no man who is not given authority by God, as Aaron was, takes this honour for himself.
1 Peter 4:10-11
Making distribution among one another of whatever has been given to you, like true servants of the unmeasured grace of God;