Parallel Verses
Noyes New Testament
John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, unless it be given 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.
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.
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.
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 came to John, and said to him, Rabbi, he who was with thee beyond the Jordan, to whom thou hast borne witness, behold, he baptizeth, and all men are going to him. 27 John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, unless it be given him from heaven. 28 Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I was sent before that man.
Phrases
Cross References
1 Corinthians 4:7
For who maketh thee to differ from another? And what hast thou that thou didst not receive? But if thou didst receive it, why dost thou boast, as if thou hadst not received it?
James 1:17
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom is no change, nor shadow from turning.
Matthew 21:25
The baptism of John, whence was it? From heaven, or from men? And they reasoned among themselves, saying, If we say, From heaven, he will say to us, Why then did ye not believe him?
Matthew 25:15
and to one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one, to each according to his ability, and went abroad.
Mark 11:30-31
The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or from men? Answer me.
Mark 13:34
As a man going abroad, having left his house and given authority to his servants, to each one his work, also commanded the porter to watch,
Romans 1:5
through whom we received grace and the office of an apostle in behalf of his name, in order to produce obedience to the faith among all nations;
Romans 12:6
Having then gifts which dither according to the grace which hath been bestowed upon us, if we have prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;
1 Corinthians 1:1
Paul, a called apostle of Christ Jesus, through the will of God, and Sosthenes the brother,
1 Corinthians 2:12-14
But we did not receive the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that have been given to us by the grace of God;
1 Corinthians 3:5
Who then is Apollos, and who is Paul, but ministers through whom ye believed, and that as the Lord gave to each?
1 Corinthians 12:11
But all these worketh the one and selfsame Spirit, allotting to each one severally as it will.
1 Corinthians 15:10
But by the grace of God I am what I am; and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain, but I labored more abundantly than they all; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
Galatians 1:1
Paul, an apostle, not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead,
Ephesians 1:1
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, to the saints who are [in Ephesus], and believers in Christ Jesus:
Ephesians 3:7-8
of which I became a minister according to the gift of the grace of God, given to me according to the effectual working of his power.
1 Timothy 2:7
whereunto I was appointed a herald and an apostle, (I speak the truth, I lie not,) a teacher of the gentiles in faith and truth.
Hebrews 5:4-5
And no one taketh this honor to himself, but when called by God, as was Aaron.
1 Peter 4:10-11
According as each one hath received a gift, minister the same to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.