Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
Nicodemus answered and said to Him, How can these things be?
New American Standard Bible
Nicodemus said to Him, “How can these things be?”
King James Version
Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?
Holman Bible
“How can these things be?” asked Nicodemus.
International Standard Version
Nicodemus asked him, "How can that be?"
A Conservative Version
Nicodemus answered and said to him, How can these things happen?
American Standard Version
Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?
Amplified
Nicodemus said to Him, “How can these things be possible?”
An Understandable Version
Then Nicodemus asked Jesus, "How can these things happen?"
Anderson New Testament
Nicodemus answered and said to him: How can these things be?
Bible in Basic English
And Nicodemus said to him, How is it possible for these things to be?
Common New Testament
Nicodemus said to him, "How can this be?"
Daniel Mace New Testament
Nicodemus answered, how can that be?
Darby Translation
Nicodemus answered and said to him, How can these things be?
Godbey New Testament
Nicodemus responded and said to Him, How are these things able to he?
Goodspeed New Testament
Nicodemus said to him, "How can that be?"
John Wesley New Testament
Nicodemus answered and said to him, How can these things be?
Julia Smith Translation
Nicodemus answered and said to him, How can these things be?
King James 2000
Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Nicodemus answered and said to him, "How can these [things] be?"
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And Nicodemus answered and said unto him, "How can these things be?"
Moffatt New Testament
Nicodemus answered, "How can that be?"
Montgomery New Testament
"How can this be?" said Nicodemus in reply.
NET Bible
Nicodemus replied, "How can these things be?"
New Heart English Bible
Nicodemus answered and said to him, "How can these things be?"
Noyes New Testament
Nicodemus answered and said to him, How can these things be?
Sawyer New Testament
Nicodemus answered and said to him, How can these things be?
The Emphasized Bible
Nicodemus answered, and said unto him - How, can these things, come about?
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?
Twentieth Century New Testament
"How can that be?" asked Nicodemus.
Webster
Nicodemus answered and said to him, How can these things be?
Weymouth New Testament
"How is all this possible?" asked Nicodemus.
Williams New Testament
Then Nicodemus answered by asking, "How can this be?"
World English Bible
Nicodemus answered him, "How can these things be?"
Worrell New Testament
Nicodemus answered, and said to Him, "How can these things be?"
Worsley New Testament
Nicodemus answered and said unto Him, How can these things be?
Youngs Literal Translation
Nicodemus answered and said to him, 'How are these things able to happen?'
Themes
Jesus Christ » History of » Nicodemus comes to jesus (in jerusalem)
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in John 3:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Meeting With Nicodemus
8 The Spirit breathes where He desires, and you hear His voice, but you do not know from where He comes, and where He goes; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit. 9 Nicodemus answered and said to Him, How can these things be? 10 Jesus answered and said to him, Are you the teacher of Israel and do not know these things?
Cross References
John 6:52
Then the Jews argued with one another, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?
John 6:60
Then when they had heard, many of His disciples said, This is a hard saying, who can hear it?
Luke 1:34
Then Mary said to the angel, How shall this be, since I do not know a man?
Proverbs 4:18
But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shines more and more to the perfect day.
Isaiah 42:16
And I will bring the blind by a way they knew not; I will lead them in paths they have not known; I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. I will do these things to them, and not forsake them.
Mark 8:24-25
And he looked up and said, I see men as trees, walking.
John 3:4
Nicodemus said to Him, How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb and be born?