Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And Nicodemus answered and said unto 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 King James verseion
Nicodemus answered and said to 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 wind bloweth where he listeth, and thou hearest his sound: but canst not tell whence he cometh and whither he goeth. So is every man that is born of the spirit." 9 And Nicodemus answered and said unto him, "How can these things be?" 10 Jesus answered and said unto him, "Art thou a master in Israel, and knowest not these things?
Cross References
John 6:52
And the Jews strove among themselves, saying, "How can this fellow give us his flesh to eat?"
John 6:60
Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, "This is a hard saying; Who can abide the hearing of it?"
Luke 1:34
Then said Mary unto the angel, "How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?"
Proverbs 4:18
The path of the righteous shineth as the light, and is ever brighter and brighter unto the perfect day.
Isaiah 42:16
I will bring the blind into the street, that they know not: and lead them in to a foot path, that they are ignorant in. I shall make darkness light before them, and the thing that is crooked to be straight. These things will I do, and not forget them.
Mark 8:24-25
And he looked up and said, "I see the men; For I see them walk as they were trees."
John 3:4
Nicodemus said unto him, "How can a man be born, when he is old? Can he enter into his mother's womb and be born again?"