Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

They said to him therefore, What sign do thou, that we may see and believe in thee? What do thou work?

New American Standard Bible

So they said to Him, “What then do You do for a sign, so that we may see, and believe You? What work do You perform?

King James Version

They said therefore unto him, What sign shewest thou then, that we may see, and believe thee? what dost thou work?

Holman Bible

“What sign then are You going to do so we may see and believe You?” they asked. “What are You going to perform?

International Standard Version

So they asked him, "What sign are you going to do so that we may see it and believe in you? What actions are you performing?

American Standard Version

They said therefore unto him, What then doest thou for a sign, that we may see, and believe thee? what workest thou?

Amplified

So they said to Him, “What sign (attesting miracle) will You do that we may see it and believe You? What [supernatural] work will You do [as proof]?

An Understandable Version

And they said to Him, "What kind of a [miraculous] sign will you perform so that we can see it and [then] believe [in] you? What [kind of] deed will you perform?

Anderson New Testament

Therefore, they said to him: "What sign do you show, then, that we may see, and believe you? What work do you perform?

Bible in Basic English

So they said, What sign do you give us, so that we may see and have faith in you? What do you do?

Common New Testament

So they said to him, "What sign will you perform then, that we may see it and believe you? What work will you do?

Daniel Mace New Testament

but said they, what miracle then will you let us see to make us believe you? what strange work will you perform?

Darby Translation

They said therefore to him, What sign then doest thou that we may see and believe thee? what dost thou work?

Godbey New Testament

Then they said to Him, Then what miracle do you perform, that we may see, and believe you, what you may do?

Goodspeed New Testament

Then they said to him, "Then what sign do you show for us to see and so come to believe you? What work are you doing?

John Wesley New Testament

They said therefore to him, What sign dost thou then, that we may see and believe thee? What dost thou work?

Julia Smith Translation

Then said they to him, What sign doest thou, that we might see, and believe thee? what workest thou?

King James 2000

They said therefore unto him, What sign do you show then, that we may see, and believe you? what do you work?

Lexham Expanded Bible

So they said to him, "Then what sign will you perform, so that we can see [it] and believe you? What will you do?

Modern King James verseion

Therefore they said to Him, What sign do you show then, so that we may see and believe you? What do you work?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

They said unto him, "What sign showest thou, then, that we may see and believe thee? What dost thou work?

Moffatt New Testament

"Well then," they said, "what is the Sign you perform, that we may see it and believe you? What work have you to show?

Montgomery New Testament

The they said to him. "What sign, then, are you performing, so that we may see it and believe in you? What work are you doing?

NET Bible

So they said to him, "Then what miraculous sign will you perform, so that we may see it and believe you? What will you do?

New Heart English Bible

They said therefore to him, "What then do you do for a sign, that we may see, and believe you? What work do you do?

Noyes New Testament

They said therefore to him, What sign doest thou, that we may see, and believe thee? What dost thou work?

Sawyer New Testament

Then they said to him, What miracle do you perform, that we may see and believe you? what work do you perform?

The Emphasized Bible

They said, therefore, unto him - What, then, art, thou, doing, by way of sign, that we may see, and believe in thee: what art thou working?

Thomas Haweis New Testament

Then said they to him, What miracle therefore dost thou, that we may see and believe thee? what dost thou work?

Twentieth Century New Testament

"What sign, then," they asked, "are you giving, which we may see, and so believe you? What is the work that you are doing?

Webster

They said therefore to him, What sign showest thou then, that we may see, and believe thee? what dost thou work?

Weymouth New Testament

"What miracle then," they asked, "do you perform for us to see and become believers in you? What do you *do*?

Williams New Testament

So they asked Him, "What wonder-work then are you going to perform for us to see and so believe in you? What work are you going to do?

World English Bible

They said therefore to him, "What then do you do for a sign, that we may see, and believe you? What work do you do?

Worrell New Testament

They said, therefore, to Him, "What sign doest Thou, then, that we may see, and believe Thee? What doest Thou?

Worsley New Testament

Therefore said they unto Him, What sign dost thou shew, that we may see it, and believe Thee? What work dost thou do?

Youngs Literal Translation

They said therefore to him, 'What sign, then, dost thou, that we may see and may believe thee? what dost thou work?

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ἔπω 
Epo 
say, speak, tell, command, bid, , vr say
Usage: 824

οὖν 
Oun 
therefore, then, so, and, now, wherefore, but, not tr,
Usage: 417


Usage: 0

τίς 
Tis 
Usage: 344

σημεῖον 
Semeion 
Usage: 56

ποιέω 
Poieo 
do, make, bring forth, commit, cause, work, show, bear, keep, fulfil, deal, perform, not tr, , vr do
Usage: 372

thou
σύ 
Su 
thou
Usage: 132

οὖν 
Oun 
therefore, then, so, and, now, wherefore, but, not tr,
Usage: 417

ἵνα 
Hina 
that, to,
Usage: 472

we may see
εἴδω 
Eido 
Usage: 519

and

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

πιστεύω 
Pisteuo 
Usage: 163

σοί 
Soi 
thee, thou, thy, thine own, not tr
Usage: 113

τίς 
Tis 
Usage: 344

References

Hastings

Context Readings

Discourse About The Bread Of Life

29 Jesus answered, and said to them, This is the work of God, that ye believe in that man whom he has sent. 30 They said to him therefore, What sign do thou, that we may see and believe in thee? What do thou work? 31 Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written, He gave them bread out of heaven to eat.

Cross References

Exodus 4:8

And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, nor hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.

1 Kings 13:3

And he gave a sign the same day, saying, This is the sign which LORD has spoken: Behold, the altar shall be rent, and the ashes that are upon it shall be poured out.

1 Kings 13:5

The altar also was rent, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of God had given by the word of LORD.

Isaiah 5:19

who say, Let him make speed, let him hasten his work, that we may see it. And let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come, that we may know it!

Isaiah 7:11-14

Ask thee a sign of LORD thy God, ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.

Matthew 12:38-39

Then some of the scholars and Pharisees answered, saying, Teacher, we want to see a sign from thee.

Matthew 16:1-4

And the Pharisees and Sadducees who came, testing, demanded him to exhibit to them a sign from the sky.

Mark 8:11

And the Pharisees came forth, and began to dispute with him, seeking from him a sign from the sky, testing him.

Mark 15:32

Let the Christ, the king of Israel, come down now from the cross, that we may see and believe in him. And those who were crucified with him reviled him.

Luke 11:29-30

And when the multitudes gathered together he began to say, This generation is evil. They seek a sign, and no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah, the prophet.

John 2:18

The Jews therefore answered, and said to him, What sign do thou show us since thou do these things?

John 4:8

For his disciples had gone away into the city so that they might buy food.

John 6:36

But also I said to you, that ye have seen me, and yet do not believe.

John 10:38

But if I am doing them, even though ye do not believe me, believe the works, that ye may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the him.

John 12:37

But although having done so many signs before them, they did not believe in him,

John 20:25-29

The other disciples therefore said to him, We have seen the Lord. But he said to them, Unless I may see the mark of the nails in his hands, and put my finger into the mark of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will, no, no

Acts 4:30

by thy stretching forth thy hand for healing, and signs and wonders to happen through the name of thy holy Boy Jesus.

1 Corinthians 1:22

And because Jews demand a sign and Greeks search for wisdom

Hebrews 2:4

God also testifying simultaneously by signs and wonders, and by various powers and distributions of Holy Spirit according to his will.

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