Parallel Verses
An Understandable Version
But many people in the crowd believed in Him, saying, "When the Messiah does come, will he perform more [miraculous] signs than this man has done?"
New American Standard Bible
But
King James Version
And many of the people believed on him, and said, When Christ cometh, will he do more miracles than these which this man hath done?
Holman Bible
However, many from the crowd believed in Him and said, “When the Messiah comes, He won’t perform more signs than this man has done,
International Standard Version
However, many in the crowd believed in him. They kept saying, "When the Messiah comes, he won't do more signs than this man has done, will he?"
A Conservative Version
But many from the crowd believed in him, and they said, When the Christ comes, will he do more signs than these that this man did?
American Standard Version
But of the multitude many believed on him; and they said, When the Christ shall come, will he do more signs than those which this man hath done?
Amplified
But many from the crowd believed in Him. And they kept saying, “When the Christ comes, will He do more signs and exhibit more proofs than this Man?”
Anderson New Testament
And many of the multitude believed on him, and said: When the Christ comes, will he do more signs than these which this man has done?
Bible in Basic English
And numbers of the people had belief in him, and they said, When the Christ comes will he do more signs than this man has done?
Common New Testament
And many of the people believed in him, and they said, "When the Christ comes, will he do more signs than this man has done?"
Daniel Mace New Testament
besides many of the people believed on him, and said, when Christ comes, will he do more miracles than this man hath done?
Darby Translation
But many of the crowd believed on him, and said, Will the Christ, when he comes, do more signs than those which this man has done?
Godbey New Testament
And many from the multitude believed on Him; and continued to say, When Christ may come, will He do more miracles than this one is doing?
Goodspeed New Testament
But many of the people believed in him, and said, "Will the Christ show more signs when he comes than this man has shown?"
John Wesley New Testament
And many of the people believed on him, and said, When Christ cometh, will he do more miracles than these which this man hath done?
Julia Smith Translation
And many of the crowd believed on him, and said, That Christ, when he should come, will he do more signs than these which he did?
King James 2000
And many of the people believed on him, and said, When Christ comes, will he do more miracles than these which this man has done?
Lexham Expanded Bible
But from the crowd many believed in him and were saying, "Whenever the Christ comes, he will not perform more signs than this man has done, [will he]?"
Modern King James verseion
And many of the crowd believed on Him, and said, When the Christ comes, will He do more miracles than these which this One has done?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Many of the people believed on him, and said, "When Christ cometh, will he do more miracles than this man hath done?"
Moffatt New Testament
Indeed many of the people believed in him, saying, "When the Christ does come, will he perform more Signs than this man?"
Montgomery New Testament
But many of the crowd believed on him and began to say, "The Christ, when he comes, will he do more signs than this man has done?"
NET Bible
Yet many of the crowd believed in him and said, "Whenever the Christ comes, he won't perform more miraculous signs than this man did, will he?"
New Heart English Bible
But many in the crowd believed in him. They said, "When the Messiah comes, he won't do more signs than those which this man has done, will he?"
Noyes New Testament
But of the multitude many believed in him, and said, When the Christ cometh, will he do more signs than these which this man doeth?
Sawyer New Testament
And many of the multitude believed on him, and said, When the Christ comes will he perform more miracles than this man has performed?
The Emphasized Bible
But, from amongst the multitude, many, believed on him, and were saying - The Christ, whensoever he cometh, greater signs, will he do, than those which, this one, did?
Thomas Haweis New Testament
But many of the multitude believed on him, and said, When the Messiah cometh, will he do greater miracles than those which this man doth?
Twentieth Century New Testament
Many of the people, however, believed in him. "When the Christ comes," they said, "will he give more signs of his mission than this man has given?"
Webster
And many of the people believed on him, and said, When Christ cometh, will he do more miracles than these which this man hath done?
Weymouth New Testament
But from among the crowd a large number believed in Him. "When the Christ comes," they said, "will He perform more miracles than this teacher has performed?"
Williams New Testament
But many of the crowd believed in Him, and said, "When the Christ comes, He will not perform greater wonder-works than He did, will He?"
World English Bible
But of the multitude, many believed in him. They said, "When the Christ comes, he won't do more signs than those which this man has done, will he?"
Worrell New Testament
But of the multitude many believed on Him, and said, "When the Christ shall come, will He do more signs than those which This Man did?"
Worsley New Testament
And many of the people believed on Him, and said, When the Messiah cometh, will He do more miracles than this man hath done?
Youngs Literal Translation
and many out of the multitude did believe in him, and said -- 'The Christ -- when he may come -- will he do more signs than these that this one did?'
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Word Count of 37 Translations in John 7:31
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Context Readings
Is Jesus The Christ?
30 Then they [i.e., the authorities] tried to arrest Jesus, but no one laid a hand on Him because His time had not yet come. 31 But many people in the crowd believed in Him, saying, "When the Messiah does come, will he perform more [miraculous] signs than this man has done?" 32 The Pharisees [i.e., a strict sect of the Jewish religion] heard the crowd whispering these things about Him, so the leading priests and Pharisees sent some Temple guards to arrest Him.
Cross References
John 12:42
However, even many [Jewish] leaders believed in Him, but did not admit it, for fear of being expelled from the synagogue.
Matthew 12:23
All the crowds of people were amazed and said, "Can this [Jesus] be the son of David?"
Matthew 11:3-6
and said to Jesus, "Are you the One who was to come, or should we look for someone else?"
Luke 8:13
And those people [represented by the seed falling] on rocky ground are those who, upon hearing the word [of God], accept it gladly, but since they have no root [system], they believe it for [only] awhile, and [then] in times of trial fall away [from God].
John 2:11
This was the beginning of Jesus' [miraculous] signs, which He performed in Cana in Galilee. [In doing this] He demonstrated His glorious power and His disciples believed in Him.
John 2:23-24
Now when Jesus was in Jerusalem at the Passover Festival, many people believed in His name [i.e., in Jesus Himself] when they saw the [miraculous] signs He was doing.
John 3:2
This man went to Jesus one night and said to Him, "Rabbi, we [i.e., speaking of himself and other Jewish leaders] know that you are a Teacher sent from God, for no one could perform these [miraculous] signs that you are doing unless God were with Him."
John 4:39
Then many Samaritans from Sychar believed in Jesus because of the testimony of the woman, who said, "He told me everything that I ever did."
John 6:2
And a large crowd followed Him because they had seen the [miraculous] signs He had performed on sick people.
John 6:14-15
So, when the people saw the [miraculous] sign that Jesus had performed [i.e., the feeding of the large crowd with such a small amount of food], they said, "Truly, this is the prophet who was to come into the world." [Note: This was probably a reference to the promise made in Deut. 18:15-19].
John 8:30-32
When He said these things, many people believed in Him.
John 9:16
Some of the Pharisees then said, "The man who did this is not from God, because he does not observe the Sabbath day. But other people said, "How could a man who is a sinner do such [miraculous] signs?" And the people were divided among themselves [over the issue].
John 10:41-42
Many people came to Him and were saying, "It is true that John did not perform any [miraculous] signs, but everything he said about this man was true."
John 11:45
When many of Mary's Jewish friends, who had come to console her, saw what Jesus had done, they believed in Him.
John 12:11
for because of him [i.e., his miraculous resurrection], many of the Jews rejected the priests' leadership and believed in Jesus.
Acts 8:13
And [this] Simon also believed [Philip's message] and was immersed. [After that] he continued [to travel] with Philip and was amazed by the [supernatural] signs and great miracles he saw [him perform].
James 2:26
For as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without [good] deeds is dead.