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Bible in Basic English

And Nicodemus said to him, How is it possible for these things to 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?

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?

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?'

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Νικόδημος 
Nikodemos 
Usage: 5

ἀποκρίνομαι 
Apokrinomai 
Usage: 231

and

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

ἔπω 
Epo 
say, speak, tell, command, bid, , vr say
Usage: 824


Usage: 0

How
πῶς 
Pos 
Usage: 65

can
δύναμαι 
Dunamai 
can , cannot , be able, may , able,
Usage: 140

ταῦτα 
Tauta 
Usage: 188

References

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Fausets

Hastings

Morish

Watsons

Context Readings

A Meeting With Nicodemus

8 The wind goes where its pleasure takes it, and the sound of it comes to your ears, but you are unable to say where it comes from and where it goes: so it is with everyone whose birth is from the Spirit. 9 And Nicodemus said to him, How is it possible for these things to be? 10 And Jesus, answering, said, Are you the teacher of Israel and have no knowledge of these things?


Cross References

John 6:52

Then the Jews had an angry discussion among themselves, saying, How is it possible for this man to give us his flesh for food?

John 6:60

Then, hearing this, a number of his disciples said, This is a hard saying; who is able to take in such teaching?

Luke 1:34

And Mary said to the angel, How may this be, because I have had no knowledge of a man?

Proverbs 4:18

But the way of the upright is like the light of early morning, getting brighter and brighter till the full day.

Isaiah 42:16

And I will take the blind by a way of which they had no knowledge, guiding them by roads strange to them: I will make the dark places light before them, and the rough places level. These things will I do and will not give them up.

Mark 8:24-25

And looking up, he said, I see men; I see them like trees, walking.

John 3:4

Nicodemus said to him, How is it possible for a man to be given birth when he is old? Is he able to go into his mother's body a second time and come to birth again?

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