Parallel Verses

NET Bible

Nicodemus replied, "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?

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.

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

American

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Morish

Watsons

Context Readings

A Meeting With Nicodemus

8 The wind blows wherever it will, and you hear the sound it makes, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit." 9 Nicodemus replied, "How can these things be?" 10 Jesus answered, "Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you don't understand these things?


Cross References

John 6:52

Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus began to argue with one another, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"

John 6:60

Then many of his disciples, when they heard these things, said, "This is a difficult saying! Who can understand it?"

Luke 1:34

Mary said to the angel, "How will this be, since I have not had sexual relations with a man?"

Proverbs 4:18

But the path of the righteous is like the bright morning light, growing brighter and brighter until full day.

Isaiah 42:16

I will lead the blind along an unfamiliar way; I will guide them down paths they have never traveled. I will turn the darkness in front of them into light, and level out the rough ground. This is what I will do for them. I will not abandon them.

Mark 8:24-25

Regaining his sight he said, "I see people, but they look like trees walking."

John 3:4

Nicodemus said to him, "How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter his mother's womb and be born a second time, can he?"

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