John 2:18

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

the Jews then answered and said to him, `What sign dost thou shew to us -- that thou dost these things?'

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  • John 6:30 : 30 They said therefore to him, `What sign, then, dost thou, that we may see and may believe thee? what dost thou work?
  • Acts 4:7 : 7 and having set them in the midst, they were inquiring, `In what power, or in what name did ye do this?'
  • Acts 5:28 : 28 saying, `Did not we strictly command you not to teach in this name? and lo, ye have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and ye intend to bring upon us the blood of this man.'
  • Matt 12:38-42 : 38 Then answered certain of the scribes and Pharisees, saying, `Teacher, we will to see a sign from thee.' 39 And he answering said to them, `A generation, evil and adulterous, doth seek a sign, and a sign shall not be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet; 40 for, as Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights, so shall the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights. 41 `Men of Nineveh shall stand up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it, for they reformed at the proclamation of Jonah, and lo, a greater than Jonah here! 42 `A queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and lo, a greater than Solomon here!
  • Matt 16:1-4 : 1 And the Pharisees and Sadducees having come, tempting, did question him, to shew to them a sign from the heaven, 2 and he answering said to them, `Evening having come, ye say, Fair weather, for the heaven is red, 3 and at morning, Foul weather to-day, for the heaven is red -- gloomy; hypocrites, the face of the heavens indeed ye do know to discern, but the signs of the times ye are not able! 4 `A generation evil and adulterous doth seek a sign, and a sign shall not be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet;' and having left them he went away.
  • Matt 21:23 : 23 And he having come to the temple, there came to him when teaching the chief priests and the elders of the people, saying, `By what authority dost thou do these things? and who gave thee this authority?'
  • Mark 8:11 : 11 and the Pharisees came forth, and began to dispute with him, seeking from him a sign from the heaven, tempting him;
  • Mark 11:27-28 : 27 And they come again to Jerusalem, and in the temple, as he is walking, there come unto him the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders, 28 and they say to him, `By what authority dost thou these things? and who gave thee this authority that these things thou mayest do?'
  • Luke 11:29 : 29 And the multitudes crowding together upon him, he began to say, `This generation is evil, a sign it doth seek after, and a sign shall not be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet,
  • Luke 20:1-2 : 1 And it came to pass, on one of those days, as he is teaching the people in the temple, and proclaiming good news, the chief priests and the scribes, with the elders, came upon `him', 2 and spake unto him, saying, `Tell us by what authority thou dost these things? or who is he that gave to thee this authority?'
  • John 1:25 : 25 and they questioned him and said to him, `Why, then, dost thou baptize, if thou art not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?'

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  • John 2:19-21
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    19Jesus answered and said to them, `Destroy this sanctuary, and in three days I will raise it up.'

    20The Jews, therefore, said, `Forty and six years was this sanctuary building, and wilt thou in three days raise it up?'

    21but he spake concerning the sanctuary of his body;

  • 30They said therefore to him, `What sign, then, dost thou, that we may see and may believe thee? what dost thou work?

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    38Then answered certain of the scribes and Pharisees, saying, `Teacher, we will to see a sign from thee.'

    39And he answering said to them, `A generation, evil and adulterous, doth seek a sign, and a sign shall not be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet;

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    31Therefore, again, did the Jews take up stones that they may stone him;

    32Jesus answered them, `Many good works did I shew you from my Father; because of which work of them do ye stone me?'

    33The Jews answered him, saying, `For a good work we do not stone thee, but for evil speaking, and because thou, being a man, dost make thyself God.'

  • 24the Jews, therefore, came round about him, and said to him, `Till when our soul dost thou hold in suspense? if thou art the Christ, tell us freely.'

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    28and they say to him, `By what authority dost thou these things? and who gave thee this authority that these things thou mayest do?'

    29And Jesus answering said to them, `I will question you -- I also -- one word; and answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things;

  • Luke 20:2-3
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    2and spake unto him, saying, `Tell us by what authority thou dost these things? or who is he that gave to thee this authority?'

    3And he answering said unto them, `I will question you -- I also -- one thing, and tell me:

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    34Jesus answered him, `From thyself dost thou say this? or did others say it to thee about me?'

    35Pilate answered, `Am I a Jew? thy nation, and the chief priests did deliver thee up to me; what didst thou?'

  • 48The Jews, therefore, answered and said to him, `Do we not say well, that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a demon?'

  • John 2:16-17
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    16and to those selling the doves he said, `Take these things hence; make not the house of my Father a house of merchandise.'

    17And his disciples remembered that it is written, `The zeal of Thy house did eat me up;'

  • 57The Jews, therefore, said unto him, `Thou art not yet fifty years old, and Abraham hast thou seen?'

  • 52The Jews, therefore, said to him, `Now we have known that thou hast a demon; Abraham did die, and the prophets, and thou dost say, If any one may keep my word, he shall not taste of death -- to the age!

  • 8the disciples say to him, `Rabbi, now were the Jews seeking to stone thee, and again thou dost go thither!'

  • 28They said therefore unto him, `What may we do that we may work the works of God?'

  • 58`We heard him saying -- I will throw down this sanctuary made with hands, and by three days, another made without hands I will build;'

  • 61said, `This one said, I am able to throw down the sanctuary of God, and after three days to build it.'

  • 11the Jews, therefore, were seeking him, in the feast, and said, `Where is that one?'

  • 47the chief priests, therefore, and the Pharisees, gathered together a sanhedrim, and said, `What may we do? because this man doth many signs?

  • 18because of this also did the multitude meet him, because they heard of his having done this sign,

  • 36The Jews, therefore, said, `Lo, how he was loving him!'

  • 52The Jews, therefore, were striving with one another, saying, `How is this one able to give us `his' flesh to eat?'

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    23And he having come to the temple, there came to him when teaching the chief priests and the elders of the people, saying, `By what authority dost thou do these things? and who gave thee this authority?'

    24And Jesus answering said to them, `I will ask you -- I also -- one word, which if ye may tell me, I also will tell you by what authority I do these things;

  • 20The multitude answered and said, `Thou hast a demon, who doth seek to kill thee?'

  • 16and because of this were the Jews persecuting Jesus, and seeking to kill him, because these things he was doing on a sabbath.

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    20Jesus answered him, `I spake freely to the world, I did always teach in a synagogue, and in the temple, where the Jews do always come together; and in secret I spake nothing;

    21why me dost thou question? question those having heard what I spake to them; lo, these have known what I said.'

  • 19Therefore, again, there came a division among the Jews, because of these words,

  • 4And Jesus answering said to them, `Having gone, declare to John the things that ye hear and see,

  • 26And they said to him again, `What did he to thee? how did he open thine eyes?'

  • 10Jesus answered and said to him, `Thou art the teacher of Israel -- and these things thou dost not know!

  • 30The man answered and said to them, `Why, in this is a wonderful thing, that ye have not known whence he is, and he opened my eyes!

  • 15and the Jews were wondering, saying, `How hath this one known letters -- not having learned?'

  • 29And those passing by were speaking evil of him, shaking their heads, and saying, `Ah, the thrower down of the sanctuary, and in three days the builder!

  • 11from the Lord was this, and it is wonderful in our eyes.'

  • 13And the passover of the Jews was nigh, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem,

  • 18And the disciples of John told him about all these things,

  • 7Again, therefore, he questioned them, `Whom do ye seek?' and they said, `Jesus the Nazarene;'

  • 59they took up, therefore, stones that they may cast at him, but Jesus hid himself, and went forth out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.

  • 2and Jesus answering said to him, `Seest thou these great buildings? there may not be left a stone upon a stone, that may not be thrown down.'

  • 22The Jews, therefore, said, `Will he kill himself, because he saith, Whither I go away, ye are not able to come?'