John 3:9 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

Then Nicodemus asked Jesus, “How can these things happen?”

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Nicodemus answered by asking, How can all this be possible?

American Standard Version (1901)

Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?

Common English Bible

Nicodemus said, “How are these things possible?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

Nicodemus responded and said to him, "How are these things able to be accomplished?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Nicodemus answered, and said to him: How can these things be done?

John 3:9 Cross References

Luke 1:34

And Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I have never had sex with a man?”

John 3:10

Jesus answered him, “Are you a teacher of the Israelites and [yet] you do not understand these things?

John 3:4

Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born [again] after he is [already] old? He cannot enter his mother’s womb a second time and be born, can he?”

John 3:8

The wind blows wherever it wants to, and you can hear the sound of it, without knowing where it came from or where it is going. So it is with everyone who is born from the Holy Spirit.”

John 6:52

Then the Jews [who were assembled in the synagogue. See verse 59] began arguing bitterly with one another, saying, “How can this man give us his physical body to eat?”

John 6:60

So, when they heard [these things], many of Jesus’ disciples said, “This is difficult teaching. Who can listen to it [i.e., and accept it]?”