John 7:51 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵¹ “Our law does not judge people without first giving them a hearing to find out what they are doing, does it?”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵¹ Doth our law judge any man, before it hear him, and know what he doeth?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵¹ Does our Law convict a man without giving him a hearing and finding out what he has done?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵¹ Doth our law judge a man, except it first hear from himself and know what he doeth?

Common English Bible

⁵¹ “Our Law doesn’t judge someone without first hearing him and learning what he is doing, does it?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵¹ "Does our law judge a man, unless it has first heard him and has known what he has done?"

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵¹ Doth our law judge any man, unless it first hear him, and know what he doth?

John 7:51 Cross References

Exodus 23:1

“You shall not spread a false report. You shall not join hands with the wicked to act as a malicious witness.

Proverbs 18:13

If one gives answer before hearing, it is folly and shame.

Numbers 35:30

“If anyone kills another, the murderer shall be put to death on the evidence of witnesses, but no one shall be put to death on the testimony of a single witness.

Acts 23:3

At this Paul said to him, “God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! Are you sitting there to judge me according to the law, and yet in violation of the law you order me to be struck?”

Deuteronomy 1:17

You must not be partial in judging: hear out the small and the great alike; you shall not be intimidated by anyone, for the judgment is God’s. Any case that is too hard for you, bring to me, and I will hear it.’

Deuteronomy 17:6

On the evidence of two or three witnesses the death sentence shall be executed; a person must not be put to death on the evidence of only one witness.