John 9:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for he does not observe the Sabbath.” Others said, “How can a man who is a sinner perform such signs?” And they were divided.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ Therefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not of God, because he keepeth not the sabbath day. Others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ Then some of the Pharisees said, This Man [Jesus] is not from God, because He does not observe the Sabbath. But others said, How can a man who is a sinner (a bad man) do such signs and miracles? So there was a difference of opinion among them.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ Some therefore of the Pharisees said, This man is not from God, because he keepeth not the sabbath. But others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such signs? And there was a division among them.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Some Pharisees said, “This man isn’t from God, because he breaks the Sabbath law.” Others said, “How can a sinner do miraculous signs like these?” So they were divided.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ And so certain Pharisees said: "This man, who does not keep the Sabbath, is not from God." But others said, "How could a sinful man accomplish these signs?" And there was a schism among them.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ Some therefore of the Pharisees said: This man is not of God, who keepeth not the sabbath. But others said: How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them.

John 9:16 Cross References

Matthew 12:10

a man was there with a withered hand, and they asked him, “Is it lawful to cure on the Sabbath?” so that they might accuse him.

Matthew 12:2

When the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, “Look, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.”

Luke 13:14

But the leader of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had cured on the Sabbath, kept saying to the crowd, “There are six days on which work ought to be done; come on those days and be cured and not on the Sabbath day.”

John 10:19

Again the Jews were divided because of these words.

John 14:11

Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, but if you do not, then believe because of the works themselves.

John 15:24

If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not have sin. But now they have seen and hated both me and my Father.

John 2:11

Jesus did this, the first of his signs, in Cana of Galilee and revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him.

John 3:2

He came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with that person.”

John 5:10

So the Jews said to the man who had been cured, “It is the Sabbath; it is not lawful for you to carry your mat.”

John 5:36

But I have a testimony greater than John’s. The works that the Father has given me to complete, the very works that I am doing, testify on my behalf that the Father has sent me.

John 6:52

The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”

John 7:12

And there was considerable complaining about him among the crowds. While some were saying, “He is a good man,” others were saying, “No, he is deceiving the crowd.”

John 7:23

If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath in order that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because I healed a man’s whole body on the Sabbath?

John 7:43

So there was a division in the crowd because of him.

John 9:24

So for the second time they called the man who had been blind, and they said to him, “Give glory to God! We know that this man is a sinner.”

Acts 14:4

But the residents of the city were divided: some sided with the Jews, and some with the apostles.