The disciples looked at one another, perplexed about whom he spoke.
Parallel translations
- KJV Then the disciples looked one on another, doubting of whom he spake.
- BSB The disciples looked at one another, perplexed as to which of them He meant.
- ESV The disciples looked at one another, uncertain of whom he spoke.
- NKJV Then the disciples looked at one another, perplexed about whom He spoke.
- NASB The disciples began looking at one another, at a loss to know of which one He was speaking.
- NLT The disciples looked at each other, wondering whom he could mean.
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- Luke 22:23They began to question among themselves, which of them it was who would do this thing.
- Mark 14:19They began to be sorrowful, and to ask him one by one, “Surely not I?” And another said, “Surely not I?”
- Matt 26:22They were exceedingly sorrowful, and each began to ask him, “It isn’t me, is it, Lord?”
- Gen 42:1Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, “Why do you look at one another?”
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