Jesus said therefore to the twelve, “You don’t also want to go away, do you?”
Parallel translations
- KJV Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away?
- BSB So Jesus asked the Twelve, “Do you want to leave too?”
- ESV So Jesus said to the twelve, “Do you want to go away as well?”
- NKJV Then Jesus said to the twelve, “Do you also want to go away?”
- NASB So Jesus said to the twelve, “You do not want to leave also, do you?”
- NLT Then Jesus turned to the Twelve and asked, “Are you also going to leave?”
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- Ruth 1:11–18Naomi said, “Go back, my daughters. Why do you want to go with me? Do I still have sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?
- Luke 14:25–33Now great multitudes were going with him. He turned and said to them,
- John 6:70Jesus answered them, “Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and one of you is a devil?”
- Josh 24:15–22If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”
- 2 Sam 15:19–20Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, “Why do you also go with us? Return, and stay with the king; for you are a foreigner, and also an exile. Return to your own place.
- Matt 10:2Now the names of the twelve apostles are these. The first, Simon, who is called Peter; Andrew, his brother; James the son of Zebedee; John, his brother;
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