They brought him who had been blind to the Pharisees.
Parallel translations
- KJV They brought to the Pharisees him that aforetime was blind.
- BSB They brought to the Pharisees the man who had been blind.
- ESV They brought to the Pharisees the man who had formerly been blind.
- NKJV They brought him who formerly was blind to the Pharisees.
- NASB They *brought the man who was previously blind to the Pharisees.
- NLT Then they took the man who had been blind to the Pharisees,
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Cross-references · 5
- John 12:42Nevertheless even of the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they didn’t confess it, so that they wouldn’t be put out of the synagogue,
- John 11:57Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had commanded that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, that they might seize him.
- John 11:46–47But some of them went away to the Pharisees, and told them the things which Jesus had done.
- John 8:3–8The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman taken in adultery. Having set her in the middle,
- John 12:19The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, “See how you accomplish nothing. Behold, the world has gone after him.”
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