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Holman Christian Standard Bible
14 But John tried to stop Him, saying, "I need to be baptized by You, and yet You come to me?"
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English Standard Version
14 John would have prevented him, saying, "I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?"
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King James Version
14 But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?
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The Message Bible
14 John objected, "I'm the one who needs to be baptized, not you!"
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New American Standard Bible
14 But John tried to prevent Him, saying, "I have need to be baptized by You, and do You come to me?"
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New International Version
14 But John tried to deter him, saying, “I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?”
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New King James Version
14 And John tried to prevent Him, saying, "I need to be baptized by You, and are You coming to me?"
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New Living Translation
14 But John tried to talk him out of it. “I am the one who needs to be baptized by you,” he said, “so why are you coming to me?”
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New Revised Standard
14 John would have prevented him, saying, "I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?"
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American Standard Version
14 But John would have hindered him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?
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The Bible in Basic English
14 But John would have kept him back, saying, It is I who have need of baptism from you, and do you come to me?
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Common English Bible
14 John tried to stop him and said, "I need to be baptized by you, yet you come to me?"
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Common English Bible w/ Apocrypha
14 John tried to stop him and said, "I need to be baptized by you, yet you come to me?"
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The Complete Jewish Bible
14 But Yochanan tried to stop him. "You are coming to me? I ought to be immersed by you!"
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The Darby Translation
14 but John urgently forbad him, saying, *I* have need to be baptised of thee; and comest *thou* to me?
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Good News Translation
14 But John tried to make him change his mind. "I ought to be baptized by you," John said, "and yet you have come to me!"
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Good News Translation w/ Apocrypha
14 But John tried to make him change his mind. "I ought to be baptized by you," John said, "and yet you have come to me!"
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GOD'S WORD Translation
14 But John tried to stop him and said, "I need to be baptized by you. Why are you coming to me?"
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Hebrew Names Version
14 But Yochanan would have hindered him, saying, "I need to be immersed by you, and you come to me?"
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Jubilee Bible 2000
14 But John resisted him much, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?
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King James Version w/ Apocrypha
14 But John forbad him, saying , I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?
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Lexham English Bible
14 But John tried to prevent him, saying, "{I need} to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?"
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New Century Version
14 But John tried to stop him, saying, "Why do you come to me to be baptized? I need to be baptized by you!"
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New International Reader's Version
14 But John tried to stop him. He told Jesus, "I need to be baptized by you. So why do you come to me?"
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New Revised Standard w/ Apocrypha
14 John would have prevented him, saying, "I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?"
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Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible
14 But John stayed him, saying: I ought to be baptized by thee, and comest thou to me?
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Revised Standard Version
14 John would have prevented him, saying, "I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?"
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Revised Standard Version w/ Apocrypha
14 John would have prevented him, saying, "I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?"
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SBL Greek New Testament
14 ὁ δὲ Ἰωάννης διεκώλυεν αὐτὸν λέγων · Ἐγὼ χρείαν ἔχω ὑπὸ σοῦ βαπτισθῆναι, καὶ σὺ ἔρχῃ πρός με;
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Third Millennium Bible
14 But John forbad Him, saying, "I have need to be baptized by Thee, and comest Thou to me?"
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Third Millennium Bible w/ Apocrypha
14 But John forbad Him, saying, "I have need to be baptized by Thee, and comest Thou to me?"
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Tyndale
14 But Ihon forbade hym saynge: I ought to be baptysed of the: and comest thou to me?
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The Latin Vulgate
14 Iohannes autem prohibebat eum dicens ego a te debeo baptizari et tu venis ad me
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14 Iohannes autem prohibebat eum dicens ego a te debeo baptizari et tu venis ad me
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The Webster Bible
14 But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized by thee, and comest thou to me?
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World English Bible
14 But John would have hindered him, saying, "I need to be baptized by you, and you come to me?"
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Weymouth New Testament
14 John protested. "It is I," he said, "who have need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?"
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Wycliffe
14 And John forbade him, and said, I owe to be baptized of thee, and thou comest to me? [Soothly John forbade him, saying, I owe to be christened of thee, and comest thou to me?]
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Young's Literal Translation
14 but John was forbidding him, saying, `I have need by thee to be baptized -- and thou dost come unto me!'
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