John 18:32
Modern Translations
New International Version
This took place to fulfill what Jesus had said about the kind of death he was going to die.

New Living Translation
(This fulfilled Jesus’ prediction about the way he would die.)

English Standard Version
This was to fulfill the word that Jesus had spoken to show by what kind of death he was going to die.

Berean Study Bible
This was to fulfill the word that Jesus had spoken to indicate the kind of death He was going to die.

New American Standard Bible
This happened so that the word of Jesus which He said, indicating what kind of death He was going to die, would be fulfilled.

NASB 1995
to fulfill the word of Jesus which He spoke, signifying by what kind of death He was about to die.

NASB 1977
that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which He spoke, signifying by what kind of death He was about to die.

Amplified Bible
This was to fulfill the word which Jesus had spoken to indicate by what manner of death He was going to die.

Christian Standard Bible
They said this so that Jesus’s words might be fulfilled indicating what kind of death he was going to die.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They said this so that Jesus' words might be fulfilled signifying what kind of death He was going to die.

Contemporary English Version
And so what Jesus said about his death would soon come true.

Good News Translation
This happened in order to make come true what Jesus had said when he indicated the kind of death he would die.)

GOD'S WORD® Translation
In this way what Jesus had predicted about how he would die came true.

International Standard Version
This was to fulfill what Jesus had said when he indicated the kind of death he was to die.

NET Bible
(This happened to fulfill the word Jesus had spoken when he indicated what kind of death he was going to die.)
Classic Translations
King James Bible
That the saying of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spake, signifying what death he should die.

New King James Version
that the saying of Jesus might be fulfilled which He spoke, signifying by what death He would die.

King James 2000 Bible
That the saying of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spoke, signifying what death he should die.

New Heart English Bible
that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spoke, signifying by what kind of death he should die.

World English Bible
that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spoke, signifying by what kind of death he should die.

American King James Version
That the saying of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spoke, signifying what death he should die.

American Standard Version
that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spake, signifying by what manner of death he should die.

A Faithful Version
So that the saying of Jesus might be fulfilled, which He had spoken to signify by what death He was about to die.

Darby Bible Translation
that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled which he spoke, signifying what death he should die.

English Revised Version
that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spake, signifying by what manner of death he should die.

Webster's Bible Translation
That the saying of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spoke, signifying what death he should die.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
It was that the worde of Iesus might be fulfilled which he spake, signifying what death he should die.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
That the wordes of Iesus myght be fulfylled, whiche he spake, signifiyng what death he shoulde dye.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
That ye worde of Iesus might be fulfilled, which he spake, whan he signified, what death he shulde dye.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
That ye wordes of Iesus myght be fulfilled which he spake signifyinge what deeth he shuld dye.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled which He said, signifying by what death He was about to die.

Berean Literal Bible
that word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which He had spoken signifying what death He was about to die.

Young's Literal Translation
that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled which he said, signifying by what death he was about to die.

Smith's Literal Translation
That the word of Jesus might be completed which he spake, giving a sign by what death he was about to die.

Literal Emphasis Translation
So that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled that He had spoken signifying what death He was about to die.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
That the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he said, signifying what death he should die.

Catholic Public Domain Version
This was so that the word of Jesus would be fulfilled, which he spoke signifying what kind of death he would die.

Translations from Aramaic
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
So that the saying may be fulfilled that Yeshua spoke when he revealed by what death he was going to die.

Lamsa Bible
So that the word which Jesus had said might be fulfilled, when he signified by what kind of death he was to die.

NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spoke, signifying by what death he was about to die.

Godbey New Testament
In order that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled, which He spoke, signifying by what death He was about to die.

Haweis New Testament
that the saying of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spake, intimating by what manner of death he should die.

Mace New Testament
so that what Jesus had said, to signify the death he should die, was actually accomplished.

Weymouth New Testament
They said this that the words might be fulfilled in which Jesus predicted the kind of death He was to die.

Worrell New Testament
that the word of Jesus might he fulfilled, which He spake, signifying by what manner of death He was about to die.

Worsley New Testament
that what Jesus had said might be fulfilled, signifying by what death He should die.
















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