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The Mission of John the Baptist

Luke 3:10

In 9 translations

BSB
The crowds asked him, “What then should we do?”
KJV
And the people asked him, saying, What shall we do then?
WEB
The multitudes asked him, “What then must we do?”
ASV
And the multitudes asked him, saying, What then must we do?
LSV
And the multitudes were questioning him, saying, “What, then, will we do?”
YLT
And the multitudes were questioning him, saying, 'What, then, shall we do?'
DBY
And the crowds asked him saying, What should we do then?
DRC
And the people asked him, saying: What then shall we do?
GNV
Then the people asked him, saying, What shall we doe then?

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Where the editions differ

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  • NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles read ποιήσωμεν (“shall we do”); Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read ποιήσομεν (“we will do”).
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  • SBLGNT: ποιήσωμεν. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read ποιήσωμεν; Robinson–Pierpont read ποιήσομεν.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT
Καὶ ἐπηρώτων αὐτὸν οἱ ὄχλοι λέγοντες· Τί οὖν ποιήσωμεν;
RP2018
Καὶ ἐπηρώτων αὐτὸν οἱ ὄχλοι λέγοντες, Τί οὖν ποιήσομεν;
TR-Boyd
Καὶ ἐπηρώτων αὐτὸν οἱ ὄχλοι λέγοντες, Τί οὖν ποιήσομεν;
SCR1894
και επηρωτων αυτον οι οχλοι λεγοντες τι ουν ποιησομεν

Who and where

◆ John the Baptist Begins Ministry

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In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Acts 2:37When the people heard this, they were cut to the heart and asked Peter and the other apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”
  • Luke 3:14Then some soldiers asked him, “And what should we do?” “Do not take money by force or false accusation,” he said. “Be content with your wages.”
  • Acts 16:30Then he brought them out and asked, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”
  • Acts 9:6“Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”
  • Luke 3:12Even tax collectors came to be baptized. “Teacher,” they asked, “what should we do?”
  • Luke 3:8Produce fruit, then, in keeping with repentance. And do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.

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