John 10:24
Good News Translation
when the people gathered around him and asked, "How long are you going to keep us in suspense? Tell us the plain truth: are you the Messiah?"

New Revised Standard Version
So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly.”

Contemporary English Version
and the people gathered all around him. They said, "How long are you going to keep us guessing? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly!"

New American Bible
So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, “How long are you going to keep us in suspense? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
The Jews therefore came round about him and said to him: How long dost thou hold our souls in suspense? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The Jews therefore came round about him and said to him: How long dost thou hold our souls in suspense? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly.

How.

1 Kings 18:21 And Elias coming to all the people, said: How long do you halt between two sides? If the Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people did not answer him a word.

Matthew 11:3 Art thou he that art to come, or look we for another?

Luke 3:15 And as the people were of opinion, and all were thinking in their hearts of John, that perhaps he might be the Christ:

make us to doubt.

John 1:19 And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent from Jerusalem priests and Levites to him, to ask him: Who art thou?

John 8:25,53 They said therefore to him: Who art thou? Jesus said to them: The beginning, who also speak unto you. . . .

John 9:22 These things his parents said, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had already agreed among themselves that if any man should confess him to be Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.

Luke 22:67-70 And he saith to them: If I shall tell you, you will not believe me. . . .

2 Corinthians 3:12 Having therefore such hope, we use much confidence.

Context
The Unbelief of the Jews
23And Jesus walked in the temple, in Solomon's porch. 24The Jews therefore came round about him and said to him: How long dost thou hold our souls in suspense? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly. 25Jesus answered them: I speak to you, and you believe not: the works that I do in the name of my Father, they give testimony of me.…
Cross References
Mark 8:32
And he spoke the word openly. And Peter taking him began to rebuke him.

Luke 22:67
And he saith to them: If I shall tell you, you will not believe me.

John 1:19
And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent from Jerusalem priests and Levites to him, to ask him: Who art thou?

John 10:31
The Jews then took up stones to stone him.

John 10:33
The Jews answered him: For a good work we stone thee not, but for blasphemy: and because that thou. being a, man, makest thyself God.

John 16:25
These things I have spoken to you in proverbs. The hour cometh when I will no longer speak to you in proverbs, but will shew you plainly of the Father.

John 10:23
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