Mark 8:24
Modern Translations
New International Version
He looked up and said, "I see people; they look like trees walking around."

New Living Translation
The man looked around. “Yes,” he said, “I see people, but I can’t see them very clearly. They look like trees walking around.”

English Standard Version
And he looked up and said, “I see people, but they look like trees, walking.”

Berean Study Bible
The man looked up and said, “I can see the people, but they look like trees walking around.”

New American Standard Bible
And he looked up and said, “I see people, for I see them like trees, walking around.”

NASB 1995
And he looked up and said, "I see men, for I see them like trees, walking around."

NASB 1977
And he looked up and said, “I see men, for I am seeing them like trees, walking about.”

Amplified Bible
And he looked up and said, “I see people, but [they look] like trees, walking around.”

Christian Standard Bible
He looked up and said, “I see people—they look like trees walking.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He looked up and said, "I see people--they look to me like trees walking."

Contemporary English Version
The man looked up and said, "I see people, but they look like trees walking around."

Good News Translation
The man looked up and said, "Yes, I can see people, but they look like trees walking around."

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The man looked up and said, "I see people. They look like trees walking around."

International Standard Version
The man looked up and said, "I see people, but they look like trees walking around."

NET Bible
Regaining his sight he said, "I see people, but they look like trees walking."
Classic Translations
King James Bible
And he looked up, and said, I see men as trees, walking.

New King James Version
And he looked up and said, “I see men like trees, walking.”

King James 2000 Bible
And he looked up, and said, I see men as trees, walking.

New Heart English Bible
He looked up, and said, "I see people; they look like trees walking."

World English Bible
He looked up, and said, "I see men; for I see them like trees walking."

American King James Version
And he looked up, and said, I see men as trees, walking.

American Standard Version
And he looked up, and said, I see men; for I behold them as trees, walking.

A Faithful Version
And when he looked up, he said, "I see men as trees walking."

Darby Bible Translation
And having looked up, he said, I behold men, for I see [them], as trees, walking.

English Revised Version
And he looked up, and said, I see men; for I behold them as trees, walking.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he looked up, and said, I see men as trees walking.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
And he looked vp, and said, I see men: for I see them walking like trees.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
And he loked vp, & saide, I see men: for I perceiue the walke as they were trees.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
And he loked vp, and sayde: I se men goynge as yf I sawe trees.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
And he loked vp and sayde: I se ye men: For I se the walke as they were trees.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
and he, having looked up, said, “I behold men, as I see trees, walking.”

Berean Literal Bible
And having looked up, he was saying, "I see the men, for I see them as trees walking."

Young's Literal Translation
and he, having looked up, said, 'I behold men, as I see trees, walking.'

Smith's Literal Translation
And having looked up, he said, I see men that I see as trees, walking.

Literal Emphasis Translation
And having looked up he said. I see the men, for I see them walking like as trees.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
And looking up, he said: I see men as it were trees, walking.

Catholic Public Domain Version
And looking up, he said, “I see men but they are like walking trees.”

Translations from Aramaic
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
He gazed and he said, “I see people like trees that are walking.”

Lamsa Bible
And he looked and said, I see men like trees, walking.

NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
And he looked up and said: I see men, like trees, walking.

Godbey New Testament
And looking up he said, I see the men walking about like trees.

Haweis New Testament
And looking up, he said, I see men walking, as trees.

Mace New Testament
so looking up, he said, I see men; for by their walking I distinguish them from trees.

Weymouth New Testament
He looked up and said, "I can see the people: I see them like trees--only walking."

Worrell New Testament
And, looking up, he said, "I behold men, because I see them as trees walking."

Worsley New Testament
And he looked up, and said, I see men (as it were trees) walking.
















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