"Do not forbid him," said Jesus, "for he who is not against you is on your side."

And Jesus said to him: "Do not prohibit him. For whoever is not against you, is for you."

"None of you must prevent him," Jesus said to John; "whoever's not against you is for you."

And Jesus said unto him, forbid him not,.... "Or forbid not" him, or any other so doing:
for he that is not against us, is for us: in two exemplars of Beza's it is read, "for he is not against you": the Vulgate Latin, and Syriac versions, instead of "us", in both clauses read "you", and so likewise the Persic and Ethiopic versions; See Gill on Mark 9:39, Mark 9:40.