John 16:27

American Standard Version (1901)

for the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came forth from the Father.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Αὐτὸς γὰρ ὁ Πατὴρ φιλεῖ ὑμᾶς, ὅτι ὑμεῖς ἐμὲ πεφιλήκατε, καὶ πεπιστεύκατε ὅτι ἐγὼ παρὰ τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐξῆλθον.

Transliteration

Himself for the Patēr philei you, because you eme pephilēkate, and pepisteukate that I para the Theou exēlthon.

Grammar Details

• Αὐτὸς: intensive pronoun, nominative, masculine, singular - himself
• γὰρ: conjunction - for
• ὁ: definite article, nominative, masculine, singular - the
• *Patēr*: noun, nominative, masculine, singular - Father
• *philei*: present active indicative, 3rd person singular - loves
• ὑμᾶς: personal pronoun, accusative, plural - you
• ὅτι: conjunction - that
• ὑμεῖς: personal pronoun, nominative, plural - you (emphatic)
• *eme*: personal pronoun, accusative, singular - me (emphatic position)
• *pephilēkate*: perfect active indicative, 2nd person plural - you have loved
• καὶ: conjunction - and
• *pepisteukate*: perfect active indicative, 2nd person plural - you have believed
• ἐγὼ: personal pronoun, nominative, singular - I
• *para*: preposition - from beside
• τοῦ: definite article, genitive, masculine, singular - the
• *Theou*: noun, genitive, masculine, singular - God
• *exēlthon*: aorist active indicative, 1st person singular - I came forth

Word Meanings

• *Patēr*: Father
• *philei*: loves/has affection for (*phileō* - one of the Greek words for love, distinct from *agapaō*)
• *eme*: me (emphatic position)
• *pephilēkate*: you have loved/you have had affection for (perfect tense indicating completed action with continuing results)
• *pepisteukate*: you have believed/you have trusted (perfect tense indicating completed action with continuing results)
• *para*: from beside/from the presence of
• *Theou*: God
• *exēlthon*: I came forth/I came out/I departed

Referenced Verses

• John 14:21 : 21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself unto him.
• John 14:23 : 23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my word: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
• John 8:42 : 42 Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I came forth and am come from God; for neither have I come of myself, but he sent me.
• John 17:23 : 23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that thou didst send me, and lovedst them, even as thou lovedst me.
• John 21:15-17 : 15 So when they had broken their fast, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, [son] of John, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs. 16 He saith to him again a second time, Simon, [son] of John, lovest thou me? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Tend my sheep. 17 He saith unto him the third time, Simon, [son] of John, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep.
• 1 Cor 16:22 : 22 If any man loveth not the Lord, let him be anathema. Maranatha.
• 2 Cor 5:14 : 14 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that one died for all, therefore all died;
• John 17:25-26 : 25 O righteous Father, the world knew thee not, but I knew thee; and these knew that thou didst send me; 26 and I made known unto them thy name, and will make it known; that the love wherewith thou lovedst me may be in them, and I in them.
• Matt 10:37 : 37 He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
• John 16:30 : 30 Now know we that thou knowest all things, and needest not that any man should ask thee: by this we believe that thou camest forth from God.
• 1 Pet 1:8 : 8 whom not having seen ye love; on whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice greatly with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
• 1 John 4:19 : 19 We love, because he first loved us.
• Rev 3:9 : 9 Behold, I give of the synagogue of Satan, of them that say they are Jews, and they are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.
• Rev 3:19 : 19 As many as I love, I reprove and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
• Eph 6:24 : 24 Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ with [a love] incorruptible.
• 1 Tim 1:15 : 15 Faithful is the saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief:
• Heb 12:6 : 6 For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, And scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
• Gal 4:4 : 4 but when the fulness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
• Rom 8:3 : 3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
• 1 Cor 15:47 : 47 The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is of heaven.
• John 17:7-8 : 7 Now they know that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are from thee: 8 for the words which thou gavest me I have given unto them; and they received [them], and knew of a truth that I came forth from thee, and they believed that thou didst send me.
• John 7:29 : 29 I know him; because I am from him, and he sent me.
• Zeph 3:17 : 17 Jehovah thy God is in the midst of thee, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love; he will joy over thee with singing.
• Jude 1:20-21 : 20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, 21 keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.