John 16:3

American Standard Version (1901)

And these things will they do, because they have not known the Father, nor me.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ ταῦτα ποιήσουσιν ὑμῖν, ὅτι οὐκ ἔγνωσαν τὸν Πατέρα, οὐδὲ ἐμέ.

Transliteration

And tauta poiēsousin to you, because not egnōsan the Patera, neither me.

Grammar Details

• Καὶ: conjunction - and
• *tauta*: demonstrative pronoun, accusative, neuter, plural - these things
• *poiēsousin*: future active indicative, 3rd person plural - they will do
• ὑμῖν: personal pronoun, dative, plural - to you
• ὅτι: conjunction - because
• οὐκ: negative particle - not
• *egnōsan*: aorist active indicative, 3rd person plural - they knew/have known
• τὸν: definite article, accusative, masculine, singular - the
• *Patera*: noun, accusative, masculine, singular - Father
• οὐδὲ: negative conjunction - neither/nor
• ἐμέ: personal pronoun, accusative, singular - me

Word Meanings

• *tauta*: these things/these acts
• *poiēsousin*: they will do/they will perform
• *egnōsan*: they knew/they have known/they recognized

Referenced Verses

• John 15:21 : 21 But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.
• John 17:25 : 25 O righteous Father, the world knew thee not, but I knew thee; and these knew that thou didst send me;
• John 8:19 : 19 They said therefore unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye know neither me, nor my Father: if ye knew me, ye would know my Father also.
• John 8:55 : 55 and ye have not known him: but I know him; and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be like unto you, a liar: but I know him, and keep his word.
• 1 John 3:1 : 1 Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God; and [such] we are. For this cause the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
• 1 John 4:8 : 8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
• 1 John 5:20 : 20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, [even] in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
• Luke 10:22 : 22 All things have been delivered unto me of my Father: and no one knoweth who the Son is, save the Father; and who the Father is, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son willeth to reveal [him] .
• John 15:23 : 23 He that hateth me hateth my Father also.
• John 17:3 : 3 And this is life eternal, that they should know thee the only true God, and him whom thou didst send, [even] Jesus Christ.
• 1 Cor 2:8 : 8 which none of the rulers of this world hath known: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory:
• 2 Cor 4:3-6 : 3 And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled in them that perish: 4 in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn [upon them] . 5 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake. 6 Seeing it is God, that said, Light shall shine out of darkness, who shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
• 2 Thess 1:8 : 8 rendering vengeance to them that know not God, and to them that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus:
• 2 Thess 2:10-12 : 10 and with all deceit of unrighteousness for them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God sendeth them a working of error, that they should believe a lie: 12 that they all might be judged who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
• 1 Tim 1:13 : 13 though I was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: howbeit I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief;