1 John 5:6

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

This is he that came by water and blood, [even] Jesus Christ; not with the water only, but with the water and with the blood.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ ἐλθὼν διʼ ὕδατος καὶ αἵματος, Ἰησοῦς ὁ Χριστός· οὐκ ἐν τῷ ὕδατι μόνον, ἀλλʼ ἐν τῷ ὕδατι καὶ τῷ αἵματι. Καὶ τὸ Πνεῦμά ἐστιν τὸ μαρτυροῦν, ὅτι τὸ Πνεῦμά ἐστιν ἡ ἀλήθεια.

Transliteration

This estin the having elthōn through hudatos and haimatos, Iēsous the Christos; not in the hudati only, but in the hudati and the haimati. And the Pneuma estin the marturoun, because the Pneuma estin the alētheia.

Grammar Details

• *houtos*: demonstrative pronoun, nominative, masculine, singular - this one
• *estin*: present indicative, 3rd singular - is
• *elthōn*: aorist active participle, nominative, masculine, singular - having come
• *dia*: preposition with genitive - through
• *hudatos*: genitive, neuter, singular - of water
• *haimatos*: genitive, neuter, singular - of blood
• *Iēsous*: nominative, masculine, singular - Jesus
• *Christos*: nominative, masculine, singular - Christ/Anointed One
• *ouk*: negative particle - not
• *en*: preposition with dative - in
• *hudati*: dative, neuter, singular - water
• *monon*: adverb - only/merely
• *alla*: adversative conjunction - but
• *Pneuma*: nominative, neuter, singular - Spirit
• *marturoun*: present active participle, nominative, neuter, singular - witnessing/testifying
• *hoti*: conjunction - because/for/that
• *alētheia*: nominative, feminine, singular - truth

Word Meanings

• *elthōn*: having come/having arrived/having appeared
• *hudatos*: water/fluid
• *haimatos*: blood/bloodshed
• *Christos*: Christ/Anointed One/Messiah
• *Pneuma*: Spirit/breath/wind
• *marturoun*: witnessing/testifying/giving evidence
• *alētheia*: truth/reality/genuineness

Referenced Verses

• John 15:26 : 26 But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, [even] the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall bear witness of me:
• John 16:13 : 13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he shall guide you into all the truth: for he shall not speak from himself; but what things soever he shall hear, [these] shall he speak: and he shall declare unto you the things that are to come.
• John 14:17 : 17 [ even] the Spirit of truth: whom the world cannot {G3756} receive; for it beholdeth him not, neither knoweth him: {G1161} ye know him; for he abideth with you, and shall be in you.
• Rev 7:14 : 14 And I say unto him, My lord, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they that come out of the great tribulation, and they washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
• Eph 5:25-27 : 25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it; 26 that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word, 27 that he might present the church to himself a glorious [church], not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
• Col 1:4 : 4 having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have toward all the saints,
• 1 Tim 3:16 : 16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness; He who was manifested in the flesh, Justified in the spirit, Seen of angels, Preached among the nations, Believed on in the world, Received up in glory.
• Titus 3:5 : 5 not by works [done] in righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit,
• Heb 9:7 : 7 but into the second the high priest alone, once in the year, not without blood, which he offereth for himself, and for the errors of the people:
• Heb 9:14 : 14 how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish unto God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
• Heb 10:29 : 29 of how much sorer punishment, think ye, shall he be judged worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant wherewith {G1722} he was sanctified an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
• Heb 12:24 : 24 and to Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaketh better than [that of] Abel.
• Heb 13:20 : 20 Now the God of peace, who brought again from the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of an eternal covenant, [even] our Lord Jesus,
• 1 Pet 1:2 : 2 according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.
• 1 Pet 3:21 : 21 which also after a true likeness doth now save you, [even] baptism, not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the interrogation of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ;
• 1 John 1:7 : 7 but if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus {G5547} his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
• 1 John 4:10 : 10 Herein {G5129} is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins.
• 1 John 5:7-8 : 7 And it is {G5140} the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is the truth. 8 For there are three who bear witness, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and the three agree in one.
• Rev 1:5 : 5 and from Jesus Christ, [who is] the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loveth us, and loosed us from our sins by his blood;
• Rev 5:9 : 9 And they sing a new song, saying, Worthy art thou to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou was slain, and didst purchase unto God with thy blood [men] of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation,
• John 19:34-35 : 34 howbeit one of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side, and straightway there came out blood and water. 35 And he that hath seen hath borne witness, and his witness is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye also may believe.
• Acts 8:36 : 36 And as they went on the way, they came unto a certain water; and the eunuch saith, Behold, [here is] water; what doth hinder me to be baptized?
• Rom 3:25 : 25 whom God set forth [to be] a propitiation, through faith, in his blood, to show his righteousness because of the passing over of the sins done aforetime, in the forbearance of God;
• Eph 1:7 : 7 in whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,
• Lev 17:11 : 11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh atonement by reason of the life.
• Isa 45:3-4 : 3 and I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that it is I, Jehovah, who call thee by thy name, even the God of Israel. 4 For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel my chosen, I have called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.
• Ezek 36:25 : 25 And I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.
• Zech 9:11 : 11 As for thee also, because of the blood of thy covenant I have set free thy prisoners from the pit wherein is no water.
• Matt 26:28 : 28 for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many unto remission of sins.
• Mark 14:24 : 24 And he said unto them, This is my blood of the {G2537} covenant, which is poured out for many.
• Luke 22:20 : 20 And the cup in like manner after supper, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood, [even] that which is poured out for you.
• John 1:31-33 : 31 And I knew him not; but that he should be made manifest to Israel, for this cause {G2064} came I baptizing in water. 32 And John bare witness, saying, I have beheld the Spirit descending as a dove out of heaven; and it abode upon him. 33 And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize in water, he said unto me, Upon whomsoever thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and abiding upon him, the same is he that baptizeth in the Holy Spirit.
• John 3:5 : 5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except one be born of water and the Spirit, he cannot {G1410} enter into the kingdom of God!
• John 4:10 : 10 Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou {G302} wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given {G302} thee living water.
• John 4:14 : 14 but whosoever {G302} drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall become in him a well of water springing up unto eternal life.
• John 6:55 : 55 For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
• John 7:38-39 : 38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, from within him shall flow rivers of living water. 39 But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believed on him were to receive: for the {G40} Spirit was not yet [given]; because Jesus was not yet glorified.
• John 14:6 : 6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no one cometh unto the Father, but by me.