John 13:35

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἐν τούτῳ γνώσονται πάντες ὅτι ἐμοὶ μαθηταί ἐστε, ἐὰν ἀγάπην ἔχητε ἐν ἀλλήλοις.

Transliteration

By this gnōsontai all that my mathētai you are, if agapēn you echēte among one another.

Grammar Details

• *gnōsontai*: future middle indicative, 3rd plural - they will know
• *mathētai*: nominative, masculine, plural - disciples
• *agapēn*: accusative, feminine, singular - love
• *echēte*: present active subjunctive, 2nd plural - you might have

Word Meanings

• *gnōsontai*: will know/will recognize/will understand
• *mathētai*: disciples/followers/students
• *agapēn*: love/divine love/selfless love
• *echēte*: have/possess/show

Referenced Verses

• 1 John 4:20-21 : 20 If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, {G4459} cannot love God whom he hath not seen. 21 And this commandment have we from him, that he who loveth God love his brother also.
• 1 John 3:10-14 : 10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother. 11 For this is the message which ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another: 12 not as Cain was of the evil one, and slew his brother. And wherefore {G5101} slew he him? Because his works were evil, and his brother's righteous. 13 Marvel not, {G3450} brethren, if the world hateth you. 14 We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not {G80} abideth in death.
• John 17:21 : 21 that they may all be one; even as thou, Father, [art] in me, and I in thee, that they also may be {G1520} in us: that the world may believe that thou didst send me.
• 1 John 2:5 : 5 but whoso {G302} keepeth his word, in him verily hath the love of God been perfected. Hereby we know that we are in him:
• 1 John 2:10 : 10 He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is no occasion of stumbling in him.
• Acts 5:12-14 : 12 And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people; and they were all with one accord in Solomon's porch. 13 But of the rest durst no man join himself to them: howbeit the people magnified them; 14 and believers were the more added to the Lord, multitudes both of men and women;
• Gen 13:7-8 : 7 And there was a strife between the herdsmen of Abram's cattle and the herdsmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelt then in the land. 8 And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen; for we are brethren.
• Acts 4:32-35 : 32 And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and {G5590} {G2532} soul: and not one [of] [them] said that aught of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common. 33 And with great power gave the apostles their witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all. 34 For neither was there among them any that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold, 35 and laid them at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made unto each, according as any one {G302} had need.