John 3:34

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for he giveth not the Spirit by measure.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὃν γὰρ ἀπέστειλεν ὁ Θεός τὰ ῥήματα τοῦ Θεοῦ λαλεῖ: οὐ γὰρ ἐκ μέτρου δίδωσιν ὁ Θεὸς τὸ Πνεῦμα.

Transliteration

For whom apesteilen ho Theos ta rhēmata tou Theou lalei: for not ek metrou didōsin ho Theos to Pneuma.

Grammar Details

• *Hon*: relative pronoun, accusative, masculine, singular - whom
• *gar*: postpositive conjunction - for
• *apesteilen*: aorist, 3rd singular - sent
• *Theos*: nominative, masculine, singular - God
• *rhēmata*: accusative, neuter, plural - words/sayings
• *lalei*: present, 3rd singular - speaks
• *ek*: preposition + genitive - from/by
• *metrou*: genitive, neuter, singular - measure
• *didōsin*: present, 3rd singular - gives
• *Pneuma*: accusative, neuter, singular - Spirit

Word Meanings

• *apesteilen*: sent/commissioned/dispatched
• *rhēmata*: words/sayings/utterances
• *ek metrou*: by measure/with limitation
• *Pneuma*: Spirit/spirit

Referenced Verses

• John 3:17 : 17 For God sent not the Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world should be saved through him.
• Rom 8:2 : 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
• John 5:26 : 26 For as the Father hath life in himself, even so gave he to the Son also to have life in himself:
• Luke 4:18 : 18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, Because he anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor: He hath sent me to proclaim release to the captives, And recovering of sight to the blind, To set at liberty them that are bruised,
• Acts 10:38 : 38 [ even] Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed him with the Holy Spirit and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.
• John 1:16 : 16 For of his fulness {G2983} we all received, and grace for grace.
• Num 11:25 : 25 And Jehovah came down in the cloud, and spake unto him, and took of the Spirit that was upon him, and put it upon the seventy elders: and it came to pass, that, when the Spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, but they did so no more.
• 2 Kgs 2:9 : 9 And it came to pass, when they were gone over, that Elijah said unto Elisha, Ask what I shall do for thee, before I am taken from thee. And Elisha said, I pray thee, let a double portion of thy spirit be upon me.
• Ps 45:7 : 7 Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated wickedness: Therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee With the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
• Isa 11:2-5 : 2 And the Spirit of Jehovah shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of Jehovah. 3 And his delight shall be in the fear of Jehovah; and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither decide after the hearing of his ears; 4 but with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth; and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked. 5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his waist, and faithfulness the girdle of his loins.
• Isa 59:21 : 21 And as for me, this is my covenant with them, saith Jehovah: my Spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith Jehovah, from henceforth and for ever.
• Isa 62:1-3 : 1 For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until her righteousness go forth as brightness, and her salvation as a lamp that burneth. 2 And the nations shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory, and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of Jehovah shall name. 3 Thou shalt also be a crown of beauty in the hand of Jehovah, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.
• Matt 12:18 : 18 Behold, my servant whom I have chosen; My beloved in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my Spirit upon him, And he shall declare judgment to the Gentiles.
• John 7:16 : 16 Jesus therefore answered them and said, My teaching is not mine, but his that sent me.
• John 7:37-39 : 37 Now on the last day, the great [day] of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink. 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 8:26-28 : 26 I have many things to speak and to judge concerning you: howbeit he that sent me is true; and the things which I heard from him, these speak I unto the world. 27 They perceived not that he spake to them of the Father. 28 Jesus therefore said, When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am [he], and [that] I do nothing of myself, but as the Father taught me, I speak these things.
• John 8:40 : 40 But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I heard from God: this did not Abraham.
• John 8:47 : 47 He that is of God heareth the words of God: for this cause ye hear [them] not, because ye are not of God.
• 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 16:7 : 7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is expedient for you that I go away; for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I go, I will send him unto you.
• Eph 3:8 : 8 Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, was this grace given, to preach unto the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;
• Eph 4:7-9 : 7 But unto each one of us was the grace given according to the measure of the gift of Christ. 8 Wherefore he saith, When he ascended on high, he led captivity captive, And gave gifts unto men. 9 (Now this, He ascended, what is it {G1487} but that he also descended into the lower parts of the earth? 10 He that descended is the same also that ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.) 11 And he gave some [to be] apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; 12 for the perfecting of the saints, unto the work of ministering, unto the building up of the body of Christ: 13 till we all attain unto the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a fullgrown man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
• Col 1:19 : 19 For it was the good pleasure [of the Father] that in him should all the fulness dwell;
• Col 2:9 : 9 for in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily,
• Rev 21:6 : 6 And he said unto me, They are come to pass. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.
• Rev 22:1 : 1 And he showed me a {G2513} river of water of life, bright as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb,
• Rev 22:16-17 : 16 I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things for the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, the bright, the morning star. 17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And he that heareth, let him say, Come. And he that is athirst, let him come: {G2532} he that will, let him take the water of life freely.