John 6:70

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Jesus answered them, Did not I choose you the twelve, and one of you is a devil?

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἀπεκρίθη αὐτοῖς ὁ Ἰησοῦς, Οὐκ ἐγὼ ὑμᾶς τοὺς δώδεκα ἐξελεξάμην, καὶ ἐξ ὑμῶν εἷς διάβολός ἐστιν;

Transliteration

Apekrithē to-them the Iēsous, Not egō you the twelve exelexamēn, and out-of you one diabolos estin?

Grammar Details

• *Apekrithē*: aorist passive, 3rd singular - answered/responded
• αὐτοῖς: dative, plural, masculine - to them
• *Iēsous*: nominative, masculine, singular - Jesus
• Οὐκ: negative particle - not
• *egō*: nominative, singular, 1st person pronoun - I
• ὑμᾶς: accusative, plural, 2nd person pronoun - you
• τοὺς δώδεκα: accusative, plural, masculine - the twelve
• *exelexamēn*: aorist middle, 1st singular - chose/selected
• καὶ: conjunction - and
• ἐξ: preposition + genitive - out of/from
• ὑμῶν: genitive, plural, 2nd person pronoun - of you
• εἷς: nominative, masculine, singular - one
• *diabolos*: nominative, masculine, singular - devil/slanderer
• *estin*: present, 3rd singular - is

Word Meanings

• *Apekrithē*: answered/responded/replied
• *exelexamēn*: chose/selected/picked out
• *diabolos*: devil/slanderer/accuser/adversary

Referenced Verses

• John 13:27 : 27 And after the sop, then entered Satan into him. Jesus therefore saith unto him, What thou doest, do quickly.
• John 17:12 : 12 While I was with them, {G1722} {G2889} I kept them in thy name which thou hast given me: and I guarded them, and not one of them perished, but {G3361} the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.
• John 13:2 : 2 And during supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's [son], to betray him,
• John 13:18 : 18 I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled: He that eateth {G3326} my bread lifted up his heel against me.
• John 6:64 : 64 But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who it was that should betray him.
• John 8:44 : 44 Ye are of [your] father the devil, and the lusts of your father it is your will to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and standeth not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.
• Matt 10:1-4 : 1 And he called unto him his twelve disciples, and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of disease and all manner of sickness. 2 Now the names of the twelve apostles are these: The first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the [son] of Zebedee, and John his brother; 3 Philip, and Bartholomew; Thomas, and Matthew the publican; James the [son] of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus; 4 Simon the Cananaean, and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him.
• Luke 6:13-16 : 13 And when it was day, he called his disciples; and he chose from them twelve, whom also he named apostles: 14 Simon, whom he also named Peter, and Andrew his brother, and James and John, and Philip and Bartholomew, 15 and Matthew and Thomas, and James [the] [son] of Alphaeus, and Simon who was called the Zealot, 16 and Judas [the son] of James, and Judas Iscariot, who {G2532} became a traitor;
• John 13:21 : 21 When Jesus had thus said, he was troubled in the spirit, and testified, and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me.
• John 15:16 : 16 Ye did not choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that ye should go and bear fruit, and [that] your fruit should abide: that {G5100} whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.
• John 15:19 : 19 If ye were of the world, the world would love {G302} its own: but because ye are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore {G5124} the world hateth you.
• Acts 1:17 : 17 For he was numbered among us, and received his portion in this ministry.
• Acts 13:10 : 10 and said, O full of all guile and all villany, thou son of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
• 1 Tim 3:11 : 11 Women in like manner [must be] grave, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.
• Titus 2:3 : 3 that aged women likewise be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;
• 1 John 3:8 : 8 he that doeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. To this end was the Son of God manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
• Rev 3:9-9 : 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. 10 Because thou didst keep the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of trial, that [hour] which is to come upon the whole world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.