John 7:29

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

{G1161} I know him; because I am from him, and he sent me.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἐγὼ δὲ οἶδα αὐτόν: ὅτι παρʼ αὐτοῦ εἰμι, κἀκεῖνός με ἀπέστειλεν.

Transliteration

Egō de oida him: hoti par' him eimi, kakeinos me apesteilen.

Grammar Details

*Egō*: nominative, 1st person singular pronoun - I
*de*: postpositive particle - but/and/now
*oida*: perfect, indicative, active, 1st singular - I know/have known
*hoti*: conjunction - because/that/for
*par'*: preposition + genitive - from/beside
*eimi*: present, indicative, 1st singular - I am/exist
*kakeinos*: contraction of *kai ekeinos* - nominative, masculine, singular - and that one/and he
*apesteilen*: aorist, indicative, active, 3rd singular - sent/dispatched

Word Meanings

*Egō*: I (emphatic)
*de*: but/and/now/yet
*oida*: know/have knowledge of (perfect tense)
*hoti*: because/for/that/since
*par'*: from/beside/with/in the presence of
*kakeinos*: and that one/and he/that one also
*apesteilen*: sent/commissioned/dispatched

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

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.
Matt 11:27 : 27 All things have been delivered unto me of my Father: and no one knows the Son, save the Father; neither does any know the Father, save the Son, and he to whomever the Son willeth to reveal him.
John 1:18 : 18 No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared [him].
John 3:16-17 : 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life. 17 For God sent not the Son into the world to judge the world; but that the world should be saved through him.
John 6:46 : 46 Not that any man hath seen the Father, save {G3361} he that is from God, he hath seen the Father.
John 10:15 : 15 even as the Father knoweth me, and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.
John 13:3 : 3 [ Jesus], knowing that the Father had given all the things into his hands, and that he came forth from God, and goeth unto God,
John 16:27-28 : 27 for the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came forth from the Father. 28 I came out from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go unto the Father.
John 17:18 : 18 As thou didst send me into the world, even so sent I them into the world.
John 17:25-26 : 25 O righteous Father, the world {G1097} knew thee not, but I knew thee; and these knew that thou didst send me; 26 and I made known unto them thy name, and will make it known; that the love wherewith thou lovedst me may be in them, and I in them.
1 John 1:2 : 2 (and the life was manifested, and we have seen, and bear witness, and declare unto you the life, the eternal [life], which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us);
1 John 4:9 : 9 Herein {G5129} was the love of God manifested in us, that God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him.
1 John 4:14 : 14 And we have beheld and bear witness that the Father hath sent the Son [to be] the Saviour of the world.

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