John 8:28

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Εἶπεν οὖν αὐτοῖς ὁ Ἰησοῦς, Ὅταν ὑψώσητε τὸν Υἱὸν τοῦ ἀνθρώπου, Τότε γνώσεσθε ὅτι ἐγώ εἰμι, καὶ ἀπʼ ἐμαυτοῦ ποιῶ οὐδέν· ἀλλὰ καθὼς ἐδίδαξέν με ὁ Πατήρ μου, ταῦτα λαλῶ.

Transliteration

Eipen oun to-them the Iēsous, When hypsōsēte the Hyion tou anthrōpou, Then gnōsesthe that egō eimi, and from emautou poiō ouden; but kathōs edidaxen me the Patēr of-me, these lalō.

Grammar Details

• *Eipen*: aorist active indicative, 3rd person singular - said/spoke [completed action]
• *oun*: inferential particle - therefore/then
• *Iēsous*: nominative masculine singular - Jesus
• *hypsōsēte*: aorist active subjunctive, 2nd person plural - you might lift up/exalt
• *Hyion*: accusative masculine singular - Son
• *tou anthrōpou*: genitive masculine singular - of man/human
• *Tote*: temporal adverb - then/at that time
• *gnōsesthe*: future middle indicative, 2nd person plural - you will know
• *egō eimi*: pronoun + present active indicative, 1st person singular - I am
• *emautou*: reflexive pronoun, genitive masculine singular - myself
• *poiō*: present active indicative, 1st person singular - I do/make
• *ouden*: pronoun, accusative neuter singular - nothing
• *kathōs*: comparative adverb - just as/according as
• *edidaxen*: aorist active indicative, 3rd person singular - taught/instructed [completed action]
• *Patēr*: nominative masculine singular - Father
• *tauta*: demonstrative pronoun, accusative neuter plural - these things
• *lalō*: present active indicative, 1st person singular - I speak/tell

Word Meanings

• *hypsōsēte*: lift up/raise/exalt [possible reference to crucifixion]
• *Hyion tou anthrōpou*: Son of Man [messianic title]
• *egō eimi*: I am/I exist/I am he [possible divine name reference]
• *poiō*: do/make/perform/create
• *edidaxen*: taught/instructed/informed

Referenced Verses

• John 5:30 : 30 I can of myself do {G3756} nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is righteous; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
• John 5:19 : 19 Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do {G3756} nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father doing: for what things soever he doeth, these the Son also doeth in like manner.
• John 3:14 : 14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up;
• John 6:38 : 38 For I am come down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
• John 12:49-50 : 49 For I {G2980} spake not from myself; but the Father that sent me, he hath given me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. 50 And I know that his commandment is life eternal: the things therefore which I speak, even as the Father hath said unto me, so I speak.
• Rom 1:4 : 4 who was declared [to be] the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead; [even] Jesus Christ our Lord,
• 1 Thess 2:15-16 : 15 who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove out us, and pleased not God, and are contrary to all men; 16 forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved; to fill up their sins always: but the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
• Heb 2:2-3 : 2 For if the word spoken through angels proved stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward; 3 how shall we escape, if we neglect so great a salvation? which having at the first been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed unto us by them that heard;
• John 16:10 : 10 of righteousness, because I go to the Father, and ye behold me no more;
• John 19:18 : 18 where they crucified him, and with him two others, on either side one, and Jesus in the midst.
• Acts 2:41 : 41 They then that {G780} received his word were baptized: and there were added [unto them] in that day about three thousand souls.
• Acts 4:4 : 4 But many of them that heard the word believed; and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.
• John 8:24 : 24 I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for except {G3361} ye believe that I am [he], ye shall die in your sins.
• John 11:42 : 42 And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the multitude that standeth around I said it, that they may believe that thou didst send me.
• John 12:32-34 : 32 And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto myself. 33 But this he said, signifying by what manner of death he should die. 34 The multitude therefore answered him, We have heard out of the law that the Christ abideth for ever: and how sayest thou, The Son of man must be lifted up? who is this Son of man?
• Num 16:28-30 : 28 And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that Jehovah hath sent me to do all these works; for [I have] not [done them] of mine own mind. 29 If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then Jehovah hath not sent me. 30 But if Jehovah make a new thing, and the ground open its mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down alive into Sheol; then ye shall understand that these men have despised Jehovah.
• Matt 27:50-54 : 50 And Jesus cried again with a loud voice, and yielded up his spirit. 51 And behold, the veil of the temple was rent in two from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake; and the rocks were rent; 52 and the tombs were opened; and many bodies of the saints that had fallen asleep were raised; 53 and coming forth out of the tombs after his resurrection they entered into the holy city and appeared unto many. 54 Now the centurion, and they that were with him watching Jesus, when they saw the earthquake, and the things that were done, feared exceedingly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.
• John 3:11 : 11 Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that which we know, and bear witness of that which we have seen; and ye receive not our witness.