John 8:42

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love {G302} me: for I came forth and am come from God; for neither have I come of myself, but he sent me.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Εἶπεν αὐτοῖς ὁ Ἰησοῦς, Εἰ ὁ Θεὸς Πατὴρ ὑμῶν ἦν, ἠγαπᾶτε ἂν ἐμέ: ἐγὼ γὰρ ἐκ τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐξῆλθον καὶ ἥκω· οὐδὲ γὰρ ἀπʼ ἐμαυτοῦ ἐλήλυθα, ἀλλʼ ἐκεῖνός με ἀπέστειλεν.

Transliteration

Eipen to-them the Iēsous, If the Theos Patēr of-you ēn, ēgapate an me: I for from the Theou exēlthon kai hēkō; neither for from emautou elēlytha, but ekeinos me apesteilen.

Grammar Details

• *Eipen*: aorist active indicative, 3rd person singular - said/spoke
• *Iēsous*: nominative masculine singular - Jesus
• *Theos*: nominative masculine singular - God
• *Patēr*: nominative masculine singular - Father
• *ēn*: imperfect active indicative, 3rd person singular - was
• *ēgapate*: imperfect active indicative, 2nd person plural - you were loving
• *an*: modal particle - would/might [contrary-to-fact condition]
• *gar*: postpositive conjunction - for/because
• *Theou*: genitive masculine singular - of God
• *exēlthon*: aorist active indicative, 1st person singular - I came out/forth
• *hēkō*: present active indicative, 1st person singular - I have come/am present
• *oude*: negative conjunction - neither/nor/not even
• *emautou*: reflexive pronoun, genitive masculine singular - myself
• *elēlytha*: perfect active indicative, 1st person singular - I have come
• *ekeinos*: demonstrative pronoun, nominative masculine singular - that one/he
• *apesteilen*: aorist active indicative, 3rd person singular - sent/dispatched

Word Meanings

• *ēgapate an*: would love/would have loved [contrary-to-fact condition]
• *exēlthon*: came out/proceeded from/departed from
• *hēkō*: have come/am present/have arrived
• *elēlytha*: have come/have arrived [completed action with continuing results]
• *ekeinos*: that one/he [referring to God the Father]
• *apesteilen*: sent/dispatched/commissioned

Referenced Verses

• John 17:8 : 8 for the words which thou gavest me I have given unto them; and they received [them], and knew of a truth that I came forth from thee, and they believed that thou didst send me.
• John 12:49 : 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.
• John 14:10 : 10 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I say unto you I speak not from myself: but the Father {G3588} abiding in me doeth his works.
• 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.
• John 17:25 : 25 O righteous Father, the world {G1097} knew thee not, but I knew thee; and these knew that thou didst send me;
• 1 Cor 16:22 : 22 If any man loveth not the Lord, let him be anathema. Maranatha.
• Gal 4:4 : 4 but when the fulness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
• 1 John 4:9-9 : 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. 10 Herein {G5129} is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins.
• 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.
• 1 John 5:1-2 : 1 Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is begotten of God: and whosoever {G3588} loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him. 2 Hereby {G5129} we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and do his commandments.
• 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,
• John 5:23 : 23 that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He that honoreth not the Son honoreth not the Father that sent him.
• John 5:43 : 43 I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
• John 7:28-29 : 28 Jesus therefore cried in the temple, teaching and saying, Ye both know me, and know whence I am; and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye know not. 29 {G1161} I know him; because I am from him, and he sent me.
• John 15:23-24 : 23 He that hateth me hateth my Father also. 24 If I had not done among them the works which none other did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
• 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.
• Mal 1:6 : 6 A son honoreth his father, and a servant his master: if then I am a father, where is mine honor? and if I am a master, where is my fear? saith Jehovah of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?
• John 1:14 : 14 And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father), full of grace and truth.