John 12:48

Bible in Basic English (1941)

He who puts me on one side and does not take my words to heart, is not without a judge: the word which I have said will be his judge on the last day.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὁ ἀθετῶν ἐμὲ, καὶ μὴ λαμβάνων τὰ ῥήματά μου, ἔχει τὸν κρίνοντα αὐτόν: ὁ λόγος ὃν ἐλάλησα, ἐκεῖνος κρινεῖ αὐτὸν ἐν τῇ ἐσχάτῃ ἡμέρᾳ.

Transliteration

The athetōn me, and not lambanōn the rhēmata of me, echei the krinonta him: the logos which elalēsa, that krinei him in the eschatē hēmera.

Grammar Details

• *athetōn*: present active participle, nominative, masculine, singular - rejecting/setting aside
• *lambanōn*: present active participle, nominative, masculine, singular - receiving/taking
• *rhēmata*: accusative, neuter, plural - words/sayings
• *echei*: present active indicative, 3rd singular - has/holds
• *krinonta*: present active participle, accusative, masculine, singular - judging/condemning
• *logos*: nominative, masculine, singular - word/message
• *elalēsa*: aorist active indicative, 1st singular - I spoke
• *krinei*: future active indicative, 3rd singular - will judge
• *eschatē*: dative, feminine, singular - last/final
• *hēmera*: dative, feminine, singular - day

Word Meanings

• *athetōn*: rejecting/setting aside/nullifying
• *lambanōn*: receiving/taking/accepting
• *rhēmata*: words/sayings/utterances
• *logos*: word/message/reason/account
• *eschatē*: last/final/ultimate

Referenced Verses

• Luke 10:16 : 16 Whoever gives ear to you, gives ear to me; and whoever is against you, is against me; and whoever is against me, is against him who sent me.
• Rom 2:16 : 16 In the day when God will be a judge of the secrets of men, as it says in the good news of which I am a preacher, through Jesus Christ.
• 2 Thess 1:8 : 8 To give punishment to those who have no knowledge of God, and to those who do not give ear to the good news of our Lord Jesus:
• Heb 9:27-28 : 27 And because by God's law death comes to men once, and after that they are judged; 28 So Christ, having at his first coming taken on himself the sins of men, will be seen a second time, without sin, by those who are waiting for him, for their salvation.
• Heb 10:29-31 : 29 But will not the man by whom the Son of God has been crushed under foot, and the blood of the agreement with which he was washed clean has been taken as an unholy thing, and who has had no respect for the Spirit of grace, be judged bad enough for a very much worse punishment? 30 For we have had experience of him who says, Punishment is mine, I will give reward. And again, The Lord will be judge of his people. 31 We may well go in fear of falling into the hands of the living God.
• Heb 12:25 : 25 See that you give ear to his voice which comes to you. For if those whose ears were shut to the voice which came to them on earth did not go free from punishment, what chance have we of going free if we give no attention to him whose voice comes from heaven?
• Heb 2:3 : 3 What will come on us, if we do not give our minds to such a great salvation? a salvation of which our fathers first had knowledge through the words of the Lord, and which was made certain to us by those to whom his words came;
• John 3:17-20 : 17 God did not send his Son into the world to be judge of the world; he sent him so that the world might have salvation through him. 18 The man who has faith in him does not come up to be judged; but he who has no faith in him has been judged even now, because he has no faith in the name of the only Son of God. 19 And this is the test by which men are judged: the light has come into the world and men have more love for the dark than for the light, because their acts are evil. 20 The light is hated by everyone whose acts are evil and he does not come to the light for fear that his acts will be seen.
• John 5:45 : 45 Put out of your minds the thought that I will say things against you to the Father: the one who says things against you is Moses, on whom you put your hopes.
• John 11:24 : 24 Martha said to him, I am certain that he will come to life again when all come back from the dead at the last day.
• Acts 3:23 : 23 And every soul who does not give attention to that prophet, will be cut off from among the people.
• 2 Cor 2:15-16 : 15 For we are a sweet perfume of Christ to God in those who are getting salvation and in those who are going to destruction; 16 To the one it is a perfume of death to death; to the other a perfume of life to life. And who is enough for such things?
• 2 Cor 4:3 : 3 But if our good news is veiled, it is veiled from those who are on the way to destruction:
• Luke 17:25 : 25 But first, he will have to undergo much and be put on one side by this generation.
• Luke 20:17 : 17 But he, looking on them, said, Is it not in the Writings, The stone which the builders put on one side, the same has become the chief stone of the building?
• Deut 18:18-19 : 18 I will give them a prophet from among themselves, like you, and I will put my words in his mouth, and he will say to them whatever I give him orders to say. 19 And whoever does not give ear to my words which he will say in my name, will be responsible to me.
• 1 Sam 8:7 : 7 And the Lord said to Samuel, Give ear to the voice of the people and what they say to you: they have not been turned away from you, but they have been turned away from me, not desiring me to be king over them.
• 1 Sam 10:19 : 19 But today you are turned away from your God, who himself has been your saviour from all your troubles and sorrows; and you have said to him, Put a king over us. So now, take your places before the Lord by your tribes and by your thousands.
• Isa 53:3 : 3 Men made sport of him, turning away from him; he was a man of sorrows, marked by disease; and like one from whom men's faces are turned away, he was looked down on, and we put no value on him.
• Matt 21:42 : 42 Jesus says to them, Did you never see in the Writings, The stone which the builders put on one side, the same has been made the chief stone of the building: this was the Lord's doing, and it is a wonder in our eyes?
• Matt 25:31 : 31 But when the Son of man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then will he be seated in his glory:
• Mark 8:31 : 31 And teaching them, he said that the Son of man would have to undergo much, and be hated by those in authority, and the chief priests, and the scribes, and be put to death, and after three days come back from the dead.
• Mark 12:10 : 10 Have you not seen this which is in the Writings: The stone which the builders put on one side, the same was made the chief stone of the building:
• Mark 16:16 : 16 He who has faith and is given baptism will get salvation; but he who has not faith will be judged.
• Luke 7:30 : 30 But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law were against the purpose of God for themselves, not having had his baptism.)
• Luke 9:22 : 22 Saying, The Son of man will undergo much and be put on one side by the rulers and the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and be put to death, and on the third day he will come back to life.
• Luke 9:26 : 26 For if any man has a feeling of shame because of me or of my words, the Son of man will have shame because of him when he comes in his glory and the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.