John 15:21

Bible in Basic English (1941)

They will do all this to you because of my name--because they have no knowledge of him who sent me.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἀλλὰ ταῦτα πάντα ποιήσουσιν ὑμῖν διὰ τὸ ὄνομά μου, ὅτι οὐκ οἴδασιν τὸν πέμψαντά με.

Transliteration

Alla tauta panta poiēsousin humin dia to onoma mou, hoti ouk oidasin ton pempsanta me.

Grammar Details

• *Alla*: conjunction - but
• *tauta panta*: demonstrative pronoun + accusative, neuter, plural - all these things
• *poiēsousin*: future indicative, active, third person plural - they will do
• *humin*: dative, plural, second person pronoun - to you [plural]
• *dia*: preposition + accusative - because of/for the sake of
• *to onoma*: accusative, neuter, singular - the name
• *mou*: genitive, singular, first person pronoun - my/of me
• *hoti*: conjunction - because
• *ouk oidasin*: negative + perfect indicative (with present meaning), active, third person plural - they do not know
• *ton pempsanta*: accusative, masculine, singular, participle - the one who sent
• *me*: accusative, singular, first person pronoun - me

Word Meanings

• *tauta panta*: all these things/all these matters
• *poiēsousin*: will do/will perform/will carry out
• *onoma*: name/reputation/person
• *oidasin*: know/understand/recognize
• *pempsanta*: having sent/who sent/the sender

Referenced Verses

• Matt 10:22 : 22 And you will be hated by all men because of my name: but he who is strong to the end will have salvation.
• John 16:3 : 3 They will do these things to you because they have not had knowledge of the Father or of me.
• Matt 24:9 : 9 Then they will be cruel to you, and will put you to death: and you will be hated by all nations because of my name.
• John 8:19 : 19 Then they said to him, Where is your Father? Jesus said in answer, You have no knowledge of me or of my Father: if you had knowledge of me you would have knowledge of my Father.
• John 8:54 : 54 Jesus said in answer, If I take glory for myself, my glory is nothing: it is my Father who gives me glory, of whom you say that he is your God.
• Luke 6:22 : 22 Happy are you, when men have hate for you, and put you away from among them and say angry words to you, turning away in disgust at your name, because of the Son of man.
• Matt 10:39 : 39 He who has the desire to keep his life will have it taken from him, and he who gives up his life because of me will have it given back to him.
• Ps 69:7 : 7 I have been wounded with sharp words because of you; my face has been covered with shame.
• Isa 66:5 : 5 Give ear to the word of the Lord, you who are in fear at his word: your countrymen, hating you, and driving you out because of my name, have said, Let the Lord's glory be made clear, so that we may see your joy; but they will be put to shame.
• Matt 5:11 : 11 Happy are you when men give you a bad name, and are cruel to you, and say all evil things against you falsely, because of me.
• Matt 10:18 : 18 And you will come before rulers and kings because of me, for a witness to them and to the Gentiles.
• Acts 3:17 : 17 And now, my brothers, I am conscious that you did this, as did your rulers, without knowledge.
• Acts 5:41 : 41 So they went away from the Sanhedrin, happy to undergo shame for the Name.
• Acts 9:16 : 16 For I will make clear to him what troubles he will have to undergo for me.
• Acts 17:23 : 23 For when I came by, I was looking at the things to which you give worship, and I saw an altar with this writing on it, TO THE GOD OF WHOM THERE IS NO KNOWLEDGE. Now, what you, without knowledge, give worship to, I make clear to you.
• Acts 28:25-27 : 25 And they went away, for there was a division among them after Paul had said this one thing: Well did the Holy Spirit say by the prophet Isaiah to your fathers, 26 Go to this people and say, Though you give ear, you will not get knowledge; and seeing, you will see, but the sense will not be clear to you: 27 For the heart of this people has become fat and their ears are slow in hearing and their eyes are shut; for fear that they might see with their eyes and give hearing with their ears and become wise in their hearts and be turned again to me, so that I might make them well.
• Rom 1:28 : 28 And because they had not the mind to keep God in their knowledge, God gave them up to an evil mind, to do those things which are not right;
• 1 Cor 2:8 : 8 Of which not one of the rulers of this world had knowledge: for if they had, they would not have put the Lord of glory on the cross:
• 1 Cor 15:34 : 34 Be awake to righteousness and keep yourselves from sin; for some have no knowledge of God: I say this to put you to shame.
• 2 Cor 4:3-6 : 3 But if our good news is veiled, it is veiled from those who are on the way to destruction: 4 Because the god of this world has made blind the minds of those who have not faith, so that the light of the good news of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, might not be shining on them. 5 For our preaching is not about ourselves, but about Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants through Jesus. 6 Seeing that it is God who said, Let light be shining out of the dark, who has put in our hearts the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of 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:
• 1 Pet 4:13-14 : 13 But be glad that you are given a part in the pains of Christ; so that at the revelation of his glory you may have great joy. 14 If men say evil things of you because of the name of Christ, happy are you; for the Spirit of glory and of God is resting on you.
• 1 John 2:3-4 : 3 And by this we may be certain that we have knowledge of him, if we keep his laws. 4 The man who says, I have knowledge of him, and does not keep his laws, is false, and there is nothing true in him:
• Rev 2:3 : 3 And you have the power of waiting, and have undergone trouble because of my name, without weariness.