John 20:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Jesus said to her, Do not put your hand on me, for I have not gone up to the Father: but go to my brothers and say to them, I go up to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Λέγει αὐτῇ ὁ Ἰησοῦς, Μή μου ἅπτου· οὔπω γὰρ ἀναβέβηκα πρὸς τὸν Πατέρα μου: πορεύου δὲ πρὸς τοὺς ἀδελφούς μου, καὶ εἰπὲ αὐτοῖς, Ἀναβαίνω πρὸς τὸν Πατέρα μου, καὶ Πατέρα ὑμῶν· καὶ Θεόν μου, καὶ Θεὸν ὑμῶν.

Transliteration

Legei to her the Iesous, Not of me haptou; not yet for I have anabebeka pros the Patera of me: poreuou but pros the adelphous of me, and eipe to them, I anabaino pros the Patera of me, and Patera of you; and Theon of me, and Theon of you.

Grammar Details

• *Legei*: present active indicative 3rd person singular - says/is saying
• *Iesous*: nominative masculine singular - Jesus
• *haptou*: present middle imperative 2nd person singular - touch/cling to
• *anabebeka*: perfect active indicative 1st person singular - I have ascended/gone up
• *pros*: preposition with accusative - to/toward
• *Patera*: accusative masculine singular - Father
• *poreuou*: present middle imperative 2nd person singular - go/proceed
• *adelphous*: accusative masculine plural - brothers/brethren
• *eipe*: aorist active imperative 2nd person singular - tell/say
• *anabaino*: present active indicative 1st person singular - I am ascending/going up
• *Theon*: accusative masculine singular - God

Word Meanings

• *Legei*: says/tells/speaks
• *haptou*: touch/cling to/hold on to
• *anabebeka*: have ascended/gone up (completed action with present effect)
• *pros*: to/toward/with
• *Patera*: Father
• *poreuou*: go/proceed/journey
• *adelphous*: brothers/brethren/fellow believers
• *eipe*: tell/say (command)
• *anabaino*: am ascending/going up (present, ongoing)
• *Theon*: God/Deity

Referenced Verses

• Heb 2:11-13 : 11 For he who makes holy and those who are made holy are all of one family; and for this reason it is no shame for him to give them the name of brothers, 12 Saying, I will give the knowledge of your name to my brothers, I will make a song of praise to you before the church. 13 And again he says, I will put my faith in him. And again, See, I am here, and the children which God has given to me.
• Heb 8:10 : 10 For this is the agreement which I will make with the people of Israel after those days: I will put my laws into their minds, writing them in their hearts: and I will be their God, and they will be my people:
• Heb 11:16 : 16 But now their desire is for a better country, that is to say, for one in heaven; and so it is no shame to God to be named their God; for he has made ready a town for them.
• 1 Pet 1:3 : 3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who through his great mercy has given us a new birth and a living hope by the coming again of Jesus Christ from the dead,
• 1 John 3:2 : 2 My loved ones, now we are children of God, and at present it is not clear what we are to be. We are certain that at his revelation we will be like him; for we will see him as he is.
• Rev 21:3 : 3 And there came to my ears a great voice out of the high seat, saying, See, the Tent of God is with men, and he will make his living-place with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them, and be their God.
• Rev 21:7 : 7 He who overcomes will have these things for his heritage; and I will be his God, and he will be my son.
• Gen 17:7-8 : 7 And I will make between me and you and your seed after you through all generations, an eternal agreement to be a God to you and to your seed after you. 8 And to you and to your seed after you, I will give the land in which you are living, all the land of Canaan for an eternal heritage; and I will be their God.
• Eph 4:8-9 : 8 For this reason he says, He went up on high, taking his prisoners with him, and gave freely to men. 9 (Now this, He went up, what is it but that he first went down into the lower parts of the earth? 10 He who went down is the same who went up far over all the heavens so that he might make all things complete.)
• 2 Kgs 7:9 : 9 Then they said to one another, We are not doing right. Today is a day of good news, and we say nothing: if we go on waiting here till the morning, punishment will come to us. So let us go and give the news to those of the king's house.
• Ps 22:22 : 22 I will give the knowledge of your name to my brothers: I will give you praise among the people.
• Ps 43:4 : 4 Then I will go up to the altar of God, to the God of my joy; I will be glad and give praise to you on an instrument of music, O God, my God.
• Ps 48:14 : 14 Because this God is our God for ever and ever: he will be our guide.
• Ps 68:18 : 18 You have gone up on high, taking your prisoners with you; you have taken offerings from men; the Lord God has taken his place on the seat of his power.
• Ps 89:26 : 26 He will say to me, You are my father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation.
• Isa 41:10 : 10 Have no fear, for I am with you; do not be looking about in trouble, for I am your God; I will give you strength, yes, I will be your helper; yes, my true right hand will be your support.
• Jer 31:33 : 33 But this is the agreement which I will make with the people of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my law in their inner parts, writing it in their hearts; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.
• Jer 32:38 : 38 And they will be my people, and I will be their God:
• Ezek 36:28 : 28 So that you may go on living in the land which I gave to your fathers; and you will be to me a people, and I will be to you a God.
• Ezek 37:27 : 27 And my House will be over them; and I will be to them a God, and they will be to me a people.
• Zech 13:7-9 : 7 Awake! O sword, against the keeper of my flock, and against him who is with me, says the Lord of armies: put to death the keeper of the sheep, and the sheep will go in flight: and my hand will be turned against the little ones. 8 And it will come about that in all the land, says the Lord, two parts of it will be cut off and come to an end; but the third will be still living there. 9 And I will make the third part go through the fire, cleaning them as silver is made clean, and testing them as gold is tested: and they will make their prayer to me and I will give them an answer: I will say, It is my people; and they will say, The Lord is my God.
• Matt 12:50 : 50 For whoever does the pleasure of my Father in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.
• Matt 25:40 : 40 And the King will make answer and say to them, Truly I say to you, Because you did it to the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.
• Matt 28:7 : 7 And go quickly and give his disciples the news that he has come back from the dead, and is going before you into Galilee; there you will see him, as I have said to you.
• Matt 28:9-9 : 9 And on the way, Jesus came to them, saying, Be glad. And they came and put their hands on his feet, and gave him worship. 10 Then said Jesus to them, Have no fear: go and give word to my brothers to go into Galilee, and there they will see me.
• Mark 16:19 : 19 So then the Lord Jesus, after he had said these words to them, was taken up into heaven and took his seat at the right hand of God.
• Luke 10:4 : 4 Take no bag for money or for food, and no shoes; say no word to any man on the way.
• Luke 24:49-51 : 49 And now I will send to you what my father has undertaken to give you, but do not go from the town, till the power from heaven comes to you. 50 And he took them out till they were near Bethany, and lifting up his hands, he gave them a blessing. 51 And while he was doing so, he went from them and was taken up into heaven.
• John 1:12-13 : 12 To all those who did so take him, however, he gave the right of becoming children of God--that is, to those who had faith in his name: 13 Whose birth was from God and not from blood, or from an impulse of the flesh and man's desire.
• John 7:33 : 33 Then Jesus said, I will be with you a little longer and then I go to him who sent me.
• John 13:1 : 1 Now before the feast of the Passover, it was clear to Jesus that the time had come for him to go away from this world to the Father. Having once had love for those in the world who were his, his love for them went on to the end.
• John 13:3 : 3 Jesus, being conscious that the Father had put everything into his hands, and that he came from God and was going to God,
• John 14:2 : 2 In my Father's house are rooms enough; if it was not so, would I have said that I am going to make ready a place for you?
• John 14:6 : 6 Jesus said to him, I am the true and living way: no one comes to the Father but by me.
• John 14:28 : 28 Keep in mind how I said to you, I go away and come to you again. If you had love for me you would be glad, because I am going to the Father: for the Father is greater than I.
• John 16:28 : 28 I came out from the Father and have come into the world: again, I go away from the world and go to the Father.
• John 17:5 : 5 And now, Father, let me have glory with you, even that glory which I had with you before the world was.
• John 17:11 : 11 And now I will be no longer in the world, but they are in the world and I come to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name which you have given to me, so that they may be one even as we are one.
• John 17:25 : 25 Father of righteousness, I have knowledge of you, though the world has not; and to these it is clear that you sent me;
• John 20:27 : 27 Then he said to Thomas, Put out your finger, and see my hands; and put your hand here into my side: and be no longer in doubt but have belief.
• Rom 8:14-17 : 14 And all those who are guided by the Spirit of God are sons of God. 15 For you did not get the spirit of servants again to put you in fear, but the spirit of sons was given to you, by which we say, Abba, Father. 16 The Spirit is witness with our spirit that we are children of God: 17 And if we are children, we have a right to a part in the heritage; a part in the things of God, together with Christ; so that if we have a part in his pain, we will in the same way have a part in his glory.
• Rom 8:29 : 29 Because those of whom he had knowledge before they came into existence, were marked out by him to be made like his Son, so that he might be the first among a band of brothers:
• 2 Cor 6:18 : 18 And will be a Father to you; and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord, the Ruler of all.
• Gal 3:26 : 26 Because you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
• Gal 4:6-7 : 6 And because you are sons, God has sent out the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, saying, Abba, Father. 7 So that you are no longer a servant, but a son; and if a son, then the heritage of God is yours.
• Eph 1:17-23 : 17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him; 18 And that having the eyes of your heart full of light, you may have knowledge of what is the hope of his purpose, what is the wealth of the glory of his heritage in the saints, 19 And how unlimited is his power to us who have faith, as is seen in the working of the strength of his power, 20 By which he made Christ come back from the dead, and gave him a place at his right hand in heaven, 21 Far over all rule and authority and power and every name which is named, not only in the present order, but in that which is to come: 22 And he has put all things under his feet, and has made him to be head over all things to the church, 23 Which is his body, the full measure of him in whom all things are made complete.
• 2 Kgs 4:29 : 29 Then he said to Gehazi, Make yourself ready, and take my stick in your hand, and go: if you come across anyone on the way, give him no blessing, and if anyone gives you a blessing, give him no answer. And put my stick on the child's face.