John 8:31

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Then Jesus said to the Jews who had faith in him, If you keep my word, then you are truly my disciples;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἔλεγεν οὖν ὁ Ἰησοῦς πρὸς τοὺς πεπιστευκότας αὐτῷ Ἰουδαίους, Ἐὰν ὑμεῖς μείνητε ἐν τῷ λόγῳ τῷ ἐμῷ, ἀληθῶς μαθηταί μου ἐστέ·

Transliteration

Elegen oun the Iēsous pros tous pepisteukotas to-him Ioudaious, If you meinēte en tō logō tō emō, alēthōs mathētai of-me este;

Grammar Details

• *Elegen*: imperfect active indicative, 3rd person singular - was saying [continuous past]
• *oun*: inferential particle - therefore/then
• *Iēsous*: nominative masculine singular - Jesus
• *pros*: preposition + accusative - to/toward
• *tous pepisteukotas*: perfect active participle, accusative masculine plural - the having believed/the ones who had believed
• *Ioudaious*: accusative masculine plural - Jews
• *meinēte*: aorist active subjunctive, 2nd person plural - you might remain/abide
• *en*: preposition + dative - in
• *tō logō*: dative masculine singular with article - in the word/message
• *tō emō*: dative masculine singular possessive pronoun - my/mine
• *alēthōs*: adverb - truly/genuinely
• *mathētai*: nominative masculine plural - disciples/pupils/learners
• *este*: present active indicative, 2nd person plural - you are

Word Meanings

• *pepisteukotas*: having believed/having faith/having trusted
• *meinēte*: remain/abide/continue/dwell
• *logō*: word/message/account/discourse
• *alēthōs*: truly/really/genuinely/indeed
• *mathētai*: disciples/students/followers/pupils

Referenced Verses

• 2 John 1:9 : 9 Anyone who goes on and does not keep to the teaching of Christ, has not God: he who keeps to the teaching has the Father and the Son.
• 2 Tim 3:14 : 14 But see that you keep to the teaching you have been given and the things of which you are certain, conscious of who has been your teacher;
• John 15:4-9 : 4 Be in me at all times as I am in you. As the branch is not able to give fruit of itself, if it is not still on the vine, so you are not able to do so if you are not in me. 5 I am the vine, you are the branches: he who is in me at all times as I am in him, gives much fruit, because without me you are able to do nothing. 6 If a man does not keep himself in me, he becomes dead and is cut off like a dry branch; such branches are taken up and put in the fire and burned. 7 If you are in me at all times, and my words are in you, then anything for which you make a request will be done for you. 8 Here is my Father's glory, in that you give much fruit and so are my true disciples. 9 Even as the Father has given me his love, so I have given my love to you: be ever in my love.
• Matt 24:13 : 13 But he who goes through to the end will get salvation.
• John 1:47 : 47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him and said of him, See, here is a true son of Israel in whom there is nothing false.
• John 6:55 : 55 My flesh is true food and my blood is true drink.
• John 6:66-71 : 66 Because of what he said, a number of the disciples went back and would no longer go with him. 67 So Jesus said to the twelve, Have you a desire to go away? 68 Then Simon Peter gave this answer: Lord, to whom are we to go? you have the words of eternal life; 69 And we have faith and are certain that you are the Holy One of God. 70 Then Jesus said, Did I not make a selection of you, the twelve, and one of you is a son of the Evil One? 71 He was talking of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. It was he who was to be false to Jesus--one of the twelve.
• Heb 10:38-39 : 38 But the upright man will be living by his faith; and if he goes back, my soul will have no pleasure in him. 39 But we are not of those who go back to destruction; but of those who have faith even to the salvation of the soul.
• Col 1:23 : 23 If you keep yourselves safely based in the faith, not moved from the hope of the good news which came to you, and which was given to every living being under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.
• 1 Tim 2:15 : 15 But if they go on in faith and love and holy self-control, she will be kept safe at the time of childbirth.
• 1 Tim 4:16 : 16 Give attention to yourself and your teaching. Go on in these things; for in doing so you will get salvation for yourself and for those who give hearing to you.
• Acts 13:43 : 43 Now when the meeting was ended, a number of the Jews and of the God-fearing Gentiles who had become Jews, went after Paul and Barnabas: who put before them how important it was to keep on in the grace of God.
• 1 Sam 12:14 : 14 If in the fear of the Lord you are his servants, hearing his voice and not going against the orders of the Lord, but being true to the Lord your God, you and the king ruling over you, then all will be well:
• 1 John 2:24 : 24 But as for you, keep in your hearts the things which were made clear to you from the first. If you keep these things in your hearts you will be kept in the Father and the Son.
• Acts 14:22 : 22 Making strong the souls of the disciples, saying to them that they were to keep the faith, and that we have to go through troubles of all sorts to come into the kingdom of God.
• Acts 26:22 : 22 And so, by God's help, I am here today, witnessing to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would come about;
• Rom 2:7 : 7 To those who go on with good works in the hope of glory and honour and salvation from death, he will give eternal life:
• Rom 11:22 : 22 See then that God is good but his rules are fixed: to those who were put away he was hard, but to you he has been good, on the condition that you keep in his mercy; if not, you will be cut off as they were.
• John 8:36 : 36 If then the son makes you free, you will be truly free.
• 1 Tim 5:3-5 : 3 Give honour to widows who are truly widows. 4 But if any widow has children or children's children, let these see that it is right to take care of their family and their fathers and mothers: for this is pleasing in the eyes of God. 5 Now she who is truly a widow and without family puts her hope in God, giving herself to prayer day and night.
• Jas 1:25 : 25 But he who goes on looking into the true law which makes him free, being not a hearer without memory but a doer putting it into effect, this man will have a blessing on his acts.
• 1 John 2:19 : 19 They went out from us but they were not of us; if they had been of us they would still be with us: but they went out from us so that it might be made clear that they were not of us.
• Heb 3:14 : 14 For if we keep the substance of the faith which we had at the start, even till the end, we have a part with Christ;
• Heb 8:9 : 9 Not like the agreement which I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand, to be their guide out of the land of Egypt; for they did not keep the agreement with me, and I gave them up, says the Lord.