John 5:46

Bishops' Bible (1568)

For had ye beleued Moyses, ye would haue beleued me: for he wrote of me.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Εἰ γὰρ ἐπιστεύετε Μωσῇ, ἐπιστεύετε ἂν ἐμοί: περὶ γὰρ ἐμοῦ ἐκεῖνος ἔγραψεν.

Transliteration

If for episteuete Mōsē, episteuete an me: concerning for me that one egrapsen.

Grammar Details

• *Ei*: conditional conjunction - if
• *gar*: postpositive conjunction - for
• *episteuete*: imperfect active indicative, 2nd plural of *pisteuō* - you were believing
• *Mōsē*: noun, dative, masculine, singular - Moses
• *an*: modal particle with imperfect - would
• *emoi*: personal pronoun, dative, 1st singular - me
• *peri*: preposition with genitive - concerning/about
• *emou*: personal pronoun, genitive, 1st singular - me
• *ekeinos*: demonstrative pronoun, nominative, masculine, singular - that one
• *egrapsen*: aorist active indicative, 3rd singular of *graphō* - wrote

Word Meanings

• *episteuete*: you were believing/you believed
• *episteuete an*: you would believe/you would have believed
• *egrapsen*: wrote/has written

Referenced Verses

• Deut 18:15 : 15 The Lorde thy God wyll stirre vp vnto thee a prophete among you, euen of thy brethren like vnto me, vnto hym ye shall hearken,
• Deut 18:18-19 : 18 I wyll raise them vp a prophete from among their brethren lyke vnto thee, and wyll put my wordes in his mouth, and he shall speake vnto them all that I shall commaunde hym. 19 And whosoeuer wyll not hearken vnto my wordes, which he shall speake in my name, I wyll require it of hym.
• John 1:45 : 45 Philip founde Nathanael, and sayth vnto hym: We haue founde hym, of whom Moyses in the lawe, and the prophetes, dyd write: Iesus of Nazareth, the sonne of Ioseph.
• Acts 26:22 : 22 Seyng therefore, that I haue obtayned helpe of God, I continue vnto this day, witnessyng both to small and to great, saying none other thynges, then those which the prophetes and Moyses dyd say shoulde come:
• Luke 24:27 : 27 And he began at Moyses, and all the prophetes, and interpreted vnto them in all Scriptures which were writen of hym.
• Heb 7:1-9 : 1 For this Melchisedech kyng of Salem, priest of the most hye God, who met Abraham returnyng from the slaughter of the kynges, and blessed hym: 2 To whom also Abraham gaue tythe of all thynges, first being called by interpretatio king of righteousnes, & after yt also, kyng of Salem, which is, kyng of peace. 3 Without father, without mother, without kynne, hauyng neither beginnyng of dayes, neither ende of lyfe, but lykened vnto the sonne of God, and continueth a priest for euer. 4 Nowe consider howe great this man was, vnto whom also the patriarche Abraham gaue tythe of the spoyles. 5 And veryly they which are of the children of Leuie, which receaue the office of the priesthood, haue a commaundement to take tythe of the people accordyng to the lawe, that is, of their brethren, though they came out of ye loynes of Abraham. 6 But he whose kynrede is not counted among them, receaued tythe of Abraham, and blessed hym that had the promises. 7 And without all controuersie, the lesse is blessed of the better. 8 And here men that dye, receaue tithes: but there he receaueth them of whom it is witnessed that he lyueth. 9 And to say the trueth, Leuie also whiche receaueth tythes, payed tythes in Abraham. 10 For he was yet in the loynes of his father, when Melchisedech met Abraham.
• Gen 12:3 : 3 I wyll also blesse them that blesse thee, and curse the that curseth thee: and in thee shall all kinredes of the earth be blessed.
• Num 21:8-9 : 8 And the Lorde sayde vnto Moyses: Make thee a fierie serpent, and set it vp vpon a pole: that as many as are bitten may loke vpon it, and lyue. 9 And Moyses made a serpent of brasse, and set it vpon a pole: and when the serpent had bitten any man, he behelde the serpent of brasse, and lyued.
• Num 24:17-18 : 17 I shall see him, but not nowe, I shall beholde him, but not nigh: There shall come a starre of Iacob, and ryse a scepter of Israel, & shall smyte the coastes of Moab, and vndermine all the chyldren of Seth. 18 And Edom shalbe possessed, & Seir shall fall to the possession of their enemies, and Israel shall do manfully.
• Gen 49:10 : 10 The scepter shal not depart from Iuda, and a law geuer from betweene his feete, vntyll Silo come: And vnto hym shall the gatheryng of the people be.
• Gen 3:15 : 15 I wyll also put enmitie betweene thee & the woman, betweene thy seede and her seede: and it shall treade downe thy head, and thou shalt treade vpon his heele.
• Gen 22:18 : 18 And in thy seede shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou hast hearde my voyce.
• Gen 28:14 : 14 And thy seede shalbe as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spreade abrode to the west, to the east, to the north, and to the south: and in thee, and in thy seede, shall all the kynredes of the earth be blessed.
• Gen 18:18 : 18 Seyng that Abraham shall surely be a great and a myghtie nation, and all the nations of the earth shalbe blessed in hym?
• Rom 10:4 : 4 For Christe is the ende of the lawe, for ryghteousnesse to all that beleue.
• Gal 2:19 : 19 For I, through the lawe, am dead to the lawe, that I myght lyue vnto God: I am crucified with Christe.
• Gal 3:10 : 10 For as many as are of the deedes of the lawe, are vnder the curse. For it is writte: Cursed is euery one that continueth not in all thinges which are written in the booke of the lawe, to do them.
• Gal 3:13 : 13 Christe hath redeemed vs from the curse of the lawe, beyng made a curse for vs. For it is written: Cursed is euery one that hangeth on tree:
• Gal 3:24 : 24 Wherfore, the lawe was our scholemaister vnto Christe, that we shoulde be iustified by fayth.
• Gal 4:21-31 : 21 Tell me, ye that desire to be vnder the lawe, do ye not heare the lawe? 22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sonnes, the one by a bonde mayde, the other by a free woman: 23 But he which was of the bonde woman, was borne after the fleshe: but he which was of the free woman, was borne by promise. 24 Which thynges are spoken by an allegorie. For these are two testamentes: the one from the mount Sina, which gendreth vnto bondage, which is Agar. 25 For Agar is the mount Sina in Arabia, and bordreth vpon the citie, which is nowe called Hierusalem, and is in bondage with her chyldren. 26 But Hierusalem which is aboue, is free: which is the mother of vs all. 27 For it is written: Reioyce thou baren, that bearest no chyldren, breake foorth and crye, thou that trauaylest not: For the desolate hath many mo chyldren, then she which hath an husbande. 28 But brethren, we are after Isaac the chyldren of promise. 29 But as then he that was borne after the fleshe, persecuted hym that was borne after the spirite: euen so is it now. 30 Neuerthelesse, what saith the scripture? put away the bondwoman and her sonne: For the sonne of the bondwoman, shall not be heire with the sonne of the free woman. 31 So then brethren, we are not chyldren of the bonde woman, but of the free.