John 14:28

Coverdale Bible (1535)

Ye haue herde, that I sayde vnto you: I go, & come agayne vnto you. Yf ye loued me, ye wolde reioyse, because I saide, I go to the father: for ye father is greater the I.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἠκούσατε ὅτι ἐγὼ εἶπον ὑμῖν, Ὑπάγω, καὶ ἔρχομαι πρὸς ὑμᾶς. Εἰ ἠγαπᾶτέ με, ἐχάρητε ἄν, ὅτι εἶπον, Πορεύομαι πρὸς τὸν Πατέρα: ὅτι ὁ Πατήρ μου μείζων μού ἐστιν.

Transliteration

Ēkousate hoti egō eipon hymin, Hypagō, and erchomai pros hymas. If ēgapate me, echarēte an, because eipon, Poreuomai pros ton Patera: because the Patēr of me meizōn mou estin.

Grammar Details

• *Ēkousate*: aorist indicative active, 2nd person plural - you heard
• *hoti*: conjunction - that
• *egō*: nominative, 1st person singular pronoun, emphatic - I
• *eipon*: aorist indicative active, 1st person singular - I said
• *hymin*: dative, 2nd person plural pronoun - to you
• *Hypagō*: present indicative active, 1st person singular - I go away
• *erchomai*: present indicative middle, 1st person singular - I come
• *pros hymas*: preposition + accusative pronoun - to you
• *ēgapate*: imperfect indicative active, 2nd person plural - you were loving
• *me*: accusative, 1st person singular pronoun - me
• *echarēte*: aorist indicative passive, 2nd person plural - you would have rejoiced
• *an*: particle indicating contingency - would
• *Poreuomai*: present indicative middle, 1st person singular - I go
• *pros ton Patera*: preposition + accusative - to the Father
• *Patēr*: nominative, masculine, singular - Father
• *mou*: genitive, 1st person singular pronoun - my/of me
• *meizōn*: nominative, masculine, singular comparative - greater
• *estin*: present indicative, 3rd person singular - is

Word Meanings

• *Ēkousate*: heard/listened to/understood
• *Hypagō*: go away/depart/withdraw
• *erchomai*: come/arrive/return
• *ēgapate*: were loving/were cherishing
• *echarēte*: would have rejoiced/would have been glad
• *Poreuomai*: go/journey/proceed
• *meizōn*: greater/larger/more important

Referenced Verses

• John 14:18 : 18 I wil not leaue you cofortles, I come vnto you.
• John 14:2-4 : 2 In my fathers house are many dwellinges. Yf it were not so, I wolde haue tolde you: I go to prepare the place for you. 3 And though I go to prepare the place for you, yet wil I come agayne, and receaue you vnto myself, yt ye maye be where I am. 4 And whither I go, ye knowe, and the waye knowe ye also.
• John 14:12 : 12 Verely verely I saye vnto you: He that beleueth on me, shal do the workes that I do, and shal do greater then these: for I go to the father.
• John 5:18 : 18 Therfore sought the Iewes the more to slaye hi: because he brake not onely ye Sabbath, but saide also, that God was his father, and made him self equall with God.
• John 10:29-30 : 29 My father which gaue the me, is greater the all: & noman is able to plucke them out of my fathers hande. 30 I and the father are one.
• Ps 47:5-7 : 5 Sela. God is gone vp wt a mery noyse, & the LORDE wt the sownde of the tropet. 6 O synge prayses, synge prayses vnto God: O synge prayses, synge prayses vnto oure kynge. 7 For God is kynge of all the earth, O synge prayses vnto him with vnderstondinge.
• John 16:16-22 : 16 After a litle whyle, and ye shal not se me: and agayne after a litle whyle, and ye shal se me: for I go to the father. 17 The saide some of his disciples amonge themselues: What is this that he sayeth vnto vs, After a litle whyle, and ye shal not se me: & agayne after a litle whyle, & ye shal se me: for I go to the father? 18 Then sayde they: What is this, that he sayeth: After a litle whyle? We can not tell what he sayeth. 19 Then perceaued Iesus that they wolde axe him, and he sayde vnto them: Ye enquyre of this amonge youre selues, that I sayde: After a litle whyle, and ye shal not se me: & agayne after a litle whyle, and ye shal se me. 20 Verely verely I saye vnto you: Ye shal wepe and lamente, but the worlde shal reioyse: Ye shal be sory, but youre sorowe shal be turned in to ioye. 21 A woman whan she trauayleth, hath sorowe, for hir houre is come. But whan she is delyuered of the childe, she thinketh nomore of the anguyshe, for ioye that a man is borne in to the worlde. 22 And now haue ye sorowe also: but I wil se you agayne, and youre hert shal reioyse, and youre ioye shal noman take from you.
• John 20:17 : 17 Iesus sayde vnto her: Touche me not, for I am not yet ascended vnto my father. But go thou yi waye vnto my brethre & saye vnto the: I ascede vp vnto my father and yor father: to my God, & yor God.
• John 20:21 : 21 The sayde Iesus vnto the agayne: Peace be with you. Like as my father sent me, eue so sede I you.
• 1 Cor 15:24-28 : 24 Then the ende, wha he shal delyuer vp the kyngdome vnto God the father, whan he shal put downe all rule, and all superiorite, & power. 25 For he must raygne, tyll he haue put all his enemies vnder his fete. 26 The last enemye that shal be destroyed, is death, 27 for he hath put all thinges vnder his fete. But wha he sayeth, that all thinges are put vnder him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which put all thinges vnder him. 28 Whan all thinges shalbe subdued vnto him, then shal the sonne himselfe also be subiecte vnto him, which put all thinges vnder him, that God maye be all in all.
• Heb 1:2-3 : 2 but in these last dayes he hath spoken vnto vs by his sonne, whom he hath made heyre of all thinges, by whom also he made the worlde. 3 Which (sonne) beynge the brightnes of his glory, & the very ymage of his substaunce, bearinge vp all thinges with the worde of his power, hath in his owne personne pourged oure synnes, and is set on the righte hande of the maiestie on hye:
• Heb 2:9-9 : 9 Neuertheles now se we not all thinges yet subdued vnto him. But him, which for a litle season was made lesse then the angels, we se that it is Iesus: which is crowned with honoure and glory for the sufferynge of death, that he by the grace of God, shulde taist of death for all men. 10 For it became him, for whom are all thinges, and by who are all thinges (after yt he had broughte many children vnto glory) that he shulde make the LORDE of their saluacion perfecte thorow sufferynge, 11 for so moch as they all come of one, both he that sanctifieth; & they which are sanctified.For the which causes sake, he is not ashamed to call them brethren, 12 sayenge: I will declare thy name vnto my brethren, and in the myddes of the cogregacion wil I prayse the. 13 And agayne: I wyl put my trust in him. And agayne: beholde, here am I and my children, which God hath geuen me. 14 For as moch then as the children haue flesh and bloude. he also himselfe likewyse toke parte with them, yt he thorow death, mighte take awaye ye power of him, which had lordshippe ouer death, that is to saye, ye deuell: 15 & that he mighte delyuer the which thorow feare of death were all their life tyme in dauger of bodage.
• 1 Pet 1:8 : 8 whom ye haue not sene, and yet loue him: in whom now ye beleue, though ye se him not. Euen so shal ye reioyce also with vnoutspeakable and glorious ioye,
• Rev 1:11 : 11 sayenge: I am Alpha and Omega, the fyrst and ye laste. That thou seist, write in a boke, and sende it vnto the cogregacions which are in Asia, vnto Ephesus and vnto Smyrna, and vnto Pargamos, and vnto Thiatira, and vnto Sardis, and vnto Philadelphia, and vnto Laodicia.
• Rev 1:17-18 : 17 And when I sawe him, I fell at his fete, euen as deed. And he layde his right honde vpon me, sayenge vnto me: feare not. I am the fyrst, and the laste, 18 and am alyue, and was deed. And beholde, I am alyue for euer more and haue the kayes of hell & of deth.
• Heb 3:1-4 : 1 Wherfore holy brethren, ye that are partakers of the heauely callynge, consyder the Embasseatour and hye prest of or profession, Christ Iesus, 2 which is faithfull to him that ordeyned him, euen as was Moses in all his house. 3 But this man is worthy of greater honoure then moses, in as moch as he which prepareth the house, hath greater honoure in it, then the house it selfe. 4 For euery house is prepared of some ma: but he that ordeyned all thinges, is God.
• Phil 2:6-9 : 6 which beyinge in the shappe of God, thought it not robbery to be equall with God, 7 but made him selfe of no reputacion, and toke vpon him the shappe of a seruaunt, became like another man, 8 and was founde in his apparell as a man: he humbled himselfe, and became obedient vnto the death, euen vnto the death of the crosse. 9 Therfore hath God also exalted him, and geuen him a name, which is aboue all names, 10 that in the name of Iesus euery kne shulde bowe, both of thinges in heauen of thinges vpo earth, and of thinges vnder the earth, 11 and that all tunges shulde confesse, that Iesus Christ is the LORDE vnto the prayse of God the father.
• 1 Cor 11:3 : 3 But I certifye you, that Christ is the heade of euery man. As for ye man, he is the heade of ye woman, but God is Christes heade.
• Ps 68:9 : 9 Thou o God sendest a gracious rayne vpon thyne enheritauce, & refreshest it, when it is drye.
• Ps 68:18 : 18 Thou art gone vp an hye, thou hast led captyuite captyue, & receaued giftes for me: Yee euen for thy enemies, that they might dwell with the LORDE God.
• Isa 42:1 : 1 Beholde now therfore, this is my seruaunt whom I will kepe to my self: my electe, In whom my soule shalbe pacified. I will geue him my sprete, that he maye shewe forth iudgment & equyte amonge the Gentiles.
• Isa 49:5-7 : 5 And now saieth the LORDE (eue he that fashioned me fro my mothers wombe to be his seruaute, that I maye bringe Iacob agayne vnto him: howbeit, Israel will not be gathered vnto hi agayne. In whose sight I am greate, which also is my LORDE, my God and my stregth) 6 Let it be but a smal thinge, that thou art my seruaunt, to set vp the kinreddes of Iacob, & to restore the destructio of Israel: yf I make the not also the light of the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my health vnto the ende of the worlde. 7 Morouer thus saieth the LORDE the aveger and holy one of Israel, because of the abhorringe and despisinge amonge the Gentiles, concernynge the seruaunt of all them yt beare rule: Kynges and prynces shal se, and arise and worshipe, because of the LORDE that he is faithfull: and because of the holy one of Israel, which hath chosen the.
• Isa 53:11 : 11 With trauayle and laboure of his soule, shal he optayne greate riches. My rightuous seruaunt shall with his wisdome iustifie & delyuer the multitude, for he shal beare awaye their synnes.
• Matt 12:18 : 18 Beholde, this is my seruaunt, whom I haue chosen: and my beloued, in whom my soule delyteth: I wil put my sprete vpon hi, and he shal shewe iudgment vnto the Heithe.
• John 10:38 : 38 but yf I do the, the (yf ye beleue not me) yet beleue ye workes, yt ye maye knowe & beleue, yt the father is in me, & I in ye father.
• John 13:16 : 16 Verely verely I saye vnto you: the seruaunt is not greater then his lorde, nether is the Apostell greater then he that sent him.
• John 16:7 : 7 Neuertheles I tell you the trueth, It is better for you yt I go awaye: For yf I go not awaye that comforter commeth not vnto you: but yf I departe, I wil sende hi vnto you.
• Luke 24:51-53 : 51 And it came to passe wha he blessed them, he departed from them, and was caried vp in to heauen. 52 And they worshipped him, and turned agayne to Ierusalem with greate ioye: 53 and were contynnally in ye teple, geuynge prayse and thankes vnto God. Amen.