John 13:8

Geneva Bible (1560)

Peter said vnto him, Thou shalt neuer wash my feete. Iesus answered him, If I wash thee not, thou shalt haue no part with me.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Λέγει αὐτῷ Πέτρος, Οὐ μὴ νίψῃς τοὺς πόδας μου εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα. Ἀπεκρίθη αὐτῷ ὁ Ἰησοῦς, Ἐὰν μὴ νίψω σε, οὐκ ἔχεις μέρος μετʼ ἐμοῦ.

Transliteration

Legei to him Petros, Not not nipsēs the podas of me unto the aiōna. Apekrithē to him the Iēsous, If not nipsō you, not echeis meros with me.

Grammar Details

• *Legei*: present active indicative, 3rd singular - says
• *Petros*: nominative, masculine, singular - Peter
• *nipsēs*: aorist active subjunctive, 2nd singular - you might wash
• *podas*: accusative, masculine, plural - feet
• *aiōna*: accusative, masculine, singular - age/eternity
• *Apekrithē*: aorist passive indicative, 3rd singular - answered/replied
• *Iēsous*: nominative, masculine, singular - Jesus
• *nipsō*: aorist active subjunctive, 1st singular - I might wash
• *echeis*: present active indicative, 2nd singular - you have
• *meros*: accusative, neuter, singular - part/share

Word Meanings

• *Legei*: says/speaks/tells
• *nipsēs*: wash/cleanse
• *podas*: feet
• *aiōna*: age/eternity/forever
• *Apekrithē*: answered/replied/responded
• *nipsō*: wash/cleanse
• *echeis*: have/possess/hold
• *meros*: part/share/portion

Referenced Verses

• 1 Cor 6:11 : 11 And such were some of you: but yee are washed, but yee are sanctified, but yee are iustified in the Name of the Lorde Iesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
• Titus 3:5 : 5 Not by the woorkes of righteousnesse, which we had done, but according to his mercie he saued vs, by the washing of the newe birth, and the renewing of the holy Ghost,
• Heb 10:22 : 22 Let vs drawe neere with a true heart in assurance of faith, our hearts being pure from an euill conscience,
• Eph 5:26 : 26 That hee might sanctifie it, and clense it by the washing of water through the worde,
• Col 2:18 : 18 Let no man at his pleasure beare rule ouer you by humblenesse of minde, and worshipping of Angels, aduauncing himselfe in those thinges which hee neuer sawe, rashly puft vp with his fleshly minde,
• Ezek 36:25 : 25 Then wil I powre cleane water vpon you, and ye shalbe cleane: yea, from all your filthines, and from all your idoles wil I clense you.
• Matt 16:22 : 22 Then Peter tooke him aside, and began to rebuke him, saying, Master, pitie thy selfe: this shall not be vnto thee.
• Acts 22:16 : 16 Now therefore why tariest thou? Arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sinnes, in calling on the Name of the Lord.
• Matt 21:29 : 29 But he answered, and said, I will not: yet afterward he repented himselfe, and went.
• Matt 26:33 : 33 But Peter aunswered, and sayde vnto him, Though that al men should be offended by thee, yet will I neuer be offended.
• Matt 26:35 : 35 Peter saide vnto him, Though I should die with thee, I will in no case denie thee. Likewise also sayd all the disciples.
• John 3:5 : 5 Iesus answered, Verely, verely I say vnto thee, except that a man be borne of water and of the Spirite, hee can not enter into the kingdome of God.
• John 13:6 : 6 Then came he to Simon Peter, who sayd to him, Lord, doest thou wash my feete?
• Zech 13:1 : 1 In that day there shall be a fountaine opened to the house of Dauid, and to the inhabitants of Ierusalem, for sinne and for vncleannesse.
• Gen 42:38 : 38 But he sayd, My sonne shall not go downe with you: for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if death come vnto him by the way which ye goe, then ye shall bring my gray head with sorow vnto the graue.
• Isa 4:4 : 4 When the Lord shall wash the filthines of the daughters of Zion, and purge the blood of Ierusalem out of the middes thereof by the spirite of iudgement, and by the spirit of burning.
• Ezek 16:4-9 : 4 And in thy natiuitie whe thou wast borne, thy nauell was not cut: thou wast not washed in water to soften thee: thou wast not salted with salt, nor swadled in cloutes. 5 None eye pitied thee to do any of these vnto thee, for to haue compassion vpon thee, but thou wast cast out in the open fielde to the contempt of thy person in ye day that thou wast borne. 6 And when I passed by thee, I saw thee polluted in thine owne blood, and I said vnto thee, whe thou wast in thy blood, Thou shalt liue: euen when thou wast in thy blood, I saide vnto thee, Thou shalt liue. 7 I haue caused thee to multiplie as the bud of the fielde, and thou hast increased and waxen great, and thou hast gotten excellent ornaments: thy breastes are facioned, thine heare is growen, where as thou wast naked and bare. 8 Nowe when I passed by thee, and looked vpon thee, beholde, thy time was as the time of loue, and I spred my skirtes ouer thee, and couered thy filthines: yea, I sware vnto thee, and entred into a couenant with thee, saith the Lorde God, and thou becamest mine. 9 Then washed I thee with water: yea, I washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oyle.
• Col 2:23 : 23 Which thinges haue in deede a shewe of wisdome, in voluntarie religion and humblenesse of minde, and in not sparing the body, which are thinges of no valewe, sith they perteine to the filling of the flesh.
• Rev 1:5 : 5 And from Iesus Christ, which is that faithful witnes, and that first begotten of the dead, & that Prince of the Kings of the earth, vnto him that loued vs, & washed vs from our sinnes in his blood,
• Rev 7:14 : 14 And I saide vnto him, Lorde, thou knowest; he saide to me, These are they, which came out of great tribulation, and haue washed their long robes, and haue made their long robes white in the blood of the Lambe.
• Heb 9:22-23 : 22 And almost all things are by the Law purged with blood, and without sheading of blood is no remission. 23 It was then necessary, that the similitudes of heauenly things should be purified with such things: but the heauenly things them selues are purified with better sacrifices then are these.
• Heb 10:4-9 : 4 For it is vnpossible that the blood of bulles and goates should take away sinnes. 5 Wherefore when he commeth into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offring thou wouldest not: but a body hast thou ordeined me. 6 In burnt offerings, and sinne offrings thou hast had no pleasure. 7 Then I sayd, Lo, I come (In the beginning of the booke it is written of me) that I should doe thy will, O God. 8 Aboue, when he sayd, Sacrifice and offring, and burnt offrings, and sinne offrings thou wouldest not haue, neither hadst pleasure therein (which are offered by the Lawe) 9 Then sayd he, Lo, I come to doe thy wil, O God, he taketh away the first, that he may stablish the second. 10 By the which wil we are sanctified, euen by the offring of the body of Iesus Christ once made.