John 14:7

Authorized King James Version (1611)

‹If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.›

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Εἰ ἐγνώκειτέ με, καὶ τὸν Πατέρα μου ἐγνώκειτε ἂν: καὶ ἀπʼ ἄρτι γινώσκετε αὐτόν, καὶ ἑωράκατε αὐτόν.

Transliteration

If egnōkeite me, also the Patera of me egnōkeite an: and from arti ginōskete auton, and heōrakate auton.

Grammar Details

• *egnōkeite*: pluperfect indicative active, 2nd person plural - you had known
• *me*: accusative, 1st person singular pronoun - me
• *Patera*: accusative, masculine, singular - Father
• *an*: particle indicating contingency - would
• *arti*: adverb - now/at this moment
• *ginōskete*: present indicative active, 2nd person plural - you know
• *auton*: accusative, masculine, singular pronoun - him
• *heōrakate*: perfect indicative active, 2nd person plural - you have seen
• μου: genitive, 1st person singular pronoun - of me/my

Word Meanings

• *ginōskete*: know/understand/perceive
• *heōrakate*: have seen/have perceived/have experienced

Referenced Verses

• John 8:19 : 19 Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, ‹Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also.›
• Luke 10:22 : 22 ‹All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and› [he] ‹to whom the Son will reveal› [him].
• Col 1:15-17 : 15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: 16 For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether [they be] thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: 17 And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
• Col 2:2-3 : 2 That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ; 3 In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
• John 1:18 : 18 No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared [him].
• John 6:46 : 46 ‹Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of God, he hath seen the Father.›
• Matt 11:27 : 27 ‹All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and› [he] ‹to whomsoever the Son will reveal› [him].
• 1 John 2:13 : 13 I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him [that is] from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father.
• John 14:9-9 : 9 Jesus saith unto him, ‹Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou› [then], ‹Shew us the Father?› 10 ‹Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.›
• John 14:16-20 : 16 ‹And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;› 17 [Even] ‹the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.› 18 ¶ ‹I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.› 19 ‹Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.› 20 ‹At that day ye shall know that I› [am] ‹in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.›
• John 15:24 : 24 ‹If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.›
• John 16:3 : 3 ‹And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.›
• John 16:13-16 : 13 ‹Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear,› [that] ‹shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.› 14 ‹He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew› [it] ‹unto you.› 15 ‹All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew› [it] ‹unto you.› 16 ¶ ‹A little while, and ye shall not see me: and again, a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go to the Father.›
• John 17:3 : 3 ‹And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.›
• John 17:6 : 6 ¶ ‹I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.›
• John 17:8 : 8 ‹For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received› [them], ‹and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.›
• John 17:21 : 21 ‹That they all may be one; as thou, Father,› [art] ‹in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.›
• John 17:23 : 23 ‹I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.›
• John 17:26 : 26 ‹And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare› [it]: ‹that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.›
• 2 Cor 4:6 : 6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to [give] the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
• Heb 1:3 : 3 Who being the brightness of [his] glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;