John 16:1

Authorized King James Version (1611)

¶ ‹These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended.›

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

¶Ταῦτα λελάληκα ὑμῖν, ἵνα μὴ σκανδαλισθῆτε.

Transliteration

Tauta lelalēka to you, hina not skandalisthēte.

Grammar Details

• *Tauta*: demonstrative pronoun, accusative, neuter, plural - these things
• *lelalēka*: perfect active indicative, 1st person singular - I have spoken/said (completed action with continuing results)
• ὑμῖν: personal pronoun, dative, plural - to you
• *hina*: subordinating conjunction introducing purpose clause - so that/in order that
• μὴ: negative particle - not
• *skandalisthēte*: aorist passive subjunctive, 2nd person plural - you might be caused to stumble/fall away

Word Meanings

• *Tauta*: these things/these matters
• *lelalēka*: I have spoken/I have told (with emphasis on completed action with continuing relevance)
• *skandalisthēte*: be caused to stumble/fall away/be offended/be led into sin

Referenced Verses

• Matt 13:21 : 21 ‹Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.›
• Matt 26:31-33 : 31 ¶ Then saith Jesus unto them, ‹All ye shall be offended because of me this night: for it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad.› 32 ‹But after I am risen again, I will go before you into Galilee.› 33 Peter answered and said unto him, Though all [men] shall be offended because of thee, [yet] will I never be offended.
• John 15:18-27 : 18 ¶ ‹If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before› [it hated] ‹you.› 19 ‹If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.› 20 ‹Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.› 21 ‹But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.› 22 ‹If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloke for their sin.› 23 ‹He that hateth me hateth my Father also.› 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.› 25 ‹But› [this cometh to pass], ‹that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.› 26 ¶ ‹But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father,› [even] ‹the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:› 27 ‹And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.›
• Rom 14:21 : 21 [It is] good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor [any thing] whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
• Phil 1:10 : 10 That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ;
• 1 Pet 2:8 : 8 And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, [even to them] which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.
• John 16:4 : 4 ‹But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them. And these things I said not unto you at the beginning, because I was with you.›
• Matt 11:6 : 6 ‹And blessed is› [he], ‹whosoever shall not be offended in me.›
• Matt 24:10 : 10 ‹And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.›
• Matt 13:57 : 57 And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, ‹A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house.›
• John 15:11 : 11 ‹These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and› [that] ‹your joy might be full.›