John 5:21

Authorized King James Version (1611)

‹For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth› [them]; ‹even so the Son quickeneth whom he will.›

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὥσπερ γὰρ ὁ Πατὴρ ἐγείρει τοὺς νεκροὺς, καὶ ζωοποιεῖ· οὕτως καὶ ὁ Υἱὸς οὓς θέλει ζωοποιεῖ.

Transliteration

Just as for the Patēr egeirei the nekrous, and zōopoiei; thus also the Huios whom he thelei zōopoiei.

Grammar Details

• *Hōsper*: adverb - just as/as
• *gar*: postpositive conjunction - for
• *Patēr*: noun, nominative, masculine, singular - Father
• *egeirei*: present active indicative, 3rd singular of *egeirō* - raises
• *nekrous*: adjective used as noun, accusative, masculine, plural - dead ones
• *zōopoiei*: present active indicative, 3rd singular of *zōopoieō* - makes alive
• *houtōs*: adverb - thus/so/in this manner
• *kai*: conjunction - also/even
• *Huios*: noun, nominative, masculine, singular - Son
• *hous*: relative pronoun, accusative, masculine, plural - whom
• *thelei*: present active indicative, 3rd singular of *thelō* - he wills/wishes

Word Meanings

• *egeirei*: raises/raises up/awakens
• *nekrous*: dead ones/dead people/those who have died
• *zōopoiei*: makes alive/gives life/quickens
• *thelei*: wills/desires/wishes/chooses

Referenced Verses

• John 11:25 : 25 Jesus said unto her, ‹I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:›
• Rom 8:11 : 11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
• Luke 7:14-15 : 14 And he came and touched the bier: and they that bare [him] stood still. And he said, ‹Young man, I say unto thee, Arise.› 15 And he that was dead sat up, and began to speak. And he delivered him to his mother.
• Luke 8:54-55 : 54 And he put them all out, and took her by the hand, and called, saying, ‹Maid, arise.› 55 And her spirit came again, and she arose straightway: and he commanded to give her meat.
• John 11:43-44 : 43 And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, ‹Lazarus, come forth.› 44 And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, ‹Loose him, and let him go.›
• Deut 32:39 : 39 ¶ See now that I, [even] I, [am] he, and [there is] no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither [is there any] that can deliver out of my hand.
• 1 Kgs 17:21 : 21 And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried unto the LORD, and said, O LORD my God, I pray thee, let this child's soul come into him again.
• 2 Kgs 4:32-35 : 32 And when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead, [and] laid upon his bed. 33 He went in therefore, and shut the door upon them twain, and prayed unto the LORD. 34 And he went up, and lay upon the child, and put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands: and he stretched himself upon the child; and the flesh of the child waxed warm. 35 Then he returned, and walked in the house to and fro; and went up, and stretched himself upon him: and the child sneezed seven times, and the child opened his eyes.
• 2 Kgs 5:7 : 7 And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, [Am] I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy? wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me.
• John 17:2 : 2 ‹As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.›
• Acts 26:8 : 8 Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?
• Rom 4:17-19 : 17 ¶ (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, [even] God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were. 18 Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be. 19 And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb: