John 5:30

Authorized King James Version (1611)

‹I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.›

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Οὐ δύναμαι ἐγὼ ποιεῖν ἀπʼ ἐμαυτοῦ οὐδέν: καθὼς ἀκούω, κρίνω: καὶ ἡ κρίσις ἡ ἐμὴ δικαία ἐστίν· ὅτι οὐ ζητῶ τὸ θέλημα τὸ ἐμὸν, ἀλλὰ τὸ θέλημα τοῦ πέμψαντός με Πατρός.

Transliteration

Not dynamai I poiein from emautou ouden: just as akouō, krinō: and the krisis the emē dikaia estin; because not zētō the thelēma the emon, but the thelēma of the pempsantos me Patros.

Grammar Details

• *Ou dynamai*: present middle indicative, 1st singular of *dynamai* - I am not able
• *egō*: personal pronoun, nominative, 1st singular - I
• *poiein*: present active infinitive of *poieō* - to do
• *ap' emautou*: prepositional phrase - from myself
• *ouden*: adjective, accusative, neuter, singular - nothing
• *kathōs*: comparative conjunction - just as/even as
• *akouō*: present active indicative, 1st singular of *akouō* - I hear
• *krinō*: present active indicative, 1st singular of *krinō* - I judge
• *krisis*: noun, nominative, feminine, singular - judgment
• *emē*: possessive adjective, nominative, feminine, singular - my
• *dikaia*: adjective, nominative, feminine, singular - righteous/just
• *estin*: present active indicative, 3rd singular of *eimi* - is
• *zētō*: present active indicative, 1st singular of *zēteō* - I seek
• *thelēma*: noun, accusative, neuter, singular - will
• *emon*: possessive adjective, accusative, neuter, singular - my/mine
• *pempsantos*: aorist active participle, genitive, masculine, singular - having sent
• *me*: personal pronoun, accusative, 1st singular - me
• *Patros*: noun, genitive, masculine, singular - Father

Word Meanings

• *dynamai*: am able/can/have power
• *poiein*: to do/to perform
• *akouō*: I hear/I listen
• *krinō*: I judge/I decide
• *krisis emē dikaia*: my judgment is just/my decision is righteous
• *zētō*: I seek/I am looking for
• *thelēma*: will/desire/purpose
• *pempsantos*: having sent/who sent

Referenced Verses

• John 4:34 : 34 Jesus saith unto them, ‹My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.›
• John 5:19 : 19 Then answered Jesus and said unto them, ‹Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.›
• John 6:38 : 38 ‹For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.›
• Matt 26:39 : 39 And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, ‹O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou› [wilt].
• John 8:28 : 28 Then said Jesus unto them, ‹When ye have lifted up the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am› [he], ‹and› [that] ‹I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I speak these things.›
• Rom 15:3 : 3 For even Christ pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me.
• John 14:10 : 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 8:15-16 : 15 ‹Ye judge after the flesh; I judge no man.› 16 ‹And yet if I judge, my judgment is true: for I am not alone, but I and the Father that sent me.›
• Gen 18:25 : 25 That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?
• Ps 40:7-8 : 7 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book [it is] written of me, 8 I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law [is] within my heart.
• Isa 11:3-4 : 3 And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears: 4 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
• Hos 10:7-9 : 7 [As for] Samaria, her king is cut off as the foam upon the water. 8 The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us. 9 ¶ O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they stood: the battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not overtake them. 10 [It is] in my desire that I should chastise them; and the people shall be gathered against them, when they shall bind themselves in their two furrows.
• Ps 96:13 : 13 Before the LORD: for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.
• John 17:4 : 4 ‹I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.›
• John 18:11 : 11 Then said Jesus unto Peter, ‹Put up thy sword into the sheath: the cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?›
• Rom 2:2 : 2 But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things.
• Rom 2:5 : 5 But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;
• John 8:42 : 42 Jesus said unto them, ‹If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.›
• John 8:50 : 50 ‹And I seek not mine own glory: there is one that seeketh and judgeth.›