John 8:23

Authorized King James Version (1611)

And he said unto them, ‹Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world.›

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ εἴπεν αὐτοῖς, Ὑμεῖς ἐκ τῶν κάτω ἐστέ· ἐγὼ ἐκ τῶν ἄνω εἰμί: ὑμεῖς ἐκ τοῦ κόσμου τούτου ἐστέ· ἐγὼ οὐκ εἰμὶ ἐκ τοῦ κόσμου τούτου.

Transliteration

And eipen to-them, You from the katō este; I from the anō eimi: you from the kosmou toutou este; I not eimi from the kosmou toutou.

Grammar Details

• *eipen*: aorist active indicative, 3rd person singular - said/spoke [completed action]
• *este*: present active indicative, 2nd person plural - are/exist
• *katō*: adverb with article - below/beneath/down
• *anō*: adverb with article - above/upward
• *eimi*: present active indicative, 1st person singular - am/exist
• *kosmou toutou*: genitive masculine singular - of this world/order
• *ouk*: negative particle - not

Word Meanings

• *katō*: below/beneath/things below/earthly realm
• *anō*: above/upward/things above/heavenly realm
• *kosmou*: world/ordered system/universe/humanity/earth

Referenced Verses

• John 3:31 : 31 He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all.
• John 17:14 : 14 ‹I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.›
• 1 John 2:15-16 : 15 Love not the world, neither the things [that are] in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that [is] in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
• John 17:16 : 16 ‹They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.›
• John 1:14 : 14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
• 1 John 4:5-6 : 5 They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them. 6 We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
• 1 John 5:19-20 : 19 [And] we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness. 20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, [even] in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
• Jas 3:15-17 : 15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but [is] earthly, sensual, devilish. 16 For where envying and strife [is], there [is] confusion and every evil work. 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, [and] easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
• Jas 4:4 : 4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
• Ps 17:4 : 4 Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept [me from] the paths of the destroyer.
• Phil 3:19-21 : 19 Whose end [is] destruction, whose God [is their] belly, and [whose] glory [is] in their shame, who mind earthly things.) 20 For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: 21 Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
• John 3:13 : 13 ‹And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven,› [even] ‹the Son of man which is in heaven.›
• John 15:18-19 : 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.›
• Rom 8:7-8 : 7 Because the carnal mind [is] enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. 8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
• 1 Cor 15:47-48 : 47 The first man [is] of the earth, earthy: the second man [is] the Lord from heaven. 48 As [is] the earthy, such [are] they also that are earthy: and as [is] the heavenly, such [are] they also that are heavenly.