John 8:42

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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.›

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Εἶπεν αὐτοῖς ὁ Ἰησοῦς, Εἰ ὁ Θεὸς Πατὴρ ὑμῶν ἦν, ἠγαπᾶτε ἂν ἐμέ: ἐγὼ γὰρ ἐκ τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐξῆλθον καὶ ἥκω· οὐδὲ γὰρ ἀπʼ ἐμαυτοῦ ἐλήλυθα, ἀλλʼ ἐκεῖνός με ἀπέστειλεν.

Transliteration

Eipen to-them the Iēsous, If the Theos Patēr of-you ēn, ēgapate an me: I for from the Theou exēlthon kai hēkō; neither for from emautou elēlytha, but ekeinos me apesteilen.

Grammar Details

• *Eipen*: aorist active indicative, 3rd person singular - said/spoke
• *Iēsous*: nominative masculine singular - Jesus
• *Theos*: nominative masculine singular - God
• *Patēr*: nominative masculine singular - Father
• *ēn*: imperfect active indicative, 3rd person singular - was
• *ēgapate*: imperfect active indicative, 2nd person plural - you were loving
• *an*: modal particle - would/might [contrary-to-fact condition]
• *gar*: postpositive conjunction - for/because
• *Theou*: genitive masculine singular - of God
• *exēlthon*: aorist active indicative, 1st person singular - I came out/forth
• *hēkō*: present active indicative, 1st person singular - I have come/am present
• *oude*: negative conjunction - neither/nor/not even
• *emautou*: reflexive pronoun, genitive masculine singular - myself
• *elēlytha*: perfect active indicative, 1st person singular - I have come
• *ekeinos*: demonstrative pronoun, nominative masculine singular - that one/he
• *apesteilen*: aorist active indicative, 3rd person singular - sent/dispatched

Word Meanings

• *ēgapate an*: would love/would have loved [contrary-to-fact condition]
• *exēlthon*: came out/proceeded from/departed from
• *hēkō*: have come/am present/have arrived
• *elēlytha*: have come/have arrived [completed action with continuing results]
• *ekeinos*: that one/he [referring to God the Father]
• *apesteilen*: sent/dispatched/commissioned

Referenced Verses

• 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 12:49 : 49 ‹For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.›
• 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 3:17 : 17 ‹For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.›
• John 17:25 : 25 ‹O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.›
• 1 Cor 16:22 : 22 If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha.
• Gal 4:4 : 4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
• 1 John 4:9-9 : 9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. 10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins.
• 1 John 4:14 : 14 ¶ And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son [to be] the Saviour of the world.
• 1 John 5:1-2 : 1 ¶ Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him. 2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
• Rev 22:1 : 1 ¶ And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
• John 5:23 : 23 ‹That all› [men] ‹should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.›
• John 5:43 : 43 ‹I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.›
• John 7:28-29 : 28 Then cried Jesus in the temple as he taught, saying, ‹Ye both know me, and ye know whence I am: and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye know not.› 29 ‹But I know him: for I am from him, and he hath sent me.›
• John 15:23-24 : 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.›
• John 16:27-28 : 27 ‹For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.› 28 ¶ ‹I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.›
• Mal 1:6 : 6 ¶ A son honoureth [his] father, and a servant his master: if then I [be] a father, where [is] mine honour? and if I [be] a master, where [is] my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?
• 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.