John 7:28

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἔκραξεν οὖν ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ διδάσκων ὁ Ἰησοῦς, καὶ λέγων, Κἀμὲ οἴδατε, καὶ οἴδατε πόθεν εἰμί: καὶ ἀπʼ ἐμαυτοῦ οὐκ ἐλήλυθα, ἀλλʼ ἔστιν ἀληθινὸς ὁ πέμψας με, ὃν ὑμεῖς οὐκ οἴδατε.

Transliteration

Ekraxen oun in the hierō didaskōn the Iēsous, and legōn, Kame oidate, and oidate pothen eimi: and from emautou not elēlytha, all' estin alēthinos the one pempsas me, whom hymeis not oidate.

Grammar Details

• *Ekraxen*: aorist, indicative, active, 3rd singular - cried out/shouted
• *oun*: inferential particle - therefore/then/so
• *hierō*: dative, neuter, singular - temple/sanctuary
• *didaskōn*: present, participle, active, nominative, masculine, singular - teaching
• *Iēsous*: nominative, masculine, singular - Jesus
• *legōn*: present, participle, active, nominative, masculine, singular - saying
• *Kame*: contraction of *kai eme* - accusative, 1st person singular pronoun - me also/and me
• *oidate*: perfect, indicative, active, 2nd plural - you know/have known
• *pothen*: adverb of place - from where/whence
• *eimi*: present, indicative, 1st singular - I am/exist
• *emautou*: genitive, masculine, singular, reflexive pronoun - myself
• *elēlytha*: perfect, indicative, active, 1st singular - I have come
• *all'*: contraction of *alla* - but/however
• *estin*: present, indicative, 3rd singular - is/exists
• *alēthinos*: nominative, masculine, singular - true/genuine
• *pempsas*: aorist, participle, active, nominative, masculine, singular - having sent
• *hymeis*: nominative, 2nd person plural pronoun - you (plural)

Word Meanings

• *Ekraxen*: cried out/shouted/exclaimed
• *oun*: therefore/then/so/consequently
• *hierō*: temple/sanctuary
• *didaskōn*: teaching/instructing
• *Iēsous*: Jesus (proper name)
• *legōn*: saying/speaking
• *oidate*: you know/have knowledge of (perfect tense)
• *pothen*: from where/whence/origin
• *emautou*: myself/my own accord
• *elēlytha*: have come/have arrived (perfect tense)
• *alēthinos*: true/genuine/real/authentic
• *pempsas*: having sent/one who sent

Referenced Verses

• 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 7:14 : 14 Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught.
• John 8:19 : 19 Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also.
• John 8:26 : 26 I have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of 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 8:14 : 14 Jesus answered and said unto them, Though I bear record of myself, yet my record is true: for I know whence I came, and whither I go; but ye cannot tell whence I come, and whither I go.
• Jer 9:6 : 6 Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me, saith the LORD.
• Jer 31:34 : 34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
• Hos 4:1 : 1 Hear the word of the LORD, ye children of Israel: for the LORD hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.
• Hos 5:4 : 4 They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD.
• Hos 6:3-6 : 3 Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth. 4 O Ephraim, what shall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away. 5 Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth forth. 6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.
• Matt 2:23 : 23 And he came and dwelt in a city called Nazareth: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophets, He shall be called a Nazarene.
• Matt 11:27 : 27 All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
• Luke 2:4 : 4 And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem;(because he was of the house and lineage of David:)
• Luke 2:11 : 11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.
• Luke 2:39 : 39 And when they had performed all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city Nazareth.
• Luke 2:51 : 51 And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.
• Luke 10:22 : 22 All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him.
• John 1:46 : 46 And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come and see.
• John 3:2 : 2 The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.
• John 3:33 : 33 He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true.
• John 5:32 : 32 There is another that beareth witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true.
• John 8:54-55 : 54 Jesus answered, If I honour myself, my honour is nothing: it is my Father that honoureth me; of whom ye say, that he is your God: 55 Yet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying.
• John 10:36 : 36 Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?
• 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 14:31 : 31 But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.
• John 16:3 : 3 And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.
• John 17:3 : 3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
• John 17:25 : 25 {G2532} O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.
• Acts 17:23 : 23 For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
• Rom 1:28 : 28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
• Rom 3:4 : 4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
• 2 Cor 1:18 : 18 But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay.
• 2 Cor 4:6 : 6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
• Titus 1:2 : 2 In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
• Heb 6:18 : 18 That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
• 1 John 2:3-4 : 3 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. 4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
• 1 John 5:10 : 10 He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.
• John 8:16 : 16 And yet if I judge, my judgment is true: for I am not alone, but I and the Father that sent me.
• 1 Sam 2:12 : 12 Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the LORD.
• Ps 9:10 : 10 And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.
• Prov 2:3-5 : 3 Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding; 4 If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; 5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.