John 8:38

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἐγὼ ὃ ἑώρακα παρὰ τῷ Πατρί μου λαλῶ: καὶ ὑμεῖς οὖν ὃ ἑωράκατε παρὰ τῷ πατρὶ ὑμῶν ποιεῖτε.

Transliteration

I what heōraka para tō Patri of-me lalō: and you oun what heōrakate para tō patri of-you poieite.

Grammar Details

*heōraka*: perfect active indicative, 1st person singular - I have seen
*para*: preposition + dative - with/beside/from
*tō Patri*: dative masculine singular - the Father
*lalō*: present active indicative, 1st person singular - I speak/tell
*oun*: inferential particle - therefore/then/accordingly
*heōrakate*: perfect active indicative, 2nd person plural - you have seen
*tō patri*: dative masculine singular - the father
*poieite*: present active indicative, 2nd person plural - you do/practice

Word Meanings

*heōraka*: have seen/have observed/have perceived
*para*: with/beside/from/in the presence of
*lalō*: speak/tell/say/proclaim
*heōrakate*: have seen/have observed/have learned
*patri*: father [with distinction in capitalization between God as Father and the devil as father]
*poieite*: do/practice/perform/carry out

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

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 8:41 : 41 Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
John 8:44 : 44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
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 14:24 : 24 He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me.
John 5:30 : 30 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.
John 3:32 : 32 And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth; and no man receiveth his testimony.
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 12:49-50 : 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. 50 And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.
1 John 3:8-9 : 8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. 9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. 10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
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.
Matt 3:7 : 7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

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