John 11:42

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

I knew that you always listen to me, but I said this for the sake of the crowd standing around here, that they may believe that you sent me.”

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἐγὼ δὲ ᾔδειν ὅτι πάντοτέ μου ἀκούεις: ἀλλὰ διὰ τὸν ὄχλον τὸν περιεστῶτα εἶπον, ἵνα πιστεύσωσιν ὅτι σύ με ἀπέστειλας.

Transliteration

Egō de ēdein that pantote me you akoueis: alla because of the ochlon the periestōta I eipon, that they may pisteusōsin that you me apesteilas.

Grammar Details

• *Egō*: personal pronoun, nominative, 1st singular - I
• *de*: conjunction - and/but
• *ēdein*: pluperfect active indicative, 1st singular - knew
• *pantote*: adverb - always
• *akoueis*: present active indicative, 2nd singular - hear
• *alla*: conjunction - but
• *ochlon*: accusative, masculine, singular - crowd
• *periestōta*: perfect active participle, accusative, masculine, singular - standing around
• *eipon*: aorist active indicative, 1st singular - said
• *pisteusōsin*: aorist active subjunctive, 3rd plural - might believe
• *apesteilas*: aorist active indicative, 2nd singular - sent

Word Meanings

• *ēdein*: knew/was aware
• *pantote*: always/at all times
• *akoueis*: hear/listen to
• *alla*: but/yet/however
• *ochlon*: crowd/multitude
• *periestōta*: standing around/surrounding
• *eipon*: said/spoke
• *pisteusōsin*: might believe/may believe
• *apesteilas*: sent/dispatched

Referenced Verses

• John 3:17 : 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world should be saved through him.
• John 17:21 : 21 that they will all be one, just as you, Father, are in me and I am in you. I pray that they will be in us, so that the world will believe that you sent me.
• John 11:22 : 22 But even now I know that whatever you ask from God, God will grant you.”
• Matt 26:53 : 53 Or do you think that I cannot call on my Father, and that he would send me more than twelve legions of angels right now?
• John 17:8 : 8 because I have given them the words you have given me. They accepted them and really understand that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me.
• Matt 12:22-24 : 22 Jesus and Beelzebul Then they brought to him a demon-possessed man who was blind and mute. Jesus healed him so that he could speak and see. 23 All the crowds were amazed and said,“Could this one be the Son of David?” 24 But when the Pharisees heard this they said,“He does not cast out demons except by the power of Beelzebul, the ruler of demons!”
• John 11:31 : 31 Then the people who were with Mary in the house consoling her saw her get up quickly and go out. They followed her, because they thought she was going to the tomb to weep there.
• John 11:45-50 : 45 The Response of the Jewish Leaders Then many of the people, who had come with Mary and had seen the things Jesus did, believed in him. 46 But some of them went to the Pharisees and reported to them what Jesus had done. 47 So the chief priests and the Pharisees called the council together and said,“What are we doing? For this man is performing many miraculous signs. 48 If we allow him to go on in this way, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away our sanctuary and our nation.” 49 Then one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said,“You know nothing at all! 50 You do not realize that it is more to your advantage to have one man die for the people than for the whole nation to perish.”
• John 12:27-30 : 27 “Now my soul is greatly distressed. And what should I say?‘Father, deliver me from this hour’? No, but for this very reason I have come to this hour. 28 Father, glorify your name.” Then a voice came from heaven,“I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.” 29 The crowd that stood there and heard the voice said that it had thundered. Others said that an angel had spoken to him. 30 Jesus said,“This voice has not come for my benefit but for yours.
• John 17:25 : 25 Righteous Father, even if the world does not know you, I know you, and these men know that you sent me.
• John 20:31 : 31 But these are recorded so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.
• Rom 8:3 : 3 For God achieved what the law could not do because it was weakened through the flesh. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,
• Gal 4:4 : 4 But when the appropriate time had come, God sent out his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
• Heb 5:7 : 7 During his earthly life Christ offered both requests and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to the one who was able to save him from death and he was heard because of his devotion.
• Heb 7:25 : 25 So he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them.
• 1 John 4:9-9 : 9 By this the love of God is revealed in us: that God has sent his one and only Son into the world so that we may live through him. 10 In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
• 1 John 4:14 : 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.
• John 6:38-40 : 38 For I have come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me. 39 Now this is the will of the one who sent me– that I should not lose one person of every one he has given me, but raise them all up at the last day. 40 For this is the will of my Father– for everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him to have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”
• John 7:28-29 : 28 Then Jesus, while teaching in the temple courts, cried out,“You both know me and know where I come from! And I have not come on my own initiative, but the one who sent me is true. You do not know him, 29 but I know him, because I have come from him and he sent me.”
• John 8:16 : 16 But if I judge, my evaluation is accurate, because I am not alone when I judge, but I and the Father who sent me do so together.
• John 8:29 : 29 And the one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do those things that please him.”
• John 8:42 : 42 Jesus replied,“If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come from God and am now here. I have not come on my own initiative, but he sent me.
• John 9:24-34 : 24 Then they summoned the man who used to be blind a second time and said to him,“Promise before God to tell the truth. We know that this man is a sinner.” 25 He replied,“I do not know whether he is a sinner. I do know one thing– that although I was blind, now I can see.” 26 Then they said to him,“What did he do to you? How did he cause you to see?” 27 He answered,“I told you already and you didn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You people don’t want to become his disciples too, do you?” 28 They heaped insults on him, saying,“You are his disciple! We are disciples of Moses! 29 We know that God has spoken to Moses! We do not know where this man comes from!” 30 The man replied,“This is a remarkable thing, that you don’t know where he comes from, and yet he caused me to see! 31 We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is devout and does his will, God listens to him. 32 Never before has anyone heard of someone causing a man born blind to see. 33 If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.” 34 They replied,“You were born completely in sinfulness, and yet you presume to teach us?” So they threw him out.
• John 10:36-38 : 36 do you say about the one whom the Father set apart and sent into the world,‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said,‘I am the Son of God’? 37 If I do not perform the deeds of my Father, do not believe me. 38 But if I do them, even if you do not believe me, believe the deeds, so that you may come to know and understand that I am in the Father and the Father is in me.”