John 12:48

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

The one who rejects me and does not accept my words has a judge; the word I have spoken will judge him at the last day.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὁ ἀθετῶν ἐμὲ, καὶ μὴ λαμβάνων τὰ ῥήματά μου, ἔχει τὸν κρίνοντα αὐτόν: ὁ λόγος ὃν ἐλάλησα, ἐκεῖνος κρινεῖ αὐτὸν ἐν τῇ ἐσχάτῃ ἡμέρᾳ.

Transliteration

The athetōn me, and not lambanōn the rhēmata of me, echei the krinonta him: the logos which elalēsa, that krinei him in the eschatē hēmera.

Grammar Details

• *athetōn*: present active participle, nominative, masculine, singular - rejecting/setting aside
• *lambanōn*: present active participle, nominative, masculine, singular - receiving/taking
• *rhēmata*: accusative, neuter, plural - words/sayings
• *echei*: present active indicative, 3rd singular - has/holds
• *krinonta*: present active participle, accusative, masculine, singular - judging/condemning
• *logos*: nominative, masculine, singular - word/message
• *elalēsa*: aorist active indicative, 1st singular - I spoke
• *krinei*: future active indicative, 3rd singular - will judge
• *eschatē*: dative, feminine, singular - last/final
• *hēmera*: dative, feminine, singular - day

Word Meanings

• *athetōn*: rejecting/setting aside/nullifying
• *lambanōn*: receiving/taking/accepting
• *rhēmata*: words/sayings/utterances
• *logos*: word/message/reason/account
• *eschatē*: last/final/ultimate

Referenced Verses

• Luke 10:16 : 16 “The one who listens to you listens to me, and the one who rejects you rejects me, and the one who rejects me rejects the one who sent me.”
• Rom 2:16 : 16 on the day when God will judge the secrets of human hearts, according to my gospel through Christ Jesus.
• 2 Thess 1:8 : 8 With flaming fire he will mete out punishment on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
• Heb 9:27-28 : 27 And just as people are appointed to die once, and then to face judgment, 28 so also, after Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many, to those who eagerly await him he will appear a second time, not to bear sin but to bring salvation.
• Heb 10:29-31 : 29 How much greater punishment do you think that person deserves who has contempt for the Son of God, and profanes the blood of the covenant that made him holy, and insults the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know the one who said,“Vengeance is mine, I will repay,” and again,“The Lord will judge his people.” 31 It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
• Heb 12:25 : 25 Take care not to refuse the one who is speaking! For if they did not escape when they refused the one who warned them on earth, how much less shall we, if we reject the one who warns from heaven?
• Heb 2:3 : 3 how will we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was first communicated through the Lord and was confirmed to us by those who heard him,
• John 3:17-20 : 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world should be saved through him. 18 The one who believes in him is not condemned. The one who does not believe has been condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God. 19 Now this is the basis for judging: that the light has come into the world and people loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For everyone who does evil deeds hates the light and does not come to the light, so that their deeds will not be exposed.
• John 5:45 : 45 “Do not suppose that I will accuse you before the Father. The one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have placed your hope.
• John 11:24 : 24 Martha said,“I know that he will come back to life again in the resurrection at the last day.”
• Acts 3:23 : 23 Every person who does not obey that prophet will be destroyed and thus removed from the people.’
• 2 Cor 2:15-16 : 15 For we are a sweet aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing– 16 to the latter an odor from death to death, but to the former a fragrance from life to life. And who is adequate for these things?
• 2 Cor 4:3 : 3 But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled only to those who are perishing,
• Luke 17:25 : 25 But first he must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation.
• Luke 20:17 : 17 But Jesus looked straight at them and said,“Then what is the meaning of that which is written:‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone’?
• Deut 18:18-19 : 18 I will raise up a prophet like you for them from among their fellow Israelites. I will put my words in his mouth and he will speak to them whatever I command. 19 I will personally hold responsible anyone who then pays no attention to the words that prophet speaks in my name.
• 1 Sam 8:7 : 7 The LORD said to Samuel,“Do everything the people request of you. For it is not you that they have rejected, but it is me that they have rejected as their king.
• 1 Sam 10:19 : 19 But today you have rejected your God who saves you from all your trouble and distress. You have said,“No! Appoint a king over us.” Now take your positions before the LORD by your tribes and by your clans.’”
• Isa 53:3 : 3 He was despised and rejected by people, one who experienced pain and was acquainted with illness; people hid their faces from him; he was despised, and we considered him insignificant.
• Matt 21:42 : 42 Jesus said to them,“Have you never read in the scriptures:‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?
• Matt 25:31 : 31 The Judgment“When the Son of Man comes in his glory and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne.
• Mark 8:31 : 31 First Prediction of Jesus’ Death and Resurrection Then Jesus began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and experts in the law, and be killed, and after three days rise again.
• Mark 12:10 : 10 Have you not read this scripture:‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.
• Mark 16:16 : 16 The one who believes and is baptized will be saved, but the one who does not believe will be condemned.
• Luke 7:30 : 30 However, the Pharisees and the experts in religious law rejected God’s purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John.)
• Luke 9:22 : 22 saying,“The Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, chief priests, and experts in the law, and be killed, and on the third day be raised.”
• Luke 9:26 : 26 For whoever is ashamed of me and my words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of that person when he comes in his glory and in the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.