John 20:31

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ταῦτα δὲ γέγραπται, ἵνα πιστεύσητε ὅτι Ἰησοῦς ἐστιν ὁ Χριστὸς, ὁ Υἱὸς τοῦ Θεοῦ· καὶ ἵνα πιστεύοντες ζωὴν ἔχητε ἐν τῷ ὀνόματι αὐτοῦ.

Transliteration

These but have been gegraptai, that you might pisteusete that Iesous estin the Christos, the Huios of tou Theou; and that pisteuontes zoen you might echete in to onomati of him.

Grammar Details

• *tauta*: demonstrative pronoun nominative neuter plural - these things
• *gegraptai*: perfect passive indicative 3rd person singular - has been written
• *pisteusete*: aorist active subjunctive 2nd person plural - you might believe
• *Iesous*: nominative masculine singular - Jesus
• *estin*: present active indicative 3rd person singular - is
• *Christos*: nominative masculine singular - Christ/Messiah/Anointed One
• *Huios*: nominative masculine singular - Son
• *tou Theou*: genitive masculine singular - of God
• *pisteuontes*: present active participle nominative masculine plural - believing
• *zoen*: accusative feminine singular - life
• *echete*: present active subjunctive 2nd person plural - you might have
• *to onomati*: dative neuter singular - the name

Word Meanings

• *tauta*: these things
• *gegraptai*: has been written/recorded (perfect tense emphasizes continuing state)
• *pisteusete*: believe/trust/have faith
• *estin*: is/exists
• *Christos*: Christ/Messiah/Anointed One
• *Huios*: Son
• *Theou*: God/Deity
• *pisteuontes*: believing/trusting/having faith (ongoing action)
• *zoen*: life/existence
• *echete*: have/possess/hold
• *onomati*: name/title/reputation

Referenced Verses

• Acts 10:43 : 43 About him all the prophets testify, that everyone who believes in him receives forgiveness of sins through his name.”
• 1 John 5:10-13 : 10 (The one who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself; the one who does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has testified concerning his Son.) 11 And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 The one who has the Son has this eternal life; the one who does not have the Son of God does not have this eternal life. 13 Assurance of Eternal Life I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.
• John 3:15-16 : 15 so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.” 16 For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.
• 1 John 5:1 : 1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been fathered by God, and everyone who loves the father loves the child fathered by him.
• 1 John 5:20 : 20 And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us insight to know him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. This one is the true God and eternal life.
• 2 John 1:9 : 9 Everyone who goes on ahead and does not remain in the teaching of Christ does not have God. The one who remains in this teaching has both the Father and the Son.
• 1 John 4:15 : 15 If anyone confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God resides in him and he in God.
• John 3:36 : 36 The one who believes in the Son has eternal life. The one who rejects the Son will not see life, but God’s wrath remains on him.
• John 10:10 : 10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come so that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
• John 19:35 : 35 And the person who saw it has testified(and his testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth), so that you also may believe.
• John 20:28 : 28 Thomas replied to him,“My Lord and my God!”
• Acts 3:16 : 16 And on the basis of faith in Jesus’ name, his very name has made this man– whom you see and know– strong. The faith that is through Jesus has given him this complete health in the presence of you all.
• Acts 8:36 : 36 Now as they were going along the road, they came to some water, and the eunuch said,“Look, there is water! What is to stop me from being baptized?”
• Acts 9:20 : 20 and immediately he began to proclaim Jesus in the synagogues, saying,“This man is the Son of God.”
• John 5:24 : 24 “I tell you the solemn truth, the one who hears my message and believes the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned, but has crossed over from death to life.
• John 5:39-40 : 39 You study the scriptures thoroughly because you think in them you possess eternal life, and it is these same scriptures that testify about me, 40 but you are not willing to come to me so that you may have life.
• John 6:40 : 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 6:69-70 : 69 We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God!” 70 Jesus replied,“Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and yet one of you is the devil?”
• John 9:35-38 : 35 The Man’s Response to Jesus Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, so he found the man and said to him,“Do you believe in the Son of Man?” 36 The man replied,“And who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?” 37 Jesus told him,“You have seen him; he is the one speaking with you.”[ 38 He said,“Lord, I believe,” and he worshiped him.
• Ps 2:7 : 7 The king says,“I will announce the LORD’s decree. He said to me:‘You are my son! This very day I have become your father!
• Ps 2:12 : 12 Give sincere homage! Otherwise he will be angry, and you will die because of your behavior, when his anger quickly ignites. How blessed are all who take shelter in him!
• Matt 4:3 : 3 The tempter came and said to him,“If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become bread.”
• Matt 16:16 : 16 Simon Peter answered,“You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
• Matt 27:54 : 54 Now when the centurion and those with him who were guarding Jesus saw the earthquake and what took place, they were extremely terrified and said,“Truly this one was God’s Son!”
• 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 1:4 : 4 so that you may know for certain the things you were taught.
• Luke 24:47 : 47 and repentance for the forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
• John 1:49 : 49 Nathanael answered him,“Rabbi, you are the Son of God; you are the king of Israel!”
• John 3:18 : 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.
• Acts 13:38-39 : 38 Therefore let it be known to you, brothers, that through this one forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you, 39 and by this one everyone who believes is justified from everything from which the law of Moses could not justify you.
• Rom 1:3-4 : 3 concerning his Son who was a descendant of David with reference to the flesh, 4 who was appointed the Son-of-God-in-power according to the Holy Spirit by the resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord.
• 1 Pet 1:9 : 9 because you are attaining the goal of your faith– the salvation of your souls.
• 1 John 2:23-25 : 23 Everyone who denies the Son does not have the Father either. The person who confesses the Son has the Father also. 24 As for you, what you have heard from the beginning must remain in you. If what you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father. 25 Now this is the promise that he himself made to us: eternal life.
• Rev 2:18 : 18 To the Church in Thyatira“To the angel of the church in Thyatira write the following:“This is the solemn pronouncement of the Son of God, the one who has eyes like a fiery flame and whose feet are like polished bronze: