John 8:31

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Abraham’s Children and the Devil’s Children Then Jesus said to those Judeans who had believed him,“If you continue to follow my teaching, you are really my disciples

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἔλεγεν οὖν ὁ Ἰησοῦς πρὸς τοὺς πεπιστευκότας αὐτῷ Ἰουδαίους, Ἐὰν ὑμεῖς μείνητε ἐν τῷ λόγῳ τῷ ἐμῷ, ἀληθῶς μαθηταί μου ἐστέ·

Transliteration

Elegen oun the Iēsous pros tous pepisteukotas to-him Ioudaious, If you meinēte en tō logō tō emō, alēthōs mathētai of-me este;

Grammar Details

• *Elegen*: imperfect active indicative, 3rd person singular - was saying [continuous past]
• *oun*: inferential particle - therefore/then
• *Iēsous*: nominative masculine singular - Jesus
• *pros*: preposition + accusative - to/toward
• *tous pepisteukotas*: perfect active participle, accusative masculine plural - the having believed/the ones who had believed
• *Ioudaious*: accusative masculine plural - Jews
• *meinēte*: aorist active subjunctive, 2nd person plural - you might remain/abide
• *en*: preposition + dative - in
• *tō logō*: dative masculine singular with article - in the word/message
• *tō emō*: dative masculine singular possessive pronoun - my/mine
• *alēthōs*: adverb - truly/genuinely
• *mathētai*: nominative masculine plural - disciples/pupils/learners
• *este*: present active indicative, 2nd person plural - you are

Word Meanings

• *pepisteukotas*: having believed/having faith/having trusted
• *meinēte*: remain/abide/continue/dwell
• *logō*: word/message/account/discourse
• *alēthōs*: truly/really/genuinely/indeed
• *mathētai*: disciples/students/followers/pupils

Referenced Verses

• 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.
• 2 Tim 3:14 : 14 You, however, must continue in the things you have learned and are confident about. You know who taught you
• John 15:4-9 : 4 Remain in me, and I will remain in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me. 5 “I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me– and I in him– bears much fruit, because apart from me you can accomplish nothing. 6 If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown out like a branch, and dries up; and such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire, and are burned up. 7 If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you want, and it will be done for you. 8 My Father is honored by this, that you bear much fruit and show that you are my disciples. 9 “Just as the Father has loved me, I have also loved you; remain in my love.
• Matt 24:13 : 13 But the person who endures to the end will be saved.
• John 1:47 : 47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and exclaimed,“Look, a true Israelite in whom there is no deceit!”
• John 6:55 : 55 For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.
• John 6:66-71 : 66 Peter’s Confession After this many of his disciples quit following him and did not accompany him any longer. 67 So Jesus said to the twelve,“You don’t want to go away too, do you?” 68 Simon Peter answered him,“Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life. 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?” 71 (Now he said this about Judas son of Simon Iscariot, for Judas, one of the twelve, was going to betray him.)
• Heb 10:38-39 : 38 But my righteous one will live by faith, and if he shrinks back, I take no pleasure in him. 39 But we are not among those who shrink back and thus perish, but are among those who have faith and preserve their souls.
• Col 1:23 : 23 if indeed you remain in the faith, established and firm, without shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard. This gospel has also been preached in all creation under heaven, and I, Paul, have become its servant.
• 1 Tim 2:15 : 15 But she will be delivered through childbearing, if she continues in faith and love and holiness with self-control.
• 1 Tim 4:16 : 16 Be conscientious about how you live and what you teach. Persevere in this, because by doing so you will save both yourself and those who listen to you.
• Acts 13:43 : 43 When the meeting of the synagogue had broken up, many of the Jews and God-fearing proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who were speaking with them and were persuading them to continue in the grace of God.
• 1 Sam 12:14 : 14 If you fear the LORD, serving him and obeying him and not rebelling against what he says, and if both you and the king who rules over you follow the LORD your God, all will be well.
• 1 John 2:24 : 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.
• Acts 14:22 : 22 They strengthened the souls of the disciples and encouraged them to continue in the faith, saying,“We must enter the kingdom of God through many persecutions.”
• Acts 26:22 : 22 I have experienced help from God to this day, and so I stand testifying to both small and great, saying nothing except what the prophets and Moses said was going to happen:
• Rom 2:7 : 7 eternal life to those who by perseverance in good works seek glory and honor and immortality,
• Rom 11:22 : 22 Notice therefore the kindness and harshness of God– harshness toward those who have fallen, but God’s kindness toward you, provided you continue in his kindness; otherwise you also will be cut off.
• John 8:36 : 36 So if the son sets you free, you will be really free.
• 1 Tim 5:3-5 : 3 Honor widows who are truly in need. 4 But if a widow has children or grandchildren, they should first learn to fulfill their duty toward their own household and so repay their parents what is owed them. For this is what pleases God. 5 But the widow who is truly in need, and completely on her own, has set her hope on God and continues in her pleas and prayers night and day.
• Jas 1:25 : 25 But the one who peers into the perfect law of liberty and fixes his attention there, and does not become a forgetful listener but one who lives it out– he will be blessed in what he does.
• 1 John 2:19 : 19 They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us, because if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us. But they went out from us to demonstrate that all of them do not belong to us.
• Heb 3:14 : 14 For we have become partners with Christ, if in fact we hold our initial confidence firm until the end.
• Heb 8:9 : 9 “It will not be like the covenant that I made with their fathers, on the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of Egypt, because they did not continue in my covenant and I had no regard for them, says the Lord.