John 1:17

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

For the lawe was geven by Moses but grace and truthe came by Iesus Christ.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὅτι ὁ νόμος διὰ Μωσέως ἐδόθη, ἡ χάρις καὶ ἡ ἀλήθεια διὰ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ ἐγένετο.

Transliteration

Because the nomos through Mōseōs edothē, the charis and the alētheia through Iēsou Christou egeneto.

Grammar Details

• *nomos*: nominative masculine singular - law
• *Mōseōs*: genitive masculine singular - of Moses
• *edothē*: aorist passive indicative 3rd person singular of *didōmi* - was given
• *charis*: nominative feminine singular - grace
• *alētheia*: nominative feminine singular - truth
• *Iēsou*: genitive masculine singular - of Jesus
• *Christou*: genitive masculine singular - of Christ/Messiah
• *egeneto*: aorist middle indicative 3rd person singular of *ginomai* - came/became

Word Meanings

• *nomos*: law/principle/regulation
• *edothē*: was given/was granted
• *charis*: grace/favor/goodwill
• *alētheia*: truth/reality/genuineness
• *egeneto*: came/came into being/was realized

Referenced Verses

• John 8:32 : 32 and shall knowe the trueth: and the trueth shall make you free.
• John 14:6 : 6 Iesus sayd vnto him: I am ye waye ye truthe and ye life. And no man cometh vnto the father but by me.
• Rom 3:19-26 : 19 Ye and we knowe that whatsoever ye lawe sayth he sayth it to them which are vnder the lawe. That all mouthes maye be stopped and all the worlde be subdued to god 20 because that by ye dedes of the lawe shall no flesshe be iustified in the sight of God. For by the lawe commeth the knowledge of synne. 21 Now verely is ye rigtewesnes that cometh of God declared without the fulfillinge of ye lawe havinge witnes yet of ye lawe and of the Prophetes. 22 The rightewesnes no dout which is good before God cometh by ye fayth of Iesus Christ vnto all and vpon all that beleve. Ther is no differece: 23 for all have synned and lacke the prayse yt is of valoure before God: 24 but are iustified frely by his grace through the redemcion that is in Christ Iesu 25 whom God hath made a seate of mercy thorow faith in his bloud to shewe ye rightewesnes which before him is of valoure in yt he forgeveth ye synnes yt are passed which God dyd suffre 26 to shewe at this tyme ye rightewesnes yt is alowed of him yt he myght be couted iuste and a iustifiar of him which belevith on Iesus.
• Rom 6:14 : 14 Let not synne have power over you. For ye are not vnder the lawe but vnder grace.
• 2 Cor 3:7-9 : 7 Yf the ministracion of deeth thorow the letters figured in stones was glorious so yt the chyldren of Israel coulde not beholde the face of Moses for the glory of his countenauce (which glory neverthelesse is done awaye) 8 why shall not the ministracion of the sprete be moche more glorious? 9 For if ye ministringe of condempnacio beglorious: moche more do the the ministracion of rightewesnes excede in glory. 10 For no dout that which was there glorified is not once glorified in respecte of this excedynge glory.
• Heb 9:22 : 22 And almost all thynges are bye the lawe pourged with bloud and with out effusion of bloud is no remission.
• Rom 5:20-21 : 20 But ye lawe in the meane tyme entred in yt synne shuld encreace. Neverthelater where aboundaunce of synne was there was more plenteousnes of grace. 21 That as synne had raigned vnto deeth even so might grace raygne thorow rightewesnes vnto eternall lyfe by the helpe of Iesu Christ.
• John 7:19 : 19 Dyd not Moses geve you a lawe and yet none of you kepeth ye lawe? Why goo ye aboute to kyll me?
• John 1:14 : 14 And the worde was made flesshe and dwelt amonge vs and we sawe the glory of it as the glory of the only begotten sonne of ye father which worde was full of grace and verite.
• Acts 28:23 : 23 And when they had apoynted him a daye ther came many vnto him into his lodgynge. To whom he expounded and testifyed the kyngdome of God and preached vnto the of Iesu: both out of the lawe of Moses and also out of the prophetes even from mornynge to nyght.
• Rev 7:9-9 : 9 After this I behelde and lo a gret multitude (which noma coulde nombre) of all nacios and people and tonges stode before the seate and before the lambe clothed with longe whyte garmentes and palmes in there hondes 10 and cryed with a lowde voyce sayinge: salvacion be asscribed to him that syttith apon the seate of oure god and vnto the lambe. 11 And all the angelles stode in the compase of the seate and of the elders and of the iiii. bestes and fel before the seat on their faces and worshipped god 12 sayinge amen: Blessynge and glory wisdome and thankes and honour and power and myght be vnto oure god for evermore Amen. 13 And one of the elders answered sayinge vnto me: what are these which are arayed in longe whyte garmentes and whence cam they? 14 And I sayde vnto him: LORde thou wottest. And he sayde vnto me: these are they which cam oute of gret tribulacion and made their garmetes large and made them whyte in the bloud of the lambe: 15 therfore are they in the presence of the seate of God and serve him daye and nyght in hys temple and he that sytteth in the seate wyll dwell amonge them. 16 They shalt honger no more nether thyrst nether shall the sunne lyght on them nether eny heate: 17 For the lambe which ys in the myddes of the seate shall fede them and shall ledde them vnto fountaynes of lyuynge water and god shall wype awaye all teares from their eyes.
• Heb 3:5-6 : 5 And Moses verely was faythfull in all his housse as a minister to beare witnes of tho thinges which shuld be spoken afterwarde. 6 But Christ as a sonne hath rule over the housse whose housse are we so that we hold fast the confydence and the reioysynge of that hope vnto the ende.
• John 5:45 : 45 Doo not thinke that I wyll accuse you to my father. Ther is one that accuseth you eve Moses in whom ye trust.
• Luke 1:54-55 : 54 He remenbreth mercy: and helpeth his servaunt Israel. 55 Even as he promised to oure fathers Abraham and to his seede for ever.
• Luke 1:68-79 : 68 Blessed be the Lorde God of Israel for he hath visited and redemed his people. 69 And hath reysed vp an horne of salvacion vnto vs in the housse of his servaunt David. 70 Even as he promised by ye mouth of his holy prophetes which were sens ye worlde began 71 That we shuld be saved from oure enemies and from the hondis of all that hate vs: 72 To fulfill the mercy promised to oure fathers and to remember his holy covenaunt. 73 And to performe the oothe which he sware to oure father Adraham 74 for to geve vs. That we delyvered oute of ye hondes of oure enemyes myght serve him with oute feare 75 all the dayes of oure lyfe in suche holynes and ryghtewesnes that are accept before him. 76 And thou chylde shalt be called the Prophet of the hyest: for thou shalt goo before the face of the LORde to prepare his wayes: 77 And to geve knowlege of salvacion vnto his people for the remission of synnes: 78 Through the tender mercy of oure God wherby the daye springe from an hye hath visited vs. 79 To geve light to the that sate in darcknes and in shadowe of deth and to gyde oure fete into the waye of peace.
• Gen 22:18 : 18 And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed because thou hast obeyed my voyce.
• Deut 5:1 : 1 And Moses called vnto all Israell and sayed vnto them: Heare Israel the ordynaunces and lawes which I speke in thyne eares this daye, and lerne them and take hede that ye doo them.
• Acts 7:38 : 38 This is he that was in ye congregacion in the wyldernes with the angell which spake to him in ye moute Syna and with oure fathers. This man receaved the worde of lyfe to geve vnto vs
• Acts 13:34-39 : 34 As concernynge that he reysed him vp from deeth now no more to returne to corrupcion he sayde on this wyse: The holy promyses made to David I will geve them faithfully to you. 35 Wherfore he saith also in another place: Thou shalt not soffre thyne holye to se corrupcion. 36 Howbe it David after he had in his tyme fulfilled the will of God he slepte and was layde with his fathers and sawe corrupcion. 37 But he whom God reysed agayne sawe no corrupcion. 38 Be it knowne vnto you therfore ye men and brethre that thorow this man is preached vnto you the forgevenes of synnes 39 and yt by him are all yt beleve iustified fro all thinges fro the which ye coulde not be iustified by ye lawe of Moses.
• Heb 8:8-9 : 8 For in rebukynge the he sayth: Beholde the dayes will come (sayth the LORde) and I will fynnyshe apon the housse of Israhel and apon the housse of Iuda 9 a newe testament: not lyke the testament that I made with their fathers at that tyme whe I toke them by the hondes to lede them oute of the londe of Egipte for they continued not in my testament and I regarded them not sayth the LORde. 10 For this is the testament that I will make with the housse of Israhell: After those dayes sayth the LORde: I will put my lawes in their myndes and in their hertes I will wryte the and I wilbe their God and they shalbe my people. 11 And they shall not teache every man his neghboure and every man his brother sayinge: knowe the LORde: For they shall knowe me from the lest to the moste of them: 12 For I wilbe mercifull over their vnrightwesnes and on their synnes and on their iniquiries.
• Heb 10:4-9 : 4 For it is vnpossible that the bloud of oxen and of gotes shuld take awaye synnes. 5 Wherfore when he commeth into the worlde he sayth: Sacrifice and offeringe thou woldest not have: but a bodie hast thou ordeyned me. 6 In sacrifices and synne offerynges thou hast no lust. 7 Then I sayde: Lo I come in the chefest of the boke it is written of me that I shuld doo thy will o god. 8 Above when he had sayed sacrifice and offerynge and burnt sacrifices and synne offerynges thou woldest not have nether hast alowed (which yet are offered by the lawe) 9 and then sayde: Lo I come to do thy will o god: he taketh awaye the fyrst to stablisshe the latter. 10 By the which will we are sanctified by the offeringe of the body of Iesu Christe once for all.
• Gal 3:10-13 : 10 For as many as are vnder the dedes of the lawe are vnder malediccio. For it is written: cursed is every man yt cotinueth not in all thinges which are writte in ye boke of ye lawe to fulfill the. 11 That no ma is iustified by ye lawe in ye sight of God is evidet. For the iuste shall live by fayth. 12 The lawe is not of fayth: but the man that fulfilleth the thinges contayned in the lawe (shall live in the.) 13 But Christ hath delivered vs fro the curse of the lawe and was made a cursed for vs. For it is writte: cursed is every one that hangeth on tree
• Gal 3:17 : 17 This I saye that the lawe which beganne afterwarde beyonde.iiii.C and.xxx. yeares doth not disanull the testament that was confermed afore of God vnto Christ ward to make the promes of none effect.
• Rom 15:8-9 : 8 And I saye that Iesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the trueth of god to conferme the promyses made vnto the fathers. 9 And let the gentyls prayse god for his mercy as it is written: For this cause I will prayse the amonge the gentyls and synge in thy name. 10 And agayne he sayth: reioyse ye gentyles with his people. 11 And agayne prayse the Lorde all ye gentyls and laude him all nacions. 12 And in another place Esaias sayth: ther shalbe the rote of Iesse and he that shall ryse ro raygne over the gentyls: in him shall the gentyls trust.
• 2 Cor 1:20 : 20 For all the promyses of God in him are ye: and are in him Amen vnto the lawde of God thorow vs.
• Heb 11:39-40 : 39 And these all thorow fayth obtayned good reporte and receaved not the promes 40 God provydinge a better thinge for vs that they with out vs shuld not be made parfecte.
• Rev 5:8-9 : 8 And when he had take the boke the.iiii. bestes and xxiiii. elders fell doune before the labe havynge harpes and golden vialles full of odoures which are the prayers of saynctes 9 and they songe a newe songe saynge: thou art worthy to take ye boke and to ope ye seales therof: for thou waste kylled and haste redemed vs by thy bloud out of all kynreddes and tonges and people and nacions 10 and haste made vs vnto oure god kynges and prestes and we shall raygne on the erth.
• Gen 3:15 : 15 Morover I will put hatred betwene the and the woman and betwene thy seed and hyr seed. And that seed shall tread the on the heed ad thou shalt tread hit on the hele.
• John 9:29 : 29 We are sure that God spake with Moses. This felowe we knowe not from whence he is.
• Exod 20:1-9 : 1 And God spake all these wordes ad saide: 2 I am the Lorde thy God, which haue brought the out of the londe of Egipte ad out of the house of bondage. 3 Thou shalt haue none other goddes in my syght. 4 Thou shalt make the no grauen ymage, nether any symilitude that is in heauen aboue, ether in the erth beneth, or in the water that ys beneth the erth. 5 Se that thou nether bowe thy sylf vnto them nether serue them: for I the Lorde thy God, am a gelouse God, and viset the synne of the fathers vppon the childern vnto the third and fourth generacion of the that hate me: 6 and yet shewe mercie vnto thousandes amonge them that loue me and kepe my commaundmentes. 7 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lorde thy God in vayne, for the Lord wil not holde him giltlesse that taketh his name in vayne. 8 Remebre the Sabbath daye that thou sanctifie it. 9 Sixe dayes mayst thou laboure ad do al that thou hast to doo: 10 but the seuenth daye is the Sabbath of the Lorde thy God, in it thou shalt do no maner worke: nether thou nor thy sonne, nor thy doughter, nether thy manservaunte nor thy maydeservaunte, nether thy catell nether yet the straunger that is within thi gates 11 For in sixe dayes the Lorde made both heauen and erth and the see and all that in them is and rested the seuenth daye: wherfore the Lorde blessed the Sabbath daye and halowed it. 12 Honoure thy father ad thy mother, that thy dayes may be loge in the lode which the Lorde thy God geueth the. 13 Thou shalt not kyll. 14 Thou shalt not breake wedlocke. 15 Thou shalt not steale. 16 Thou shalt bere no false witnesse agest thy neghboure 17 Thou shalt not couet thy neghbours housse: nether shalt couet thy neghbours wife, his maservaunte, his mayde, his oxe, his asse or oughte that is his.
• Deut 4:44 : 44 This is the lawe which Moses set before the childern of Israel,
• Deut 33:4 : 4 Moses gaue us a lawe which is the enheritaunce of the cogregacion of Iacob.