John 16:7

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

Neverthelesse I tell you the trueth it is expedient for you that I goo awaye. For yf I goo not awaye that comforter will not come vnto you. But yf I departe I will sende him vnto you.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἀλλʼ ἐγὼ τὴν ἀλήθειαν λέγω ὑμῖν· Συμφέρει ὑμῖν ἵνα ἐγὼ ἀπέλθω: ἐὰν γὰρ μὴ ἀπέλθω, ὁ Παράκλητος οὐκ ἐλεύσεται πρὸς ὑμᾶς· ἐὰν δὲ πορευθῶ, πέμψω αὐτὸν πρὸς ὑμᾶς.

Transliteration

But I the alētheian legō to you; Sympherei to you hina I apelthō: if for not apelthō, the Paraklētos not eleusetai pros you; if but poreuthō, I will pempsō him pros you.

Grammar Details

• Ἀλλʼ: adversative conjunction - but
• ἐγὼ: personal pronoun, nominative, singular - I
• τὴν: definite article, accusative, feminine, singular - the
• *alētheian*: noun, accusative, feminine, singular - truth
• *legō*: present active indicative, 1st person singular - I tell/say
• ὑμῖν: personal pronoun, dative, plural - for you
• *Sympherei*: present active indicative, 3rd person singular - it is beneficial/profitable
• *hina*: conjunction introducing purpose clause - that
• *apelthō*: aorist active subjunctive, 1st person singular - I go away
• ἐὰν: conditional conjunction - if
• γὰρ: conjunction - for
• μὴ: negative particle - not
• ὁ: definite article, nominative, masculine, singular - the
• *Paraklētos*: noun, nominative, masculine, singular - Helper/Advocate/Comforter
• οὐκ: negative particle - not
• *eleusetai*: future middle indicative, 3rd person singular - will come
• *pros*: preposition with accusative - to
• ὑμᾶς: personal pronoun, accusative, plural - you
• δὲ: conjunctive particle - but/and
• *poreuthō*: aorist passive subjunctive, 1st person singular - I go/depart
• *pempsō*: future active indicative, 1st person singular - I will send
• αὐτὸν: personal pronoun, accusative, masculine, singular - him

Word Meanings

• *alētheian*: truth/reality
• *legō*: I tell/I say/I speak
• *Sympherei*: it is beneficial/it is advantageous/it is profitable
• *apelthō*: I go away/I depart
• *Paraklētos*: Helper/Advocate/Comforter/Counselor
• *eleusetai*: will come/will arrive
• *pros*: to/toward/with
• *poreuthō*: I go/I depart/I journey
• *pempsō*: I will send/I will dispatch

Referenced Verses

• John 14:26 : 26 But that coforter which is the holy gost (whom my father will sende in my name) he shall teache you all thinges and bringe all thinges to youre remembraunce whatsoever I have tolde you.
• John 15:26 : 26 But when the comforter is come whom I will sende vnto you fro the father which is the sprete of truthe which proceadeth of the father he shall testifie of me.
• John 14:16-17 : 16 and I will praye the father and he shall geve you a nother comforter yt he maye byde with you ever 17 which is the sprete of truthe whome the worlde canot receave because the worlde seyth him not nether knoweth him. But ye knowe him. For he dwelleth with you and shalbe in you.
• John 7:39 : 39 This spak he of the sprete which they that beleved on him shuld receave. For the holy goost was not yet there because that Iesus was not yet glorifyed.
• Rom 8:28 : 28 For we knowe that all thinges worke for the best vnto them yt love God which also are called of purpose.
• Acts 2:33 : 33 Sence now that he by the right honde of God exalted is and hath receaved of the father the promyse of the holy goost he hath sheed forthe that which ye nowe se and heare.
• John 11:50-52 : 50 nor yet consider that it is expedient for vs that one man dye for the people and not that all the people perisshe. 51 This spake he not of him selfe but beinge hye preste that same yeare he prophesied that Iesus shulde dye for the people 52 and not for the people only but that he shuld gader to geder in one the chyldren of God which were scattered abroode.
• John 14:3 : 3 And yf I go to prepare a place for you I will come agayne and receave you eve vnto my selfe yt where I am there maye ye be also.
• Luke 24:49 : 49 And beholde I will sende the promes of my father apon you. But tary ye in ye cite of Ierusalem vntyll ye be endewed with power from an hye.
• John 8:45-46 : 45 And because I tell you ye trueth therfore ye beleve me not. 46 Which of you can rebuke me of synne? If I saye ye trueth why do not ye beleve me?
• Acts 10:34 : 34 Then Peter opened his mouth and sayde: Of a trueth I perseave that God is not parciall
• 2 Cor 4:17 : 17 For oure excedinge tribulacion which is momentany and light prepareth an excedinge and an eternall wayght of glorye
• Eph 4:8-9 : 8 Wherfore he sayth: He is gone vp an hye and hath ledde captivitie captive and hath geven gyftes vnto men. 9 That he ascended: what meaneth it but that he also descended fyrst into the lowest parties of the erth? 10 He that descended is even the same also that ascended vp even above all hevens to fulfill all thinges. 11 And the very same made some Apostles some prophetes some Evangelistes some Sheperdes some Teachers: 12 yt the sainctes might have all thinges necessarie to worke and minister with all to the edifyinge of the body of christ 13 tyll we every one (in the vnitie of fayth and knowledge of the sonne of god) growe vp vnto a parfayte man after ye measure of age of the fulnes of Christ.
• Acts 1:4-5 : 4 and gaddered them togeder and commaunded the that they shuld not departe from Ierusalem: but to wayte for ye promys of the father whereof ye have herde of me. 5 For Iohn baptised wt water: but ye shalbe baptised with the holy goost and that with in this feawe dayes.
• John 14:28 : 28 Ye have hearde how I sayde vnto you: I go and come agayne vnto you. If ye loved me ye wolde verely reioyce because I sayde I go vnto ye father. For ye father is greater then I
• Luke 4:25 : 25 But I tell you of a truth many wyddowes were in Israell in the dayes of Helias when hevyn was shet thre yeres and syxe monethes when greate fammisshemet was throughoute all the londe
• Luke 9:27 : 27 And I tell you of a surety: There be some of the yt stonde here which shall not tast of deeth tyll they se ye kyngdome of god.