John 21:15

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

When they had dyned Iesus sayde to Simon Peter: Simon Ioana lovest thou me more then these? He sayde vnto him: ye Lorde thou knowest that I love the. He sayde vnto him: fede my lambes.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

¶Ὅτε οὖν ἠρίστησαν, λέγει τῷ Σίμωνι Πέτρῳ ὁ Ἰησοῦς, Σίμων, Ἰωνᾶ, ἀγαπᾷς με πλεῖόν τούτων; Λέγει αὐτῷ, Ναὶ, Κύριε· σὺ οἶδας ὅτι φιλῶ σε. Λέγει αὐτῷ, Βόσκε τὰ ἀρνία μου.

Transliteration

When oun ēristēsan, legei to-the Simōni Petrō the Iēsous, Simōn, Iōna, agapas me pleion these? Legei autō, Yes, Kyrie; you oidas that philō you. Legei autō, Boske the arnia of-me.

Grammar Details

• *Hote*: conjunction - when
• *oun*: conjunction - therefore/then
• *ēristēsan*: aorist active indicative, 3rd person plural - they had eaten
• *legei*: present active indicative, 3rd person singular - says
• *Simōni*: dative, masculine, singular - to Simon
• *Petrō*: dative, masculine, singular - to Peter
• *Iēsous*: nominative, masculine, singular - Jesus
• *Simōn*: vocative, masculine, singular - Simon
• *Iōna*: vocative, masculine, singular - of Jonah
• *agapas*: present active indicative, 2nd person singular - do you love
• *me*: accusative, singular - me
• *pleion*: comparative adverb - more than
• *toutōn*: demonstrative pronoun, genitive, neuter, plural - these
• *autō*: dative, masculine, singular - to him
• *Nai*: particle of affirmation - yes
• *Kyrie*: vocative, masculine, singular - Lord
• *sy*: nominative, singular - you
• *oidas*: perfect active indicative, 2nd person singular - you know
• *hoti*: conjunction - that
• *philō*: present active indicative, 1st person singular - I love/have affection for
• *se*: accusative, singular - you
• *Boske*: present active imperative, 2nd person singular - feed
• *arnia*: accusative, neuter, plural - lambs
• *mou*: genitive, singular - of me/my

Word Meanings

• *ēristēsan*: had eaten/had breakfast
• *agapas*: do you love (agapaō - deeper, spiritual love)
• *pleion*: more than/more completely than
• *philō*: I love/have affection for (phileō - friendship love)
• *Boske*: feed/tend/nourish
• *arnia*: lambs/little sheep

Referenced Verses

• Eph 6:24 : 24 Grace be with all them which love oure LORde Iesus Christ in puernes. Amen.
• 1 Tim 4:15-16 : 15 These thynges exercyse and geve thy silfe vnto them that it maye be sene how thou profetest in all thinges. 16 Take hede vnto thy silfe and vnto learnynge and continue therin. For if thou shalt so do thou shalt save thy silfe and them that heare the.
• 2 Cor 5:14-15 : 14 For the love of Christ costrayneth vs be cause we thus iudge yf one be deed for all yt then are all deed 15 and that he dyed for all that they which live shuld not hence forth live vnto them selves but vnto hym whith died for them and rose agayne.
• Gal 5:6 : 6 For in Iesu Christ nether is circumcision enythinge worth nether yet vncircocision but faith which by love is mighty in operacion.
• 1 John 4:19 : 19 We love him for he loved vs fyrst.
• John 8:42 : 42 Iesus sayde vnto them: yf God were youre father then wolde ye love me. For I proceaded forthe and come from God. Nether came I of my selfe but he sent me.
• Heb 4:13 : 13 nether is there eny creature invisible in the sight of it. For all thynges are naked and bare vnto the eyes of him of who we speake.
• Heb 12:12-13 : 12 Stretch forthe therfore agayne the hondes which were let doune and the weake knees 13 and se that ye have strayght steppes vnto youre fete lest eny haltinge turne out of ye waye: yee let it rather be healed.
• Heb 13:20 : 20 The god of peace that brought agayne fro deth oure LORde Iesus the gret shepperde of the shepe thorowe the bloud of the everlastynge testamet
• 1 Pet 1:8 : 8 who ye have not sene and yet love him in whom even now though ye se him not ye yet beleue and reioyce with ioye vnspeakable and glorious:
• 1 Pet 2:2 : 2 and as newe borne babes desyre that reasonable mylke which is with out corrupcion that ye maye growe therin.
• 1 Pet 2:25 : 25 For ye were as shepe goinge astraye: but are now returned vnto ye shepheerd and bisshoppe of youre soules.
• 1 Pet 5:1-4 : 1 The elders which are amonge you I exhorte which am also an elder and a witnes of the affliccions of Christ and also a partaker of the glory that shalbe opened: 2 se that ye fede Christes flocke which is amonge you takynge the oversyght of them not as though ye were compelled therto but willyngly: not for the desyre of filthy lucre but of a good mynde. 3 not as though ye were LORdes over the parisshes: but that ye be a insample to the flocke. 4 And when the chef shepheerde shall appere ye shall receave an incorruptible croune of glorye.
• John 14:15-24 : 15 If ye love me kepe my comaundementes 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. 18 I will not leave you comfortlesse: but will come vnto you. 19 Yet a litell whyle and the worlde seith me no moare: but ye shall se me. For I live and ye shall live. 20 That daye shall ye knowe that I am in my father and you in me and I in you 21 He that hath my comaundemetes and kepeth them the same is he that loveth me. And he yt loveth me shall be loved of my father: and I will love him and will shewe myne awne selfe vnto him. 22 Iudas sayde vnto him (not Iudas Iscarioth) Lorde what is the cause that thou wilt shewe thy selfe vnto vs and not vnto the worlde? 23 Iesus answered and sayde vnto him: yf a man love me and wyll kepe my sayinges my father also will love him and we will come vnto him and will dwelle with him. 24 He that loveth me not kepeth not my sayinges. And the wordes which ye heare are not myne but the fathers which sent me.
• John 16:27 : 27 For ye father him selfe loveth you because ye have loved me and have beleved that I came out from God.
• John 21:7 : 7 Then sayde the disciple whom Iesus loved vnto Peter: It is the Lorde. When Simon Peter hearde that it was ye LORde he gyrde his mantell to him (for he was naked) and sprange into the see
• Rom 14:1 : 1 Him that is weake in the fayth receave vnto you not in disputynge and troublynge his conscience.
• Rom 15:1 : 1 We which are stronge ought to beare the fraylnes of them which are weake and not to stonde in oure awne cosaytes.
• 1 Cor 3:1-3 : 1 And I coulde not speake vnto you brethre as vnto spretuall: but as vnto carnall even as it were vnto babes in Christ. 2 I gave you mylke to drinke and not meate. For ye then were not stronge no nether yet are. 3 For ye are yet carnall. As longe verely as ther is amoge you envyige stryfe and dissencio: are ye not carnall and walke after ye manner of me?
• 1 Cor 8:11 : 11 And so thorow thy knowledge shall ye weake brother perisshe for whom christ dyed.
• 1 Cor 16:21-22 : 21 The salutacion of me Paul with myne awne hande. 22 Yf eny man love not the Lorde Iesus Christ the same be anathema maranatha.
• John 21:12 : 12 Iesus sayde vnto them: come and dyne. And none of the disciples durste axe him: what arte thou? For they knewe that it was the LORde.
• John 21:16-17 : 16 He sayde to him agayne the seconde tyme: Simo Ioana lovest thou me? He sayde vnto him: ye LORde thou knowest that I love ye. He sayde vnto him: fede my shepe. 17 He sayde vnto him ye thyrde tyme: Simon Ioanna lovest thou me? And Peter sorowed because he sayde to him ye thyrde tyme lovest thou me and sayde vnto him: Lorde thou knowest all thinge thou knowest that I love the. Iesus sayde vnto him: fede my shepe.
• Acts 20:28 : 28 Take hede therfore vnto youre selves and to all the flocke wherof the holy goost hath made you oversears to rule the congregacion of God which he hath purchased with his bloud.
• Gen 33:13 : 13 And he sayde vnto him: my LORde knoweth that I haue tendre childern ewes and kyne with yonge vnder myne hande which yf men shulde ouerdryue but euen one daye the hole flocke wolde dye.
• Matt 10:37 : 37 He that lovith hys father or mother more then me is not mete for me. And he that loveth his sonne or doughter more then me is not mete for me.
• Matt 16:17 : 17 And Iesus answered and sayde to him: happy arte thou Simon the sonne of Ionas for fleshe and bloud hath not opened vnto the yt but my father which is in heve.
• Matt 18:10 : 10 Se that ye despise not one of these litelons. For I saye vnto you yt in heven their angels alwayes behold the face of my father which is in heven.
• Matt 25:34-45 : 34 Then shall the kynge saye to them on his right honde: Come ye blessed chyldren of my father inheret ye the kyngdo prepared for you from the beginninge of the worlde. 35 For I was anhongred and ye gave me meate. I thursted and ye gave me drinke. I was herbourlesse and ye lodged me. 36 I was naked and ye clothed me. I was sicke and ye visited me. I was in preson and ye came vnto me. 37 Then shall ye righteous answere him sayinge master whe sawe we ye anhongred and feed the? or a thurst and gave ye drinke? 38 when sawe we ye herbourlesse and lodged the? or naked and clothed the? 39 or when sawe we the sicke or in preson and came vnto the? 40 And ye kynge shall answere and saye vnto them: verely I saye vnto you: in as moche as ye have done it vnto one of ye leest of these my brethren ye have done it to me. 41 Then shall the kynge saye vnto them that shalbe on the lyfte hande: departe from me ye coursed into everlastinge fire which is prepared for the devyll and his angels. 42 For I was an hungred and ye gave me no meate. I thursted and ye gave me no drinke. 43 I was herbourlesse and ye lodged me not. I was naked and ye clothed me not. I was sicke and in preson and ye visited me not. 44 Then shall they also answere him sayinge: master when sawe we the an hungred or a thurst or herbourlesse or naked or sicke or in preson and did not ministre vnto the? 45 Then shall he answere the and saye: Verely I saye vnto you in as moche as ye did it not to one of ye leest of these ye did it not to me.
• Matt 26:33 : 33 Peter answered and sayde vnto him: though all men shulde be offended by ye yet wolde I never be offended.
• Matt 26:35 : 35 Peter sayde vnto him: Yf I shulde dye with ye yet wolde I not denye ye Lyke wyse also sayde all ye disciples.
• Mark 14:29 : 29 Peter sayde vnto him: And though all men shuld be offended yet wolde not I.
• Luke 12:32 : 32 Feare not litell floocke for it is youre fathers pleasure to geve you a kingdome.
• Luke 22:32 : 32 bnt I have prayed for the that thy faith fayle not. And when thou arte converted strengthe thy brethre.
• John 1:42 : 42 and brought him to Iesus. And Iesus behelde him and sayde: thou arte Simon the sonne of Ionas thou shalt be called Cephas: which is by interpretacion a stone.
• John 13:37 : 37 Peter sayd vnto him: Lorde why canot I folowe the now? I will geve my lyfe for thy sake?
• Eph 4:14 : 14 That we hence forth be no moare chyldren wauerynge and caryed with every wynde of doctryne by the wylynes of men and craftynes wherby they laye a wayte for vs to deceave vs.
• 1 John 5:1 : 1 Whosoever beleveh that Iesus is Christ is borne of god. And every one yt loveth him which begat loveth him also which was begotte of him.
• Rev 2:23 : 23 And I will kyll her children with deeth. And all the congregacions shall knowe that I am he which searcheth ye reynes and hertes. And I will geve vnto evere one of you accordynge vnto youre workes.