John 3:12

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

Yf when I tell you erthely thinges ye beleve not: how shuld ye beleve yf I shall tell you of hevenly thinges?

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Εἰ τὰ ἐπίγεια εἶπον ὑμῖν, καὶ οὐ πιστεύετε, πῶς ἐὰν εἴπω ὑμῖν τὰ ἐπουράνια; πιστεύσετε,

Transliteration

If the epigeia eipon hymin, and not pisteuete, how if eipō hymin ta epourania pisteuseté?

Grammar Details

• *epigeia*: accusative, neuter, plural - earthly things
• *eipon*: aorist, 1st singular - I told/said
• *hymin*: personal pronoun, dative, plural - to you [plural]
• *pisteuete*: present, 2nd plural - you believe
• *eipō*: aorist, subjunctive, 1st singular - I might tell/say
• *epourania*: accusative, neuter, plural - heavenly things
• *pisteusete*: future, 2nd plural - you will believe

Word Meanings

• *epigeia*: earthly things/terrestrial matters
• *epourania*: heavenly things/celestial matters
• *pisteuete*: believe/trust/have faith in

Referenced Verses

• 1 Cor 2:7-9 : 7 but we speake ye wysdome of God which is in secrete and lieth hyd which God ordeyned before the worlde vnto oure glory: 8 which wysdome none of ye rulars of the worlde knewe. For had they knowe it they wolde not have crucified the Lorde of glory. 9 But as it is written: The eye hath not sene and the eare hath not hearde nether have entred into the herte of man ye thinges which God hath prepared for them that love him.
• 1 Cor 3:1-2 : 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.
• Heb 5:11 : 11 Wherof we have many thynges to saye which are harde to be vttered: because ye are dull of hearinge.
• 1 Pet 2:1-3 : 1 Wherfore laye asyde all maliciousnes and all gyle and dissimulacion and envie and all backbytynge: 2 and as newe borne babes desyre that reasonable mylke which is with out corrupcion that ye maye growe therin. 3 If so be that ye have tasted how plesaunt the LORde is
• 1 John 4:10 : 10 Herin is love not that we loved god but that he loved vs and sent his sonne to make agrement for oure sinnes.
• 1 Tim 3:16 : 16 And with out naye great is that mistery of godlines: God was shewed in the flesshe was iustified in the sprete was sene of angels was preached vnto the gentyls was beleved on in erth and receaved vp in glory.
• John 1:1-9 : 1 ¶ In the beginnynge was the worde and the worde was with God: and the worde was God. 2 The same was in the beginnynge with God. 3 All thinges were made by it and with out it was made nothinge that was made. 4 In it was lyfe and the lyfe was ye lyght of men 5 and the lyght shyneth in the darcknes but the darcknes comprehended it not. 6 There was a man sent from God whose name was Iohn. 7 The same cam as a witnes to beare witnes of the lyght that all men through him myght beleve. 8 He was not that lyght: but to beare witnes of the lyght. 9 That was a true lyght which lyghteth all men that come into the worlde. 10 He was in ye worlde and the worlde was made by him: and yet the worlde knewe him not. 11 He cam amonge his (awne) and his awne receaved him not. 12 But as meny as receaved him to them he gave power to be the sonnes of God in yt they beleved on his name: 13 which were borne not of bloude nor of the will of the flesshe nor yet of the will of man: but of God. 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.
• John 3:3 : 3 Iesus answered and sayde vnto him: Verely verely I saye vnto the: except a man be boren a newe he cannot se the kyngdom of God.
• John 3:5 : 5 Iesus answered: verely verely I saye vnto the: except that a man be boren of water and of ye sprete he cannot enter into the kyngdome of god.
• John 3:8 : 8 The wynde bloweth where he listeth and thou hearest his sounde: but canst not tell whence he cometh and whether he goeth. So is every man that is boren of the sprete.
• John 3:13-17 : 13 And no man ascendeth vp to heaven but he that came doune from heaven that is to saye the sonne of man which is in heaven. 14 And as Moses lifte vp the serpent in the wyldernes even so must the sonne of man be lifte vp 15 that none that beleveth in him perisshe: but have eternall lyfe. 16 For God so loveth the worlde yt he hath geven his only sonne that none that beleve in him shuld perisshe: but shuld have everlastinge lyfe. 17 For God sent not his sonne into the worlde to condepne the worlde: but that the worlde through him might be saved.
• John 3:31-36 : 31 He that commeth from an hye is above all: He that is of ye erth is of the erth and speaketh of the erth. He that cometh from heaven is above all 32 and what he hath sene and hearde: that he testifieth: but no man receaveth his testimonye. 33 How be it he that hath receaved hys testimonye hath set to his seale that God is true. 34 For he whom God hath sent speaketh the wordes of God. For God geveth not the sprete by measure. 35 The father loveth the sonne and hath geven all thinges into his honde. 36 He that beleveth on the sonne hath everlastynge lyfe: and he that beleveth not the sonne shall not se lyfe but the wrathe of God abydeth on him.