John 5:19

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

Then answered Iesus and sayde vnto them: verely verely I saye vnto you: the sonne can do no thinge of him selfe but that he seeth ye father do. For whatsoever he doeth yt doeth the sonne also.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἀπεκρίνατο οὖν ὁ Ἰησοῦς καὶ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς, Ἀμὴν, ἀμὴν, λέγω ὑμῖν, Οὐ δύναται ὁ Υἱὸς ποιεῖν ἀφʼ ἑαυτοῦ οὐδέν, ἐὰν μή τι βλέπῃ τὸν Πατέρα ποιοῦντα: ἃ γὰρ ἂν ἐκεῖνος ποιῇ, ταῦτα καὶ ὁ Υἱὸς ὁμοίως ποιεῖ.

Transliteration

Apekrinato oun the Iēsous and eipen to them, Amēn, amēn, I legō to you, Not dynatai the Huios poiein from heautou ouden, if not anything blepē the Patera poiounta: whatever for that one poiē, these things also the Huios homoiōs poiei.

Grammar Details

• *Apekrinato*: aorist middle indicative, 3rd singular of *apokrinomai* - answered
• *oun*: inferential particle - therefore/so
• *Iēsous*: noun, nominative, masculine, singular - Jesus
• *eipen*: aorist active indicative, 3rd singular of *legō* - said
• *autois*: personal pronoun, dative, masculine, plural - to them
• *Amēn*: Hebrew term transliterated - truly/verily
• *legō*: present active indicative, 1st singular - I say/tell
• *hymin*: personal pronoun, dative, 2nd plural - to you
• *Ou dynatai*: present middle indicative, 3rd singular of *dynamai* - is not able
• *Huios*: noun, nominative, masculine, singular - Son
• *poiein*: present active infinitive of *poieō* - to do
• *aph' heautou*: prepositional phrase - from himself
• *ouden*: adjective, accusative, neuter, singular - nothing
• *ean mē*: conditional phrase - unless/if not
• *ti*: indefinite pronoun, accusative, neuter, singular - anything
• *blepē*: present active subjunctive, 3rd singular of *blepō* - he may see
• *Patera*: noun, accusative, masculine, singular - Father
• *poiounta*: present active participle, accusative, masculine, singular - doing
• *ha*: relative pronoun, accusative, neuter, plural - whatever things
• *gar*: postpositive conjunction - for
• *an*: modal particle with subjunctive - would/may
• *ekeinos*: demonstrative pronoun, nominative, masculine, singular - that one
• *poiē*: present active subjunctive, 3rd singular of *poieō* - may do
• *tauta*: demonstrative pronoun, accusative, neuter, plural - these things
• *kai*: conjunction - also/even
• *homoiōs*: adverb - likewise/in the same way
• *poiei*: present active indicative, 3rd singular of *poieō* - does

Word Meanings

• *Amēn, amēn*: truly, truly/most assuredly
• *dynatai*: is able/can/has power
• *aph' heautou*: from himself/of his own accord
• *blepē*: may see/observes/perceives
• *poiounta*: doing/performing/acting
• *homoiōs*: likewise/in the same way/similarly

Referenced Verses

• John 8:28 : 28 Then sayde Iesus vnto them: when ye have lyft vp an hye the sonne of man then shall ye knowe that I am he and that I do nothinge of my selfe: but as my father hath taught me even so I speake:
• John 12:49 : 49 For I have not spoken of my selfe: but the father which sent me he gave me a commaundemet what I shuld saye and what I shuld speake.
• John 14:10 : 10 Belevest thou not that I am in ye father and the father in me? The wordes that I speake vnto you I speakee not of my selfe: but ye father that dwelleth in me is he that doeth ye workes.
• John 5:28-30 : 28 Marvayle not at this ye houre shall come in the which all yt are in the graves shall heare his voice 29 and shall come forthe: they that have done good vnto the resurreccion of lyfe: and they that have done evyll vnto the resurreccion of dampnacion. 30 I can of myne awne selfe do nothinge at all. As I heare I iudge and my iudgemet is iust because I seke not myne awne will but the will of ye father which hath sent me.
• John 11:25-26 : 25 Iesus sayde vnto her: I am the resurreccion and the lyfe: He that beleveth on me ye though he were deed yet shall he lyve. 26 And whosoever lyveth and belevest on me shall never dye. Beleveth thou this?
• Rom 8:11 : 11 Wherfore if the sprite of him that raysed vppe Iesus fro deeth dwell in you: even he that raysed vp Christ from deeth shall quycken youre mortall bodyes because that this sprite dwelleth in you.
• 1 Pet 3:18 : 18 For as moche as Christ hath once suffered for synnes ye iuste for ye vniuste forto bringe vs to God and was kylled as pertayninge to the flesshe: but was quyckened in the sprete.
• Col 1:16 : 16 For by him were all thynges created thynges that are in heven and thynges that are in erth: thynges visible and thynges invisible: whether they be maieste or lordshippe ether rule or power. All thinges are creatyd by hym and in him
• 1 Cor 15:12 : 12 If Christ be preached how that he rose fro deeth: how saye some that are amoge you that ther is no resurreccion from deeth?
• 2 Cor 4:14 : 14 For we knowe that he which raysed vp the Lorde Iesus shall rayse vp vs also by the meanes of Iesus and shall seet vs with you.
• 2 Cor 5:10 : 10 For we must all appere before the iudgement seate of Christ that every man maye receave the workes of his body accordynge to that he hath done whether it be good or bad?
• 2 Cor 12:9-9 : 9 And he sayde vnto me: my grace is sufficient for the. For my stregth is made perfact thorow weaknes. Very gladly therfore will I reioyce of my weaknes that the strength of Christ maye dwell in me 10 Therfore have I delectacion in infirmities in rebukes in nede in persecucions in anguyshe for Christis sake. For when I am weake then am I stronge.
• Eph 1:18-19 : 18 and lighten the eyes of youre myndes yt ye myght knowe what that hope is where vnto he hath called you and what the riches of his glorious inheritaunce is apon the sainctes 19 and what is the excedynge greatnes of his power to vs warde which beleve accordynge to the workynge of that his mighty power
• Eph 2:5 : 5 even when we were deed by synne hath quickened vs together in Christ (for by grace are ye saved)
• Eph 3:16 : 16 that he wolde graunt you acordynge to the ryches of his glory that ye maye be strenghted with myght by his sprete in the inner man
• Phil 3:21 : 21 which shall chaunge oure vile bodies that they maye be fassioned lyke vnto his glorious body acordinge to the workynge wherby he is able to subdue all thinges vnto hym silfe.
• Phil 4:13 : 13 I can do all thynges thorow the helpe of Christ which strengtheth me.
• John 9:4 : 4 I must worke the workes of him that sent me whyll it is daye. The nyght cometh when no man can worke.
• John 10:18 : 18 No man taketh it from me: but I put it awaye of my selfe. I have power to put it from me and have power to take it agayne: This comaundment have I receaved of my father.
• John 14:16-23 : 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.
• Acts 2:24 : 24 whom God hath raysed vp and lowsed the sorowes of deeth because it was vnpossible that he shuld be holden of it.
• Rom 6:4 : 4 We are buryed with him by baptim for to dye that lykewyse as Christ was raysed vp from deeth by the glorye of the father: eve so we also shuld walke in a newe lyfe.
• Gen 1:1 : 1 ¶ In the begynnynge God created heaven and erth.
• Gen 1:26 : 26 And God sayd: let vs make man in oure symilitude ad after oure lycknesse: that he may have rule over the fysh of the see and over the foules of the ayre and over catell and over all the erth and over all wormes that crepe on the erth.
• Exod 4:11 : 11 And the Lorde sayde vnto hi: who hath made mas mouth, or who hath made the domme or the deaff, the seynge or the blynde? haue not I the Lorde?
• Luke 21:15 : 15 for I will geve you a mouth and wisdome where agaynste all youre adversarys shall not be able to speake nor resist.
• John 2:19 : 19 Iesus answered and sayd vnto them: destroye this temple and in thre dayes I will reare it vp agayne.
• 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 5:21 : 21 For lykwyse as the father rayseth vp ye deed and quickeneth them even so the sonne quyckeneth whom he will.
• John 5:24-26 : 24 Verely verely I saye vnto you: He that heareth my wordes and beleveth on him that sent me hath everlastinge lyfe and shall not come into damnacion: but is scaped fro deth vnto lyfe. 25 Verely verely I saye vnto you: the tyme shall come and now is when the deed shall heare the voyce of the sonne of God. And they yt heare shall live. 26 For as the father hath life in him silfe: so lyke wyse hath he geven to ye sonne to have lyfe in him silfe:
• Col 1:11 : 11 strengthed with all myght thorowe hys glorious power vnto all pacience and longe sufferynge with ioyfulnes
• 1 Thess 4:14 : 14 For yf we beleve that Iesus dyed and rose agayne: even so them also which slepe by IeIesus will God brynge agayne with 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.