John 6:26

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

Iesus answered them and sayde: verely verely I saye vnto you: ye seke me not because ye sawe the myracles: but because ye ate of the loves and were filled.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἀπεκρίθη αὐτοῖς ὁ Ἰησοῦς καὶ εἶπεν, Ἀμὴν, ἀμὴν, λέγω ὑμῖν, Ζητεῖτέ με, οὐχ ὅτι εἴδετε σημεῖα, ἀλλʼ ὅτι ἐφάγετε ἐκ τῶν ἄρτων, καὶ ἐχορτάσθητε.

Transliteration

Apekrithē to them the Iēsous and eipen, Amēn, amēn, legō to you, You zēteite me, not because you eidete sēmeia, but because you ephagete from the artōn, and echortasthēte.

Grammar Details

• *Apekrithē*: aorist, indicative, passive, 3rd singular - answered
• *Iēsous*: nominative, masculine, singular - Jesus
• *eipen*: aorist, indicative, active, 3rd singular - said
• *Amēn*: Hebrew transliteration - truly/verily
• *legō*: present, indicative, active, 1st singular - I say/tell
• *zēteite*: present, indicative, active, 2nd plural - you seek
• *eidete*: aorist, indicative, active, 2nd plural - you saw
• *sēmeia*: accusative, neuter, plural - signs
• *ephagete*: aorist, indicative, active, 2nd plural - you ate
• *artōn*: genitive, masculine, plural - loaves/bread
• *echortasthēte*: aorist, indicative, passive, 2nd plural - you were filled/satisfied

Word Meanings

• *Amēn*: truly/verily/certainly
• *sēmeia*: signs/miracles
• *artōn*: loaves/bread
• *echortasthēte*: you were filled/satisfied/had your fill

Referenced Verses

• Jas 4:3-4 : 3 Ye axe and receave not because ye axe a mysse: even to consume it apon youre volupteousnes. 4 Ye advouterars and wemen that breke matrimonie: knowe ye not how yt the freshippe of ye worlde is ennimite to god warde? Whosoever wilbe a frende of the worlde is made the enemie of god.
• Rom 16:18 : 18 For they yt are suche serve not ye Lorde Iesus Christ: but their awne bellyes and with swete preachinges and flatteringe wordes deceave the hertes of the innocetes.
• Phil 2:21 : 21 For all other seke ytir awne and not that which is Iesus Christes
• Phil 3:19 : 19 whose ende is dampnacio whose God is their bely and whose glory is to their shame which are worldely mynded.
• 1 Tim 6:5 : 5 and vayne disputacions of men with corrupte myndes and destitute of the trueth which thynke that lucre is godlines. From soche seperate thy silfe.
• Acts 8:18-21 : 18 When Simo sawe that thorowe layinge on of the Apostles hondes on them the holy goost was geven: he offered the money 19 sayinge: Geve me also this power that on whom soever I put the hondes he maye receave the holy goost. 20 Then sayde Peter vnto him: thy monye perysh with the because thou wenest that the gifte of God maye be obteyned wt money. 21 Thou hast nether parte nor felloushippe in this busines. For thy hert is not ryght in the syght of God.
• 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 6:2 : 2 And a greate multitude folowed him because they had sene his myracles which he dyd on them that were diseased.
• John 6:15 : 15 When Iesus perceaved that they wolde come and take him vp to make him kinge he departed agayne into a mountayne him silfe a lone.
• John 6:24 : 24 Then whe the people sawe that Iesus was not there nether his disciples they also toke shippinge and came to Caparnaum sekinge for Iesus.
• John 6:30 : 30 They sayde vnto him: what signe shewest thou then that we maye se and beleve the? What doest thou worke?
• John 6:47 : 47 Verely verely I saye vnto you he that beleveth on me hath everlastinge lyfe.
• John 6:64 : 64 But ther are some of you that beleve not. For Iesus knewe from the begynnynge which they were that beleved not and who shuld betraye him.