John 8:19

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

Then sayde they vnto him: where is thy father? Iesus answered: ye nether knowe me nor yet my father. Yf ye had knowen me ye shuld have knowen my father also.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἔλεγον οὖν αὐτῷ, Ποῦ ἐστιν ὁ Πατήρ σου; ἀπεκρίθη ὁ Ἰησοῦς, Οὔτε ἐμὲ οἴδατε, οὔτε τὸν Πατέρα μου: εἰ ἐμὲ ᾔδειτε, καὶ τὸν Πατέρα μου ᾔδειτε ἂν.

Transliteration

They elegon oun to him, Where estin the Patēr of you? Apekrithē Iēsous, Neither me you oidate, nor the Patera of me: if me you ēdeite, also the Patera of me you ēdeite an.

Grammar Details

• *elegon*: imperfect active indicative, 3rd plural - they were saying
• *oun*: inferential conjunction - therefore/then
• *estin*: present active indicative, 3rd singular - is
• *Patēr*: nominative, masculine, singular - Father
• *Apekrithē*: aorist passive indicative, 3rd singular - answered
• *Iēsous*: nominative, masculine, singular - Jesus
• *oidate*: perfect active indicative, 2nd plural - you know
• *Patera*: accusative, masculine, singular - Father
• *ēdeite*: pluperfect active indicative, 2nd plural - you had known
• *an*: particle indicating contingency - would

Word Meanings

• *elegon*: were saying/saying/told
• *Apekrithē*: answered/replied/responded
• *oidate*: know/understand/perceive
• *ēdeite*: had known/understood/perceived

Referenced Verses

• John 16:3 : 3 And suche thinges will they do vnto you because they have not knowen the father nether yet me.
• John 7:28 : 28 Then cryed Iesus in ye temple as he taught sayinge: ye knowe me and whence I am ye knowe. And yet I am not come of my selfe but he yt sent me is true whom ye knowe not.
• John 8:54-55 : 54 Iesus answered: Yf I honoure my selfe myne honoure is nothinge worth. It is my father that honoureth me which ye saye is youre God 55 and ye have not knowen him: but I knowe him. And yf I shuld saye I knowe him not I shuld be a lyar lyke vnto you. But I knowe him and kepe his sayinge.
• 1 Cor 15:34 : 34 Awake truely out of slepe and synne not. For some have not the knowlege of God. I speake this vnto youre rebuke.
• 2 Cor 4:4-6 : 4 in whom ye god of this worlde hath blynded the myndes of them which beleve not lest the light of ye glorious gospell of Christ which is the ymage of god shuld shyne vnto them. 5 For we preache not oure selves but Christ Iesus to be the Lorde and oure selves youre servautes for Iesus sake. 6 For it is God that commauded the light to shyne out of darcknes which hath shyned in oure hertes for to geve the light of the knowledge of the glorie of God in the face of Iesus Christ.
• Gal 4:9 : 9 But now seinge ye knowe god (yee rather are knowe of God) how is it that ye tourne agayne vnto the weake and bedgarly cerimonies whervnto agayne ye desyre afresshe to be in bondage?
• Eph 1:17 : 17 that ye God of oure LORde Iesus Christ and the father of glory myght geve vnto you the sprete of wisdome and open to you the knowledge of him silfe
• Col 1:10 : 10 that ye myght walke worthy of the LORde in all thynges that please beynge frutfull in all good workes and encreasynge in ye knowledge of God
• Col 1:15 : 15 which is the ymage of the invisible god fyrst begotten of all creatures.
• Heb 1:3 : 3 Which sonne beynge the brightnes of his glory and very ymage of his substance bearinge vp all thinges with the worde of his power hath in his awne person pourged oure synnes and is sitten on the right honde of the maiestie an hy
• 1 John 5:20 : 20 We knowe that the sonne of God is come and hath geven vs a mynde to knowe him which is true: and we are in him that is true through his sonne Iesu Christ. This same is very god and eternall lyfe.
• 2 John 1:9 : 9 Whosoever transgresseth and bydeth not in the doctrine of Christ hath not God. He yt endureth in the doctrine of Christ hath bothe the father and the sonne.
• John 10:14-15 : 14 I am that good shepeheerd and knowe myne and am knowe of myne. 15 As my father knoweth me: even so knowe I my father. And I geve my lyfe for the shepe:
• Matt 11:25 : 25 At yt tyme Iesus answered and sayd: I prayse ye o father LORde of heve and erth because thou hast hid these thinges fro the wyse and prudet and hast opened the vnto babes:
• John 1:10 : 10 He was in ye worlde and the worlde was made by him: and yet the worlde knewe him not.
• John 1:18 : 18 No ma hath sene God at eny tyme. The only begotte sonne which is in ye bosome of ye father he hath declared him.
• John 17:3 : 3 This is lyfe eternall that they myght knowe the that only very God and whom thou hast sent Iesus Christ.
• John 15:21 : 21 But all these thinges will they do vnto you for my names sake because they have not knowen him that sent me.
• John 17:25-26 : 25 O ryghteous father ye very worlde hath not knowen the: but I have knowen the and these have knowen that thou hast sent me. 26 And I have declared vnto them thy name and will declare it that the love wher wt thou hast loved me be in them and that I be in them.
• Luke 10:21-22 : 21 That same tyme reioysed Iesus in ye sprete and sayde: I confesse vnto ye father Lorde of heaven and erth yt thou hast hyd these thynges from the wyse and prudent and hast opened them to the babes. Even so father for soo pleased it the. 22 All thinges are geven me of my father. And no man knoweth who the sonne is but the father: nether who the father is save the sonne and he to who the sonne wyll shewe him.
• John 14:6-9 : 6 Iesus sayd vnto him: I am ye waye ye truthe and ye life. And no man cometh vnto the father but by me. 7 Yf ye had knowe me ye had knowe my father also. And now ye knowe him and have sene him. 8 Philip sayd vnto him: Lorde shew vs the father and it suffiseth vs. 9 Iesus sayde vnto him: have I bene so longe tyme wt you: and yet hast thou not knowen me? Philip he yt hath sene me hath sene ye father. And how sayest thou then: shew vs the father?