John 8:37

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

I knowe that ye are Abrahams seed: But ye seke meanes to kyll me because my sayinges have no place in you.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Οἶδα ὅτι σπέρμα Ἀβραάμ ἐστε· ἀλλὰ ζητεῖτέ με ἀποκτεῖναι, ὅτι ὁ λόγος ὁ ἐμὸς οὐ χωρεῖ ἐν ὑμῖν.

Transliteration

Oida that sperma Abraam este; but zēteite me apokteinai, because the logos the emos ou chōrei en you.

Grammar Details

• *Oida*: perfect active indicative, 1st person singular - I know/understand
• *sperma*: nominative neuter singular - seed/offspring
• *Abraam*: genitive masculine singular - of Abraham
• *este*: present active indicative, 2nd person plural - you are
• *zēteite*: present active indicative, 2nd person plural - you seek/try
• *apokteinai*: aorist active infinitive - to kill
• *hoti*: causal conjunction - because
• *logos*: nominative masculine singular - word/message
• *emos*: adjective, nominative masculine singular - my/mine
• *ou*: negative particle - not
• *chōrei*: present active indicative, 3rd person singular - makes progress/advances
• *en*: preposition + dative - in

Word Meanings

• *Oida*: know/understand/am aware
• *sperma*: seed/offspring/descendants
• *zēteite*: seek/try/attempt/desire
• *apokteinai*: to kill/to slay/to put to death
• *logos*: word/message/speech/statement
• *chōrei*: has place/advances/progresses/penetrates/is received

Referenced Verses

• John 7:1 : 1 After that Iesus wet about in Galile and wolde not go about in Iewry for the Iewes sought to kill him.
• 1 Cor 2:14 : 14 For ye naturall man perceaveth not the thinges of the sprete of god. For they are but folysshnes vnto him. Nether can he perceave them because he is spretually examined.
• Matt 13:15 : 15 For this peoples hertes are wexed grosse and their eares were dull of herynge and their eyes have they closed lest they shulde se with their eyes and heare with their eares and shuld vnderstonde with their hertes and shuld tourne that I myght heale them.
• John 5:16-18 : 16 And therfore the Iewes dyd persecute Iesus and sought the meanes to slee him because he had done these thinges on the Saboth daye. 17 And Iesus answered them: my father worketh hidder to and I worke. 18 Therfore the Iewes sought the moare to kill him not only because he had broken the Saboth: but sayde also that God was his father and made him selfe equall with God.
• John 5:44 : 44 How can ye beleve which receave honoure one of another and seke not the honoure that commeth of God only?
• John 7:19 : 19 Dyd not Moses geve you a lawe and yet none of you kepeth ye lawe? Why goo ye aboute to kyll me?
• John 7:25 : 25 Then sayd some of them of Ierusalem: Is not this he who they goo aboute to kyll?
• John 8:6 : 6 And this they sayde to tempt him: that they myght have wherof to accuse him. Iesus stouped doune and with his fynger wrote on the grounde.
• John 8:33 : 33 They answered him: We be Abrahams seede and were never bonde to eny man: why sayest thou then ye shalbe made fre.
• John 8:39-40 : 39 They answered and sayde vnto him: Abraham is oure father. Iesus sayde vnto them. If ye were Abrahams chyldren ye wolde do the dedes of Abraham. 40 But now ye goo about io kyll me a man that have tolde you the truthe which I have herde of god: this dyd not Abraham.
• John 8:43 : 43 Why do ye not knowe my speache? Even because ye cannot abyde the hearynge of my wordes.
• John 8:45-47 : 45 And because I tell you ye trueth therfore ye beleve me not. 46 Which of you can rebuke me of synne? If I saye ye trueth why do not ye beleve me? 47 He that is of God heareth goddes wordes Ye therfore heare them not because ye are not of God.
• John 8:59 : 59 Then toke they vp stones to caste at him. But Iesus hid him selfe and went out of ye temple.
• John 10:31 : 31 Then the Iewes agayne toke up stones to stone him with all.
• John 11:53 : 53 From that daye forth they held a counsell to geder for to put him to deeth.
• John 12:39-43 : 39 Therfore coulde they not beleve because yt Esaias sayth agayne: 40 he hath blinded their eyes and hardened their hertes that they shuld not se with their eyes and vnderstonde with their hertes and shuld be converted and I shuld heale the. 41 Soche thinges sayde Esaias when he sawe his glory and spake of him. 42 Neverthelesse amoge ye chefe rulers many beleved on him. But because of the pharises they wolde not be a knowen of it lest they shuld be excommunicate. 43 For they loved the prayse yt is geven of men more then the prayse that cometh of God.
• Acts 13:26 : 26 Ye men and brethren chyldren of the generacion of Abraham and whosoever amoge you feareth God to you is this worde of salvacio sent.
• Rom 9:7 : 7 nether are they all chyldren strayght waye because they are the seed of Abraham. But in Isaac shall thy seede be called:
• Matt 13:19-22 : 19 Whosoever heareth the worde of ye kingdome and vnderstondeth it not ther cometh the evyll ma and catcheth awaye yt which was sowne in his hert. And this is he which was sowne by the wayesyde. 20 But he yt was sowne in ye stony groude is he which heareth the worde of God and anone wt ioye receaveth i 21 yet hath he no rottes in him selfe and therfore dureth but a season: for assone as tribulacion or persecucion aryseth because of the worde by and by he falleth. 22 He yt was sowne amoge thornes is he yt heareth ye worde of God: but the care of this worlde and the dissaytfulnes of ryches choke ye worde and so is he made vnfrutfull.