John 8:54

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἀπεκρίθη Ἰησοῦς, Ἐὰν ἐγὼ δοξάζω ἐμαυτόν, ἡ δόξα μου οὐδέν ἐστιν: ἔστιν ὁ Πατήρ μου ὁ δοξάζων με· ὃν ὑμεῖς λέγετε, ὅτι Θεὸς ὑμῶν ἐστιν:

Transliteration

Apekrithē Iēsous, If egō doxazō emauton, the doxa mou ouden estin: estin the Patēr mou the doxazōn me; whom hymeis legete, that Theos hymōn estin:

Grammar Details

• *Apekrithē*: aorist passive, 3rd singular - he answered
• *Iēsous*: nominative, masculine, singular - Jesus
• *egō*: nominative, singular - I
• *doxazō*: present indicative, 1st singular - I glorify
• *emauton*: accusative, reflexive pronoun - myself
• *doxa*: nominative, feminine, singular - glory
• *mou*: genitive, singular - my/of me
• *ouden*: nominative, neuter, singular - nothing
• *estin*: present indicative, 3rd singular - is
• *Patēr*: nominative, masculine, singular - Father
• *doxazōn*: present participle, nominative, masculine, singular - glorifying/one who glorifies
• *me*: accusative, singular - me
• *hymeis*: nominative, plural - you [plural]
• *legete*: present indicative, 2nd plural - you say
• *Theos*: nominative, masculine, singular - God
• *hymōn*: genitive, plural - your/of you

Word Meanings

• *doxazō*: glorify/honor/praise
• *doxa*: glory/honor/praise
• *ouden*: nothing/not at all
• *doxazōn*: glorifying/honoring/praising

Referenced Verses

• John 8:50 : 50 I seke not myne awne prayse: but ther is one that seketh and iudgeth.
• John 17:1 : 1 These wordes spake Iesus and lyfte vp his eyes to heven and sayde: father the houre is come: glorify thy sonne that thy sonne maye glorify the:
• John 17:5 : 5 And now glorify me thou father wt thyn awne selfe with the glory which I had with ye yerre ye worlde was.
• Acts 3:13 : 13 The God of Abraham Isaac and Iacob the God of oure fathers hath glorified his sonne Iesus whom ye delyvered and denyed in the presence of Pylate whe he had iudged him to be lowsed.
• John 7:39 : 39 This spak he of the sprete which they that beleved on him shuld receave. For the holy goost was not yet there because that Iesus was not yet glorifyed.
• John 8:41 : 41 Ye do the dedes of youre father. Then sayde they vnto him: we were not borne of fornicacion. We have one father which is God.
• 2 Pet 1:17 : 17 even then verely when he receaved of god the father honour and glory and when ther came soche a voyce to him from excellent glorie. This is my dere beloved sonne in whom I have delite.
• John 13:31-32 : 31 Whe he was gone out Iesus sayde: now is the sonne of man glorified. And God is glorified by him. 32 Yf God be glorified by him God shall also glorify him in him selfe: and shall strayght waye glorify him.
• John 16:14-15 : 14 He shall glorify me for he shall receave of myne and shall shewe vnto you. 15 All thinges that ye father hath aremyne. Therfore sayd I vnto you that he shall take of myne and shewe vnto you.
• John 2:11 : 11 This beginnynge of miracles dyd Iesus in Cana of Galile and shewed his glory and his disciples beleved on him.
• John 5:22-29 : 22 Nether iudgeth ye father eny ma: but hath comitted all iudgemet vnto the sonne 23 because that all men shuld honoure the sonne eve as they honoure the father. He that honoureth not ye sonne the same honoureth not the father which hath sent him. 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: 27 and hath geven him power also to iudge in that he is the sonne of man. 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.
• John 5:31-32 : 31 Yf I beare witnes of my selfe my witnes is not true. 32 Ther is a nother that beareth witnes of me and I am sure that the witnes whiche he beareth of me is true.
• John 5:41 : 41 I receave not prayse of men.
• John 7:18 : 18 He that speaketh of him selfe seketh his awne prayse. But he that seketh his prayse that sent him the same is true and no vnrightewesnes is in him.
• Rom 2:17-29 : 17 Beholde thou arte called a Iewe and trustest in the lawe and reioysist in God 18 and knowest his will and hast experience of good and bad in that thou arte informed by the lawe: 19 and belevest that thou thy silfe arte a gyde vnto the blynde a lyght to them which are in darcknes 20 an informer of them which lacke discrecio a teacher of vnlearned which hast the ensample of that which ought to be knowen and of the truth in the lawe. 21 But thou which teachest another teachest not thy selfe. Thou preachest a man shuld not steale: and yet thou stealest. 22 Thou sayst a man shuld not commit advoutry: and thou breakest wedlocke. Thou abhorrest ymages and robbest God of his honoure. 23 Thou reioysest in the lawe and thorow breakinge the lawe dishonourest God. 24 For the name of god is evyll spoken of amonge the Gentyls thorowe you as it is written. 25 Circumcisio verely avayleth if thou kepe the lawe. But if thou breake the lawe thy circumcision is made vncircumcision. 26 Therfore if the vncircumcised kepe the ryght thinges contayned in the lawe: shall not his vncircumcision be counted for circumcision? 27 And shall not vncircumcision which is by nature (yf it kepe the lawe) iudge the which beynge vnder the letter and circumcision dost transgresse the lawe? 28 For he is not a Iewe which is a Iewe out warde. Nether is that thynge circumcision which is outwarde in the flesshe. 29 But he is a Iewe which is hid wythin and the circucisio of ye herte is the true circumcision which is in the sprete and not in ye letter whose prayse is not of men but of god.
• 2 Cor 10:18 : 18 For he that prayseth him silfe is not alowed: but he whom the LORde prayseth.
• Eph 1:20-23 : 20 which he wrought in Christ when he raysed him from deeth and set him on his right honde in hevenly thynges 21 above all rule power and myght and dominacion and above all names that are named not in this worlde only but also in the worlde to come: 22 and hath put all thynges vnder his fete and hath made him aboue all thynges ye heed of ye congregacion 23 which is his body and the fulnes of him that filleth all in all thynges.
• Phil 2:9-9 : 9 Wherfore god hath exalted him and geve him a name above all names: 10 that in the name of Iesus shuld every knee bowe bothe of thinges in heve and thinges in erth and thinges vnder ert 11 and that all tonges shuld confesse that Iesus Christ is the LORde vnto the prayse of God the father.
• Heb 5:4-5 : 4 And no man taketh honour vnto him silfe but he that is called of God as was Aaron. 5 Even so lykewise Christ glorified not him silfe to be made the hye prest: but he that sayde vnto him: thou arte my sonne this daye begat I the glorified him.
• 1 Pet 1:12 : 12 vnto which Prophetes it was declared that not vnto them selves but vnto vs they shuld minister the thinges which are now shewed vnto you of them which by ye holy goost sent doune fro heven have preached vnto you the thinges which the angels desyre to beholde.
• 1 Pet 1:21 : 21 sakes which by his meanes have beleved on god that raysed him from deth and glorified him that youre fayth and hope myght be in god.