John 5:46

Webster's Bible (1833)

For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Εἰ γὰρ ἐπιστεύετε Μωσῇ, ἐπιστεύετε ἂν ἐμοί: περὶ γὰρ ἐμοῦ ἐκεῖνος ἔγραψεν.

Transliteration

If for episteuete Mōsē, episteuete an me: concerning for me that one egrapsen.

Grammar Details

• *Ei*: conditional conjunction - if
• *gar*: postpositive conjunction - for
• *episteuete*: imperfect active indicative, 2nd plural of *pisteuō* - you were believing
• *Mōsē*: noun, dative, masculine, singular - Moses
• *an*: modal particle with imperfect - would
• *emoi*: personal pronoun, dative, 1st singular - me
• *peri*: preposition with genitive - concerning/about
• *emou*: personal pronoun, genitive, 1st singular - me
• *ekeinos*: demonstrative pronoun, nominative, masculine, singular - that one
• *egrapsen*: aorist active indicative, 3rd singular of *graphō* - wrote

Word Meanings

• *episteuete*: you were believing/you believed
• *episteuete an*: you would believe/you would have believed
• *egrapsen*: wrote/has written

Referenced Verses

• Deut 18:15 : 15 Yahweh your God will raise up to you a prophet from the midst of you, of your brothers, like me; to him you shall listen;
• Deut 18:18-19 : 18 I will raise them up a prophet from among their brothers, like you; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him. 19 It shall happen, that whoever will not listen to my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.
• John 1:45 : 45 Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, "We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph."
• Acts 26:22 : 22 Having therefore obtained the help that is from God, I stand to this day testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would happen,
• Luke 24:27 : 27 Beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he explained to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.
• Heb 7:1-9 : 1 For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of God Most High, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, 2 to whom also Abraham divided a tenth part of all (being first, by interpretation, king of righteousness, and then also king of Salem, which is king of peace; 3 without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God), remains a priest continually. 4 Now consider how great this man was, to whom even Abraham, the patriarch, gave a tenth out of the best spoils. 5 They indeed of the sons of Levi who receive the priest's office have a commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brothers, though these have come out of the loins of Abraham, 6 but he whose genealogy is not counted from them has taken tithes of Abraham, and has blessed him who has the promises. 7 But without any dispute the less is blessed by the better. 8 Here people who die receive tithes, but there one receives tithes of whom it is testified that he lives. 9 So to say, through Abraham even Levi, who receives tithes, has paid tithes, 10 for he was yet in the loins of his father when Melchizedek met him.
• Gen 12:3 : 3 I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you. In you will all of the families of the earth be blessed."
• Num 21:8-9 : 8 Yahweh said to Moses, Make you a fiery serpent, and set it on a standard: and it shall happen, that everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live. 9 Moses made a serpent of brass, and set it on the standard: and it happened, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked to the serpent of brass, he lived.
• Num 24:17-18 : 17 I see him, but not now; I see him, but not near: There shall come forth a star out of Jacob, A scepter shall rise out of Israel, Shall strike through the corners of Moab, Break down all the sons of tumult. 18 Edom shall be a possession, Seir also shall be a possession, [who were] his enemies; While Israel does valiantly.
• Gen 49:10 : 10 The scepter will not depart from Judah, Nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, Until he comes to whom it belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be.
• Gen 3:15 : 15 I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel."
• Gen 22:18 : 18 In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice."
• Gen 28:14 : 14 Your seed will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your seed will all the families of the earth be blessed.
• Gen 18:18 : 18 seeing that Abraham has surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?
• Rom 10:4 : 4 For Christ is the fulfillment{or, completion, or end} of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
• Gal 2:19 : 19 For I, through the law, died to the law, that I might live to God.
• Gal 3:10 : 10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who doesn't continue in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them."
• Gal 3:13 : 13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, "Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,"
• Gal 3:24 : 24 So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
• Gal 4:21-31 : 21 Tell me, you that desire to be under the law, don't you listen to the law? 22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the handmaid, and one by the free woman. 23 However, the son by the handmaid was born according to the flesh, but the son by the free woman was born through promise. 24 These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar. 25 For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to the Jerusalem that exists now, for she is in bondage with her children. 26 But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all. 27 For it is written, "Rejoice, you barren who don't bear. Break forth and shout, you that don't travail. For more are the children of the desolate than of her who has a husband." 28 Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are children of promise. 29 But as then, he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now. 30 However what does the Scripture say? "Throw out the handmaid and her son, for the son of the handmaid will not inherit with the son of the free woman." 31 So then, brothers, we are not children of a handmaid, but of the free woman.