John 12:32

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and I, if I may be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto myself.'

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Κἀγὼ, ἐὰν ὑψωθῶ ἐκ τῆς γῆς, πάντας ἑλκύσω πρὸς ἐμαυτόν.

Transliteration

And I, if I be hypsōthō from the gēs, all will helkysō pros emauton.

Grammar Details

• *hypsōthō*: aorist passive subjunctive, 1st person singular - might be lifted up/exalted
• *gēs*: genitive feminine singular - earth/land/ground
• *helkysō*: future active indicative, 1st person singular - will draw/drag/pull
• *pros*: preposition with accusative - to/toward
• *emauton*: accusative masculine singular reflexive pronoun - myself

Word Meanings

• *hypsōthō*: be lifted up/exalted/raised (refers both to crucifixion and exaltation)
• *gēs*: earth/land/ground/soil
• *helkysō*: will draw/drag/pull/attract
• *pros*: to/toward/with

Referenced Verses

• John 6:44 : 44 no one is able to come unto me, if the Father who sent me may not draw him, and I will raise him up in the last day;
• John 8:28 : 28 Jesus, therefore, said to them, `When ye may lift up the Son of Man then ye will know that I am `he'; and of myself I do nothing, but according as my Father did teach me, these things I speak;
• John 3:14 : 14 `And as Moses did lift up the serpent in the wilderness, so it behoveth the Son of Man to be lifted up,
• 1 Tim 2:6 : 6 who did give himself a ransom for all -- the testimony in its own times --
• Heb 2:9 : 9 and him who was made some little less than messengers we see -- Jesus -- because of the suffering of the death, with glory and honour having been crowned, that by the grace of God for every one he might taste of death.
• 1 Pet 2:24 : 24 who our sins himself did bear in his body, upon the tree, that to the sins having died, to the righteousness we may live; by whose stripes ye were healed,
• Rom 5:17-19 : 17 for if by the offence of the one the death did reign through the one, much more those, who the abundance of the grace and of the free gift of the righteousness are receiving, in life shall reign through the one -- Jesus Christ. 18 So, then, as through one offence to all men `it is' to condemnation, so also through one declaration of `Righteous' `it is' to all men to justification of life; 19 for as through the disobedience of the one man, the many were constituted sinners: so also through the obedience of the one, shall the many be constituted righteous.
• Gal 3:13 : 13 Christ did redeem us from the curse of the law, having become for us a curse, for it hath been written, `Cursed is every one who is hanging on a tree,'
• John 1:7 : 7 this one came for testimony, that he might testify about the Light, that all might believe through him;
• 1 John 2:2 : 2 and he -- he is a propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world,
• Rev 5:9 : 9 and they sing a new song, saying, `Worthy art thou to take the scroll, and to open the seals of it, because thou wast slain, and didst redeem us to God in thy blood, out of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation,
• Hos 11:4 : 4 With cords of man I do draw them, With thick cords of love, And I am to them as a raiser up of a yoke on their jaws, And I incline unto him -- I feed `him'.
• Deut 21:22-23 : 22 `And when there is in a man a sin -- a cause of death, and he hath been put to death, and thou hast hanged him on a tree, 23 his corpse doth not remain on the tree, for thou dost certainly bury him in that day -- for a thing lightly esteemed of God `is' the hanged one -- and thou dost not defile thy ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee -- an inheritance.
• John 19:17 : 17 and bearing his cross, he went forth to the place called `Place' of a Skull, which is called in Hebrew Golgotha;
• 1 Pet 3:18 : 18 because also Christ once for sin did suffer -- righteous for unrighteous -- that he might lead us to God, having been put to death indeed, in the flesh, and having been made alive in the spirit,
• 2 Sam 18:9 : 9 And Absalom meeteth before the servants of David, and Absalom is riding on the mule, and the mule cometh in under an entangled bough of the great oak, and his head taketh hold on the oak, and he is placed between the heavens and the earth, and the mule that `is' under him hath passed on.
• Ps 22:16-18 : 16 And to the dust of death thou appointest me, For surrounded me have dogs, A company of evil doers have compassed me, Piercing my hands and my feet. 17 I count all my bones -- they look expectingly, They look upon me, 18 They apportion my garments to themselves, And for my clothing they cause a lot to fall.
• Song 1:4 : 4 Draw me: after thee we run, The king hath brought me into his inner chambers, We do joy and rejoice in thee, We mention thy loves more than wine, Uprightly they have loved thee!
• Isa 49:6 : 6 And He saith, `It hath been a light thing That thou art to Me for a servant To raise up the tribes of Jacob, And the preserved of Israel to bring back, And I have given thee for a light of nations, To be My salvation unto the end of the earth.'
• John 12:34 : 34 the multitude answered him, `We heard out of the law that the Christ doth remain -- to the age; and how dost thou say, That it behoveth the Son of Man to be lifted up? who is this -- the Son of Man?'