John 14:28

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

ye heard that I said to you -- I go away, and I come unto you; if ye did love me, ye would have rejoiced that I said -- I go on to the Father, because my Father is greater than I.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἠκούσατε ὅτι ἐγὼ εἶπον ὑμῖν, Ὑπάγω, καὶ ἔρχομαι πρὸς ὑμᾶς. Εἰ ἠγαπᾶτέ με, ἐχάρητε ἄν, ὅτι εἶπον, Πορεύομαι πρὸς τὸν Πατέρα: ὅτι ὁ Πατήρ μου μείζων μού ἐστιν.

Transliteration

Ēkousate hoti egō eipon hymin, Hypagō, and erchomai pros hymas. If ēgapate me, echarēte an, because eipon, Poreuomai pros ton Patera: because the Patēr of me meizōn mou estin.

Grammar Details

• *Ēkousate*: aorist indicative active, 2nd person plural - you heard
• *hoti*: conjunction - that
• *egō*: nominative, 1st person singular pronoun, emphatic - I
• *eipon*: aorist indicative active, 1st person singular - I said
• *hymin*: dative, 2nd person plural pronoun - to you
• *Hypagō*: present indicative active, 1st person singular - I go away
• *erchomai*: present indicative middle, 1st person singular - I come
• *pros hymas*: preposition + accusative pronoun - to you
• *ēgapate*: imperfect indicative active, 2nd person plural - you were loving
• *me*: accusative, 1st person singular pronoun - me
• *echarēte*: aorist indicative passive, 2nd person plural - you would have rejoiced
• *an*: particle indicating contingency - would
• *Poreuomai*: present indicative middle, 1st person singular - I go
• *pros ton Patera*: preposition + accusative - to the Father
• *Patēr*: nominative, masculine, singular - Father
• *mou*: genitive, 1st person singular pronoun - my/of me
• *meizōn*: nominative, masculine, singular comparative - greater
• *estin*: present indicative, 3rd person singular - is

Word Meanings

• *Ēkousate*: heard/listened to/understood
• *Hypagō*: go away/depart/withdraw
• *erchomai*: come/arrive/return
• *ēgapate*: were loving/were cherishing
• *echarēte*: would have rejoiced/would have been glad
• *Poreuomai*: go/journey/proceed
• *meizōn*: greater/larger/more important

Referenced Verses

• John 14:18 : 18 `I will not leave you bereaved, I come unto you;
• John 14:2-4 : 2 in the house of my Father are many mansions; and if not, I would have told you; I go on to prepare a place for you; 3 and if I go on and prepare for you a place, again do I come, and will receive you unto myself, that where I am ye also may be; 4 and whither I go away ye have known, and the way ye have known.'
• John 14:12 : 12 `Verily, verily, I say to you, he who is believing in me, the works that I do -- that one also shall do, and greater than these he shall do, because I go on to my Father;
• John 5:18 : 18 because of this, then, were the Jews seeking the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the sabbath, but he also called God his own Father, making himself equal to God.
• John 10:29-30 : 29 my Father, who hath given to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to pluck out of the hand of my Father; 30 I and the Father are one.'
• Ps 47:5-7 : 5 God hath gone up with a shout, Jehovah with the sound of a trumpet. 6 Praise God -- praise -- give praise to our king, praise. 7 For king of all the earth `is' God, Give praise, O understanding one.
• John 16:16-22 : 16 a little while, and ye do not behold me, and again a little while, and ye shall see me, because I go away unto the Father.' 17 Therefore said `some' of his disciples one to another, `What is this that he saith to us, A little while, and ye do not behold me, and again a little while, and ye shall see me, and, Because I go away unto the Father?' 18 they said then, `What is this he saith -- the little while? we have not known what he saith.' 19 Jesus, therefore, knew that they were wishing to ask him, and he said to them, `Concerning this do ye seek one with another, because I said, A little while, and you do not behold me, and again a little while, and ye shall see me? 20 verily, verily, I say to you, that ye shall weep and lament, and the world will rejoice; and ye shall be sorrowful, but your sorrow joy will become. 21 `The woman, when she may bear, hath sorrow, because her hour did come, and when she may bear the child, no more doth she remember the anguish, because of the joy that a man was born to the world. 22 `And ye, therefore, now, indeed, have sorrow; and again I will see you, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no one doth take from you,
• John 20:17 : 17 Jesus saith to her, `Be not touching me, for I have not yet ascended unto my Father; and be going on to my brethren, and say to them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father, and to my God, and to your God.'
• John 20:21 : 21 Jesus, therefore, said to them again, `Peace to you; according as the Father hath sent me, I also send you;'
• 1 Cor 15:24-28 : 24 then -- the end, when he may deliver up the reign to God, even the Father, when he may have made useless all rule, and all authority and power -- 25 for it behoveth him to reign till he may have put all the enemies under his feet -- 26 the last enemy is done away -- death; 27 for all things He did put under his feet, and, when one may say that all things have been subjected, `it is' evident that He is excepted who did subject the all things to him, 28 and when the all things may be subjected to him, then the Son also himself shall be subject to Him, who did subject to him the all things, that God may be the all in all.
• Heb 1:2-3 : 2 in these last days did speak to us in a Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He did make the ages; 3 who being the brightness of the glory, and the impress of His subsistence, bearing up also the all things by the saying of his might -- through himself having made a cleansing of our sins, sat down at the right hand of the greatness in the highest,
• Heb 2:9-9 : 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. 10 For it was becoming to Him, because of whom `are' the all things, and through whom `are' the all things, many sons to glory bringing, the author of their salvation through sufferings to make perfect, 11 for both he who is sanctifying and those sanctified `are' all of one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, 12 saying, `I will declare Thy name to my brethren, in the midst of an assembly I will sing praise to Thee;' and again, `I will be trusting on Him;' 13 and again, `Behold I and the children that God did give to me.' 14 Seeing, then, the children have partaken of flesh and blood, he himself also in like manner did take part of the same, that through death he might destroy him having the power of death -- that is, the devil -- 15 and might deliver those, whoever, with fear of death, throughout all their life, were subjects of bondage,
• 1 Pet 1:8 : 8 whom, not having seen, ye love, in whom, now not seeing and believing, ye are glad with joy unspeakable and glorified,
• Rev 1:11 : 11 `I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last;' and, `What thou dost see, write in a scroll, and send to the seven assemblies that `are' in Asia; to Ephesus, and to Smyrna, and to Pergamos, and to Thyatira, and to Sardis, and to Philadelphia, and to Laodicea.'
• Rev 1:17-18 : 17 And when I saw him, I did fall at his feet as dead, and he placed his right hand upon me, saying to me, `Be not afraid; I am the First and the Last, 18 and he who is living, and I did become dead, and, lo, I am living to the ages of the ages. Amen! and I have the keys of the hades and of the death.
• Heb 3:1-4 : 1 Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the apostle and chief priest of our profession, Christ Jesus, 2 being stedfast to Him who did appoint him, as also Moses in all his house, 3 for of more glory than Moses hath this one been counted worthy, inasmuch as more honour than the house hath he who doth build it, 4 for every house is builded by some one, and He who the all things did build `is' God,
• Phil 2:6-9 : 6 who, being in the form of God, thought `it' not robbery to be equal to God, 7 but did empty himself, the form of a servant having taken, in the likeness of men having been made, 8 and in fashion having been found as a man, he humbled himself, having become obedient unto death -- death even of a cross, 9 wherefore, also, God did highly exalt him, and gave to him a name that `is' above every name, 10 that in the name of Jesus every knee may bow -- of heavenlies, and earthlies, and what are under the earth -- 11 and every tongue may confess that Jesus Christ `is' Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
• 1 Cor 11:3 : 3 and I wish you to know that of every man the head is the Christ, and the head of a woman is the husband, and the head of Christ is God.
• Ps 68:9 : 9 A shower of free-will gifts thou shakest out, O God. Thine inheritance, when it hath been weary, Thou hast established it.
• Ps 68:18 : 18 Thou hast ascended on high, Thou hast taken captive captivity, Thou hast taken gifts for men, That even the refractory may rest, O Jah God.
• Isa 42:1 : 1 Lo, My servant, I take hold on him, My chosen one -- My soul hath accepted, I have put My Spirit upon him, Judgment to nations he bringeth forth.
• Isa 49:5-7 : 5 And now, said Jehovah, who is forming me from the belly for a servant to Him, To bring back Jacob unto Him, (Though Israel is not gathered, Yet I am honoured in the eyes of Jehovah, And my God hath been my strength.) 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.' 7 Thus said Jehovah, Redeemer of Israel, His Holy One, To the despised in soul, To the abominated of a nation, To the servant of rulers: `Kings see, and have risen, princes, and worship, For the sake of Jehovah, who is faithful, The Holy of Israel, and He chooseth thee.'
• Isa 53:11 : 11 Of the labour of his soul he seeth -- he is satisfied, Through his knowledge give righteousness Doth the righteous one, My servant, to many, And their iniquities he doth bear.
• Matt 12:18 : 18 `Lo, My servant, whom I did choose, My beloved, in whom My soul did delight, I will put My Spirit upon him, and judgment to the nations he shall declare,
• John 10:38 : 38 and if I do, even if me ye may not believe, the works believe, that ye may know and may believe that in me `is' the Father, and I in Him.'
• John 13:16 : 16 verily, verily, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his lord, nor an apostle greater than he who sent him;
• John 16:7 : 7 `But I tell you the truth; it is better for you that I go away, for if I may not go away, the Comforter will not come unto you, and if I go on, I will send Him unto you;
• Luke 24:51-53 : 51 and it came to pass, in his blessing them, he was parted from them, and was borne up to the heaven; 52 and they, having bowed before him, did turn back to Jerusalem with great joy, 53 and were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen.