John 20:17

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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.'

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Λέγει αὐτῇ ὁ Ἰησοῦς, Μή μου ἅπτου· οὔπω γὰρ ἀναβέβηκα πρὸς τὸν Πατέρα μου: πορεύου δὲ πρὸς τοὺς ἀδελφούς μου, καὶ εἰπὲ αὐτοῖς, Ἀναβαίνω πρὸς τὸν Πατέρα μου, καὶ Πατέρα ὑμῶν· καὶ Θεόν μου, καὶ Θεὸν ὑμῶν.

Transliteration

Legei to her the Iesous, Not of me haptou; not yet for I have anabebeka pros the Patera of me: poreuou but pros the adelphous of me, and eipe to them, I anabaino pros the Patera of me, and Patera of you; and Theon of me, and Theon of you.

Grammar Details

• *Legei*: present active indicative 3rd person singular - says/is saying
• *Iesous*: nominative masculine singular - Jesus
• *haptou*: present middle imperative 2nd person singular - touch/cling to
• *anabebeka*: perfect active indicative 1st person singular - I have ascended/gone up
• *pros*: preposition with accusative - to/toward
• *Patera*: accusative masculine singular - Father
• *poreuou*: present middle imperative 2nd person singular - go/proceed
• *adelphous*: accusative masculine plural - brothers/brethren
• *eipe*: aorist active imperative 2nd person singular - tell/say
• *anabaino*: present active indicative 1st person singular - I am ascending/going up
• *Theon*: accusative masculine singular - God

Word Meanings

• *Legei*: says/tells/speaks
• *haptou*: touch/cling to/hold on to
• *anabebeka*: have ascended/gone up (completed action with present effect)
• *pros*: to/toward/with
• *Patera*: Father
• *poreuou*: go/proceed/journey
• *adelphous*: brothers/brethren/fellow believers
• *eipe*: tell/say (command)
• *anabaino*: am ascending/going up (present, ongoing)
• *Theon*: God/Deity

Referenced Verses

• Heb 2:11-13 : 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.'
• Heb 8:10 : 10 because this `is' the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, saith the Lord, giving My laws into their mind, and upon their hearts I will write them, and I will be to them for a God, and they shall be to Me for a people;
• Heb 11:16 : 16 but now they long for a better, that is, an heavenly, wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for He did prepare for them a city.
• 1 Pet 1:3 : 3 Blessed `is' the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to the abundance of His kindness did beget us again to a living hope, through the rising again of Jesus Christ out of the dead,
• 1 John 3:2 : 2 beloved, now, children of God are we, and it was not yet manifested what we shall be, and we have known that if he may be manifested, like him we shall be, because we shall see him as he is;
• Rev 21:3 : 3 and I heard a great voice out of the heaven, saying, `Lo, the tabernacle of God `is' with men, and He will tabernacle with them, and they shall be His peoples, and God Himself shall be with them -- their God,
• Rev 21:7 : 7 he who is overcoming shall inherit all things, and I will be to him -- a God, and he shall be to me -- the son,
• Gen 17:7-8 : 7 `And I have established My covenant between Me and thee, and thy seed after thee, to their generations, for a covenant age-during, to become God to thee, and to thy seed after thee; 8 and I have given to thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojournings, the whole land of Canaan, for a possession age-during, and I have become their God.'
• Eph 4:8-9 : 8 wherefore, he saith, `Having gone up on high he led captive captivity, and gave gifts to men,' -- 9 and that, he went up, what is it except that he also went down first to the lower parts of the earth? 10 he who went down is the same also who went up far above all the heavens, that He may fill all things --
• 2 Kgs 7:9 : 9 And they say one unto another, `We are not doing right this day; a day of tidings it `is', and we are keeping silent; and -- we have waited till the light of the morning, then hath punishment found us; and now, come and we go in and declare to the house of the king.'
• Ps 22:22 : 22 I declare Thy name to my brethren, In the midst of the assembly I praise Thee.
• Ps 43:4 : 4 And I go in unto the altar of God, Unto God, the joy of my rejoicing. And I thank Thee with a harp, O God, my God.
• Ps 48:14 : 14 That this God `is' our God -- To the age and for ever, He -- he doth lead us over death!
• 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.
• Ps 89:26 : 26 He proclaimeth me: `Thou `art' my Father, My God, and the rock of my salvation.'
• Isa 41:10 : 10 Be not afraid, for with thee I `am', Look not around, for I `am' thy God, I have strengthened thee, Yea, I have helped thee, yea, I upheld thee, With the right hand of My righteousness.
• Jer 31:33 : 33 For this `is' the covenant that I make, With the house of Israel, after those days, An affirmation of Jehovah, I have given My law in their inward part, And on their heart I do write it, And I have been to them for God, And they are to me for a people.
• Jer 32:38 : 38 and they have been to Me for a people, and I am to them for God;
• Ezek 36:28 : 28 And ye have dwelt in the land that I have given to your fathers, And ye have been to Me for a people, And I -- I am to you for God.
• Ezek 37:27 : 27 And My tabernacle hath been over them, And I have been to them for God, And they have been to Me for a people.
• Zech 13:7-9 : 7 Sword, awake against My shepherd, And against a hero -- My fellow, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts. Smite the shepherd, and scattered is the flock, And I have put back My hand on the little ones. 8 And it hath come to pass, In all the land, an affirmation of Jehovah, Two parts in it are cut off -- they expire, And the third is left in it. 9 And I have brought the third into fire, And refined them like a refining of silver, And have tried them like a trying of gold, It doth call in My name, and I answer it, I have said, `My people it `is',' And it saith, `Jehovah `is' my God!'
• Matt 12:50 : 50 for whoever may do the will of my Father who is in the heavens, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.'
• Matt 25:40 : 40 `And the king answering, shall say to them, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did `it' to one of these my brethren -- the least -- to me ye did `it'.
• Matt 28:7 : 7 and having gone quickly, say ye to his disciples, that he rose from the dead; and lo, he doth go before you to Galilee, there ye shall see him; lo, I have told you.'
• Matt 28:9-9 : 9 and as they were going to tell to his disciples, then lo, Jesus met them, saying, `Hail!' and they having come near, laid hold of his feet, and did bow to him. 10 Then saith Jesus to them, `Fear ye not, go away, tell to my brethren that they may go away to Galilee, and there they shall see me.'
• Mark 16:19 : 19 The Lord, then, indeed, after speaking to them, was received up to the heaven, and sat on the right hand of God;
• Luke 10:4 : 4 carry no bag, no scrip, nor sandals; and salute no one on the way;
• Luke 24:49-51 : 49 `And, lo, I do send the promise of my Father upon you, but ye -- abide ye in the city of Jerusalem till ye be clothed with power from on high.' 50 And he led them forth without -- unto Bethany, and having lifted up his hands he did bless them, 51 and it came to pass, in his blessing them, he was parted from them, and was borne up to the heaven;
• John 1:12-13 : 12 but as many as did receive him to them he gave authority to become sons of God -- to those believing in his name, 13 who -- not of blood nor of a will of flesh, nor of a will of man but -- of God were begotten.
• John 7:33 : 33 Jesus, therefore, said to them, `Yet a little time I am with you, and I go away unto Him who sent me;
• John 13:1 : 1 And before the feast of the passover, Jesus knowing that his hour hath come, that he may remove out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own who `are' in the world -- to the end he loved them.
• John 13:3 : 3 Jesus knowing that all things the Father hath given to him -- into `his' hands, and that from God he came forth, and unto God he goeth,
• John 14:2 : 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;
• John 14:6 : 6 Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;
• John 14:28 : 28 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.
• John 16:28 : 28 I came forth from the Father, and have come to the world; again I leave the world, and go on unto the Father.'
• John 17:5 : 5 `And now, glorify me, Thou Father, with Thyself, with the glory that I had before the world was, with Thee;
• John 17:11 : 11 and no more am I in the world, and these are in the world, and I come unto Thee. Holy Father, keep them in Thy name, whom Thou hast given to me, that they may be one as we;
• John 17:25 : 25 `Righteous Father, also the world did not know Thee, and I knew Thee, and these have known that Thou didst send me,
• John 20:27 : 27 then he saith to Thomas, `Bring thy finger hither, and see my hands, and bring thy hand, and put `it' to my side, and become not unbelieving, but believing.'
• Rom 8:14-17 : 14 for as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God; 15 for ye did not receive a spirit of bondage again for fear, but ye did receive a spirit of adoption in which we cry, `Abba -- Father.' 16 The Spirit himself doth testify with our spirit, that we are children of God; 17 and if children, also heirs, heirs, indeed, of God, and heirs together of Christ -- if, indeed, we suffer together, that we may also be glorified together.
• Rom 8:29 : 29 because whom He did foreknow, He also did fore-appoint, conformed to the image of His Son, that he might be first-born among many brethren;
• 2 Cor 6:18 : 18 and I will be to you for a Father, and ye -- ye shall be to Me for sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.'
• Gal 3:26 : 26 for ye are all sons of God through the faith in Christ Jesus,
• Gal 4:6-7 : 6 and because ye are sons, God did send forth the spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, `Abba, Father!' 7 so that thou art no more a servant, but a son, and if a son, also an heir of God through Christ.
• Eph 1:17-23 : 17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the recognition of him, 18 the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, for your knowing what is the hope of His calling, and what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, 19 and what the exceeding greatness of His power to us who are believing, according to the working of the power of His might, 20 which He wrought in the Christ, having raised him out of the dead, and did set `him' at His right hand in the heavenly `places', 21 far above all principality, and authority, and might, and lordship, and every name named, not only in this age, but also in the coming one; 22 and all things He did put under his feet, and did give him -- head over all things to the assembly, 23 which is his body, the fulness of Him who is filling the all in all,
• 2 Kgs 4:29 : 29 And he saith to Gehazi, `Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thy hand, and go; when thou dost meet a man, thou dost not salute him; and when a man doth salute thee, thou dost not answer him; and thou hast laid my staff on the face of the youth.'