John 5:46

American Standard Version (1901)

For if ye believed Moses, ye would believe me; for he wrote of 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 Jehovah thy God will raise up unto thee a prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;
• Deut 18:18-19 : 18 I will raise them up a prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee; and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. 19 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.
• John 1:45 : 45 Philip findeth Nathanael, and saith unto 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 unto this day testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses did say should come;
• Luke 24:27 : 27 And beginning from Moses and from all the prophets, he interpreted 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 unto the Son of God), abideth a priest continually. 4 Now consider how great this man was, unto whom Abraham, the patriarch, gave a tenth out of the chief spoils. 5 And they indeed of the sons of Levi that receive the priest's office have commandment to take tithes of the people according to the law, that is, of their brethren, though these have come out of the loins of Abraham: 6 but he whose genealogy is not counted from them hath taken tithes of Abraham, and hath blessed him that hath the promises. 7 But without any dispute the less is blessed of the better. 8 And here men that die receive tithes; but there one, of whom it is witnessed that he liveth. 9 And, so to say, through Abraham even Levi, who receiveth tithes, hath paid tithes; 10 for he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchizedek met him.
• Gen 12:3 : 3 and I will bless them that bless thee, and him that curseth thee will I curse: and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
• Num 21:8-9 : 8 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a standard: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he seeth it, shall live. 9 And Moses made a serpent of brass, and set it upon the standard: and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked unto the serpent of brass, he lived.
• Num 24:17-18 : 17 I see him, but not now; I behold him, but not nigh: There shall come forth a star out of Jacob, And a sceptre shall rise out of Israel, And shall smite through the corners of Moab, And break down all the sons of tumult. 18 And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also shall be a possession, [who were] his enemies; While Israel doeth valiantly.
• Gen 49:10 : 10 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, Nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, Until Shiloh come; And unto him shall the obedience of the peoples be.
• Gen 3:15 : 15 and I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed: he shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
• Gen 22:18 : 18 and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.
• Gen 28:14 : 14 and thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
• Gen 18:18 : 18 seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
• Rom 10:4 : 4 For Christ is the end of the law unto righteousness to every one that believeth.
• Gal 2:19 : 19 For I through the law died unto the law, that I might live unto 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 every one who continueth not 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 every one that hangeth on a tree:
• Gal 3:24 : 24 So that the law is become our tutor [to bring us] unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.
• Gal 4:21-31 : 21 Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law? 22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, one by the handmaid, and one by the freewoman. 23 Howbeit the [son] by the handmaid is born after the flesh; but the [son] by the freewoman [is born] through promise. 24 Which things contain an allegory: for these [women] are two covenants; one from mount Sinai, bearing children unto bondage, which is Hagar. 25 Now this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia and answereth to the Jerusalem that now is: for she is in bondage with her children. 26 But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is our mother. 27 For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; Break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: For more are the children of the desolate than of her that hath the husband. 28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise. 29 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him [that was born] after the Spirit, so also it is now. 30 Howbeit what saith the scripture? Cast out the handmaid and her son: for the son of the handmaid shall not inherit with the son of the freewoman. 31 Wherefore, brethren, we are not children of a handmaid, but of the freewoman.