John 14:1

Bishops' Bible (1568)

And he sayde vnto his disciples, Let not your hearte be troubled: Ye beleue in god, beleue also in me.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Μὴ ταρασσέσθω ὑμῶν ἡ καρδία: πιστεύετε εἰς τὸν Θεόν, καὶ εἰς ἐμὲ πιστεύετε.

Transliteration

Mē tarassesthō of you the kardia: pisteuete into the Theos, and into eme pisteuete.

Grammar Details

• *Mē tarassesthō*: negative imperative, 3rd person singular, present passive - let not be troubled
• *kardia*: nominative, feminine, singular - heart
• *pisteuete*: imperative or indicative, 2nd person plural, present active - believe/you believe
• *Theos*: accusative, masculine, singular - God
• *eme*: accusative, 1st person singular pronoun - me
• ὑμῶν: genitive, 2nd person plural pronoun - of you/your

Word Meanings

• *tarassesthō*: be troubled/be agitated/be disturbed
• *kardia*: heart/inner self/mind/will
• *pisteuete*: can be read as indicative (you believe) or imperative (believe!)

Referenced Verses

• John 16:22-23 : 22 And ye nowe therefore haue sorowe: but I wyll see you agayne, and your heartes shall reioyce, and your ioy shall no man take from you. 23 And in that day shall ye aske me no question. Ueryly veryly I say vnto you, whatsoeuer ye shal aske the father in my name, he wyll geue it you.
• John 14:27-28 : 27 Peace I leaue with you, my peace I geue vnto you: Not as the worlde geueth, geue I vnto you. Let not your heartes be greeued, neither feare. 28 Ye haue hearde howe I sayde vnto you, I go away, and come agayne vnto you. Yf ye loued me, ye woulde veryly reioyce, because I sayde, I go vnto the father: for the father is greater then I.
• Isa 12:2-3 : 2 Beholde, God is my saluation, in who I wyll trust and not be afrayde: for the Lorde God is my strength and my song, he also is become my saluation. 3 Therfore with ioy shall ye drawe water out of the welles of saluation:
• Isa 26:3 : 3 By an assured purpose wylt thou preserue perfect peace, because they put their trust in thee.
• Ps 42:5-6 : 5 Why art thou so discouraged O my soule, & why art thou so vnquiet within me? attende thou vpon the Lorde, for I will yet acknowledge him only to be a present saluation. 6 My Lorde, my soule is discouraged within me: because I remember thee from the lande of Iordane, and from the litle hyll Hermonim.
• Eph 1:12-13 : 12 That we shoulde be vnto the prayse of his glorie, whiche before beleued in Christe. 13 In whom also ye, after that ye heard the worde of trueth, the Gospell of your saluation, wherin also after that ye beleued, were sealed with the holy spirite of promyse,
• Heb 12:12-13 : 12 Strayghten vp therfore the handes which were let downe, and the weake knees: 13 And make ryght steppes vnto your feete, lest that which is haltyng, turne you out of the way: but let it rather be healed.
• 1 Pet 1:21 : 21 Which by his meanes do beleue on God that raysed hym vp from death, and glorified hym, that ye might haue fayth and hope towarde God:
• Eph 3:14-17 : 14 For this cause I bowe my knees vnto the father of our Lorde Iesus Christe, 15 Of who all the famyly in heauen and earth is named: 16 That he would graunt you, according to the rychesse of his glorie, to be strengthed with myght by his spirite in the inner man. 17 That Christe may dwell in your heartes by fayth: that ye beyng rooted and grounded in loue,
• 1 Thess 3:3-4 : 3 That no man shoulde be moued in these afflictions: For ye your selues knowe, that we are appoynted therevnto. 4 For veryly when we were with you, we tolde you before that we shoulde suffer tribulation, euen as it came to passe, and as ye knowe.
• Ps 42:8-9 : 8 God wyll graunt his louing kindnesse on the day tyme: and in the nyght season I wyll syng of hym, and make my prayer vnto the Lorde of my lyfe. 9 I wyll say vnto the Lorde of my strength: why hast thou forgotten me, why go I thus heauyly through the oppression of myne enemie? 10 It was as a sworde in my bones, when myne enemies dyd cast me in the teeth: in saying dayly vnto me, where is nowe thy Lorde? 11 Why art thou so discouraged O my soule, & why art thou so vnquiet within me? attende thou vpon the Lorde, for I wil yet acknowledge him to be only my present saluation, and my Lorde.
• John 6:40 : 40 And this is the wyll of him yt sent me: that euery one which seeth the sonne, & beleueth on him, hath euerlastyng lyfe: And I wyll rayse him vp at ye last day.
• John 11:25-27 : 25 Iesus sayth vnto her, I am the resurrection, and the lyfe: He that beleueth on me, yea, though he were dead, yet shall he lyue. 26 And whosoeuer lyueth, and beleueth on me, shall neuer dye. Beleuest thou this? 27 She sayde vnto hym: Yea Lorde, I beleue that thou art Christe the sonne of God, which shoulde come into the worlde.
• John 12:44 : 44 Iesus cryed, and sayde: He that beleueth on me, beleueth not on me, but on hym that sent me.
• John 13:19 : 19 Nowe tell I you before it come: that when it is come to passe, ye myght beleue that I am he.
• Job 23:15-16 : 15 This is the cause that I shrinke at his presence, so that when I consider him, I am afrayde of hym. 16 For God maketh my heart softe, and the almightie putteth me in feare.
• John 11:33 : 33 Whe Iesus therfore sawe her weepe, and the Iewes also weepyng which came with her, he groned in the spirite, and was troubled in hym selfe.
• John 12:27 : 27 Nowe is my soule troubled, and what shall I say? Father, saue me from this houre: but therfore came I into this houre.
• Ps 43:5 : 5 Why art thou so discouraged O my soule, & why art thou so vnquiet within me? attende thou vpon the Lorde, for I wyll yet acknowledge hym to be only my present saluation, & my Lorde.
• Ps 77:2-3 : 2 In the tyme of my trouble I sought the Lorde: my hande all the nyght catched & ceassed not, my soule refused comfort. 3 I called to remembraunce God, and I was disquieted: I conferred with my selfe, and my spirite was wrapped in pensiuenesse. Selah.
• Ps 77:10 : 10 And I sayde, this is my death: but the ryght hande of the most hyghest may graunt me yeres.
• Isa 43:1-2 : 1 But nowe the Lorde that made thee O Iacob, and he that fashioned thee O Israel saith thus: feare not, for I haue redeemed thee, I haue called thee by thy name, thou art mine owne. 2 If thou goest thorow ye water, I wyl be with thee, the strong fluddes shal not ouerwhelme thee: and if thou walkest thorowe the fire, it shall not burne thee, & the flambe shal not kindle vpon thee:
• Jer 8:18 : 18 I woulde haue had comfort against sorowe: but sorowe is come vpon me, and heauinesse vexeth my heart.
• Lam 3:17-23 : 17 He hath put my soule out of rest, I forget all good thinges. 18 I thought in my selfe, I am vndone, there is no hope for me in the Lorde. 19 O remember yet my miserie and my trouble, the wormewood and the gall. 20 Yea thou shalt remember them, for my soule melteth away in me. 21 Whyle I consider these thinges in my heart, I get a hope agayne. 22 namely it is of the Lordes mercies that we are not vtterly consumed, for truely his pitifull compassion hath not ceassed. 23 Newe mercyes shall the Lord shewe vpon thee early in the day springing, (O Lorde) great is thy faythfulnesse.
• John 5:23 : 23 Because that all men shoulde honour the sonne, euen as they honour the father. He that honoureth not the sonne, the same honoureth not ye father which hath sent hym.
• 2 Thess 2:2 : 2 That ye be not sodenlye moued from your minde, nor be troubled, neither by spirite, nor by worde, nor yet by letter, as from vs, as though the daye of Christe were at hande.
• 1 John 2:23-24 : 23 Whosoeuer denyeth the sonne, the same hath not the father But he that knowledgeth the sonne, hath the father also. 24 Let therfore abyde in you, that same whiche ye hearde from the begynnyng. If that whiche ye hearde from the begynnyng shall remayne in you, ye also shall continue in the sonne, and in the father.
• Eph 1:15 : 15 Wherfore I also after that I hearde of the fayth which ye haue in the Lorde Iesus, and loue vnto all the saintes,
• John 16:3 : 3 And such thynges wyll they do vnto you, because they haue not knowen the father, neither yet me.
• John 16:6 : 6 But because I haue saide such thinges vnto you, your heartes are ful of sorow.
• Acts 3:15-16 : 15 And kylled the Lorde of lyfe, whom God hath raysed from the dead: of the which we are witnesses. 16 And his name, through the fayth in his name, hath made this man sounde, whom ye see and knowe: And the fayth which is by hym, hath geuen to this man health, in the presence of you all.
• 2 Cor 2:7 : 7 So that nowe contrarywise, ye ought rather to forgeue hym, and comforte hym, lest that same person shoulde be swallowed vp with ouermuche heauynesse.
• 2 Cor 4:8-9 : 8 We are troubled on euery syde, yet are we not without shyft. We are in pouertie, but not vtterly without somewhat. 9 We suffer persecution, but are not forsaken therin. We are cast downe, but we perisshe not. 10 We alwayes beare about in the body the dying of the Lorde Iesus, that the lyfe of Iesus myght also appeare in our bodie.
• 2 Cor 12:9-9 : 9 And he sayde vnto me: My grace is sufficient for thee. For my strength is made perfect in weakenesse. Most gladly therfore, I wyll rather glorie in my infirmities, that the power of Christ myght dwell in me. 10 Therfore haue I delectation in infirmities, in rebukes, in necessities, in persecutions, in anguishes for Christes sake: For when I am weake, then am I strong.
• 1 John 5:10-12 : 10 He that beleueth on the sonne of God, hath the witnesse in hym selfe: He that beleueth not God, hath made hym a lyer, because he beleued not the recorde that God gaue of his sonne. 11 And this is the recorde, how that God hath geuen vnto vs eternall lyfe, and this lyfe, is in his sonne. 12 He that hath the sonne, hath lyfe: and he that hath not the sonne of God, hath not lyfe.
• Job 21:4-6 : 4 Is it for mans sake that I make this disputation? Which if it were so, shoulde not my spirite then be in sore trouble? 5 Marke me well and be abashed, and lay your hande vpon your mouth. 6 For when I consider my selfe I am afrayde, and my fleshe is smitten with feare.