Anakalypsis / Unveiling the Word

John 1:24

And they which were sent were of the Pharisees.

KJV

καὶ ἀπεσταλμένοι ἦσαν ἐκ τῶν Φαρισαίων.

Greek NT

Et qui missi fuerant, erant ex pharisæis.

Vulgate

And they had been sent from the Pharisees.

ASV

And they that were sent were of the Pharisees.

Douay-Rheims

Open in reader with connections →

In the original Greek

6 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

Φαρισαῖος
pharisaios
noun · 101×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
ἀποστέλλω
apostello
verb · 131×
ἐκ
ek
preposition · 915×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

notable
SBLGNT: Καὶ | WH/Treg/NIV: Καὶ | RP: + οἱ
  • Καὶ — SBLGNT
  • Καὶ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • + οἱ — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

2. Yea, says one; he speaks plainly enough, but the question is if there be any reason in this plainness. For he did not see them sinning, but in the act of change; wherefore they did not deserve blame, but rather praise and approbation, for having left city and houses, and making haste to hear his preaching. What then shall we say? That he had not things present, and even now …
From the Preface You are not content to fulfil the office, when I am present with you, of a taskmaster to drive me to labour at theology; even when I am absent you demand that I should spend most of my time on you and on the task I have to do for you. I, for my part, am inclined to shrink from toil, and to avoid that danger which threatens from God those who give themselves to …
1. The Work is Taken Up After a Violent Interruption, Which Has Driven the Writer from Alexandria. He Addresses Himself to It Again, with Thanks for His Deliverance, and Prayer for Guidance. When a house is being built which is to be made as strong as possible, the building takes place in fine weather and in calm, so that nothing may hinder the structure from acquiring the need…

Cross-references

  • Acts 23:8 — For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confess both.
  • Acts 26:5 — Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
  • John 3:1 — There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:
  • John 7:47 — Then answered them the Pharisees, Are ye also deceived?
  • Luke 7:30 — But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.
  • Luke 11:39 — And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness.
  • Luke 11:53 — And as he said these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things:
  • Luke 16:14 — And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.
  • Matt 23:13 — But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
  • Matt 23:26 — Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
  • Phil 3:5 — Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;