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John 10:38

But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.

KJV

εἰ δὲ ποιῶ, κἂν ἐμοὶ μὴ πιστεύητε, τοῖς ἔργοις πιστεύετε, ἵνα γνῶτε καὶ γινώσκητε ὅτι ἐν ἐμοὶ ὁ πατὴρ κἀγὼ ἐν τῷ πατρί.

Greek NT

Si autem facio : etsi mihi non vultis credere, operibus credite, ut cognoscatis, et credatis quia Pater in me est, et ego in Patre.

Vulgate

But if I do them, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.

ASV

But if I do, though you will not believe me, believe the works: that you may know and believe that the Father is in me and I in the Father.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

16 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

γινώσκω
ginosko
verb · 222×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
εἰ
ei
conditional · 491×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
κἀγώ
kago
pronoun · 85×
κἄν
kan
conditional · 16×
μή
me
particle · 1033×
πατήρ
pater
noun · 412×
πιστεύω
pisteuo
verb · 241×
ποιέω
poieo
verb · 569×
ἐγώ
ego
pronoun · 1720×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ἔργον
ergon
noun · 169×
ἵνα
ina
conjunction · 665×
o
article · 19778×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×

Textual variants

3 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

minor
SBLGNT: πιστεύετε | WH/Treg/NIV: πιστεύετε | RP: πιστεύσατε
  • πιστεύετεSBLGNT
  • πιστεύετεWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • πιστεύσατεRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: γινώσκητε | WH/Treg/NIV: γινώσκητε | RP: πιστεύσητε
  • γινώσκητεSBLGNT
  • γινώσκητεWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • πιστεύσητεRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: τῷ πατρί | WH/Treg/NIV: τῷ πατρί | RP: αὐτῷ
  • τῷ πατρίSBLGNT
  • τῷ πατρίWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • αὐτῷRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

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

§548The signs worked by Jesus attest that the Father has sent him. They invite belief in him.269 To those who turn to him in faith, he grants what they ask.270 So miracles strengthen faith in the One who does his Father's works; they bear witness that he is the Son of God.271 But his miracles can also be occasions for "offence";272 they are not intended to satisfy people's curiosit…
§582Going even further, Jesus perfects the dietary law, so important in Jewish daily life, by revealing its pedagogical meaning through a divine interpretation: "Whatever goes into a man from outside cannot defile him. . . (Thus he declared all foods clean.). . . What comes out of a man is what defiles a man. For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts. . ."346 In …
§591Jesus asked the religious authorities of Jerusalem to believe in him because of the Father's works which he accomplished.373 But such an act of faith must go through a mysterious death to self, for a new "birth from above" under the influence of divine grace.374 Such a demand for conversion in the face of so surprising a fulfilment of the promises375 allows one to understand th…
1. If any one unpracticed in the art undertake to work a mine, he will get no gold, but confounding all aimlessly and together, will undergo a labor unprofitable and pernicious: so also they who understand not the method of Holy Scripture, nor search out its peculiarities and laws, but go over all its points carelessly and in one manner, will mix the gold with earth, and never …

Cross-references

  • 1John 5:9 — If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son.
  • Acts 2:22 — Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:
  • Acts 4:8 — Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto them, Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,
  • Col 2:9 — For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
  • Exod 23:21 — Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.
  • John 3:2 — The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.
  • John 5:36 — But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.
  • John 6:30 — They said therefore unto him, What sign shewest thou then, that we may see, and believe thee? what dost thou work?
  • John 10:25 — Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father’s name, they bear witness of me.
  • John 10:25 — Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father’s name, they bear witness of me.
  • John 10:30 — I and my Father are one.
  • John 12:39 — Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again,
  • John 14:9 — Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
  • John 14:10 — Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
  • John 14:11 — Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works’ sake.
  • John 14:20 — At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
  • John 14:20 — At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.
  • John 14:28 — Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.
  • John 17:11 — And now I am no more in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me, that they may be one, as we are.
  • John 17:21 — That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
  • John 17:21 — That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
  • Matt 11:5 — The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.
  • Phil 2:6 — Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
  • Zech 13:7 — Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little one