John 12:30
Jesus answered and said, This voice came not because of me, but for your sakes.
KJV
ἀπεκρίθη Ἰησοῦς καὶ εἶπεν· οὐ δι’ ἐμὲ ἡ φωνὴ αὕτη γέγονεν ἀλλὰ δι’ ὑμᾶς.
Greek NT
Respondit Jesus, et dixit : Non propter me hæc vox venit, sed propter vos.
Vulgate
Jesus answered and said, This voice hath not come for my sake, but for your sakes.
ASV
Jesus answered and said: This voice came not because of me, but for your sakes.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
13 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
γίνομαι
ginomai
verb · 667×
διά
dia
preposition · 633×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
οὗτος
outos
demonstrative · 1380×
φωνή
phone
noun · 139×
ἀλλά
alla
conjunction · 636×
ἀποκρίνομαι
apokrinomai
verb · 233×
ἐγώ
ego
pronoun · 1720×
Ἰησοῦς
iesous
noun · 908×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὑμεῖς
umeis
pronoun · 1828×
Textual variants
2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
minor
SBLGNT: Ἰησοῦς καὶ εἶπεν | Treg/NIV/RP: Ἰησοῦς καὶ εἶπεν | WH: καὶ εἶπεν Ἰησοῦς
- Ἰησοῦς καὶ εἶπεν — SBLGNT
- Ἰησοῦς καὶ εἶπεν — Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
- καὶ εἶπεν Ἰησοῦς — Westcott-Hort
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: ἡ φωνὴ αὕτη | WH/Treg/NIV: ἡ φωνὴ αὕτη | RP: αὕτη ἡ φωνὴ
- ἡ φωνὴ αὕτη — SBLGNT
- ἡ φωνὴ αὕτη — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- αὕτη ἡ φωνὴ — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Theophany
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
1. What I have often said, I will now say, that Christ looks not so much to His own honor as to our salvation; not how He may utter some sublime saying, but how something able to draw us to Him. On which account His sublime and mighty sayings are few, and those also hidden, but the humble and lowly are many, and abound through His discourses. For since by these men were the rat…
Cross-references
- John 11:15 — And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, to the intent ye may believe; nevertheless let us go unto him.
- John 11:42 — And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.