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John 14:31

But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.

KJV

ἀλλ’ ἵνα γνῷ ὁ κόσμος ὅτι ἀγαπῶ τὸν πατέρα, καὶ καθὼς ἐνετείλατο μοι ὁ πατήρ, οὕτως ποιῶ. ἐγείρεσθε, ἄγωμεν ἐντεῦθεν.

Greek NT

Sed ut cognoscat mundus quia diligo Patrem, et sicut mandatum dedit mihi Pater, sic facio. Surgite, eamus hinc.

Vulgate

but that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.

ASV

But that the world may know that I love the Father: and as the Father hath given me commandments, so do I. Arise, let us go hence.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

17 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

γινώσκω
ginosko
verb · 222×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
καθώς
kathos
adverb · 181×
κόσμος
kosmos
noun · 184×
οὕτω
outo
adverb · 208×
πατήρ
pater
noun · 412×
ποιέω
poieo
verb · 569×
ἀγαπάω
agapao
verb · 143×
ἀλλά
alla
conjunction · 636×
ἄγω
ago
verb · 70×
ἐγείρω
egeiro
verb · 143×
ἐγώ
ego
pronoun · 1720×
ἐντέλλομαι
entellomai
verb · 16×
ἐντεῦθεν
enteuthen
adverb · 10×
ἵνα
ina
conjunction · 665×
o
article · 19778×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×

Textual variants

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

minor
SBLGNT: ἐνετείλατο | NIV/RP: ἐνετείλατο | WH/Treg: ἐντολὴν ἔδωκέν
  • ἐνετείλατοSBLGNT
  • ἐνετείλατοReader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
  • ἐντολὴν ἔδωκένWestcott-Hort, Tregelles
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

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

§606The Son of God, who came down "from heaven, not to do (his) own will, but the will of him who sent (him)",413 said on coming into the world, "Lo, I have come to do your will, O God." "and by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all."414 From the first moment of his Incarnation the Son embraces the Father's plan of divine sa…
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…
1. Relation of the Baptist to Elijah. The Theory of Transmigration Considered. The disciples asked Him, saying, Why then say the scribes that Elijah must first come? Matthew 17:10 The disciples indeed who went up with Jesus remembered the traditions of the scribes concerning Elijah, that before the advent of Christ, Elijah would come and prepare for Him the souls of those who w…

Cross-references

  • Heb 5:7 — Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
  • Heb 12:2 — Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
  • Isa 50:5 — The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back.
  • John 4:34 — Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
  • John 8:29 — And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.
  • John 10:18 — No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.
  • John 10:18 — No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.
  • John 12:27 — Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.
  • John 12:49 — For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
  • John 12:49 — For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak.
  • John 15:9 — As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.
  • John 15:10 — If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love.
  • John 17:4 — I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.
  • John 18:1 — When Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with his disciples over the brook Cedron, where was a garden, into the which he entered, and his disciples.
  • John 18:11 — Then said Jesus unto Peter, Put up thy sword into the sheath: the cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?
  • Luke 12:50 — But I have a baptism to be baptized with; and how am I straitened till it be accomplished!
  • Matt 26:39 — And he went a little farther, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.
  • Matt 26:39 — And he went a little farther, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.
  • Matt 26:46 — Rise, let us be going: behold, he is at hand that doth betray me.
  • Phil 2:8 — And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
  • Phil 2:8 — And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
  • Ps 40:8 — I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.