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John 14:7

If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.

KJV

εἰ ἐγνώκατέ ἐμέ, καὶ τὸν πατέρα μου γνώσεσθε· καὶ ἀπάρτι γινώσκετε αὐτὸν καὶ ἑωράκατε αὐτόν.

Greek NT

Si cognovissetis me, et Patrem meum utique cognovissetis : et amodo cognoscetis eum, et vidistis eum.

Vulgate

If ye had known me, ye would have known my Father also: from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.

ASV

If you had known me, you would without doubt have known my Father also: and from henceforth you shall know him. And you have seen him.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

9 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
γινώσκω
ginosko
verb · 222×
εἰ
ei
conditional · 491×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
πατήρ
pater
noun · 412×
ἀπάρτι
aparti
adverb · 3×
ἐγώ
ego
pronoun · 1720×
o
article · 19778×
ὁράω
orao
verb · 682×

Textual variants

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

minor
SBLGNT: ἐγνώκειτέ | WH/Treg/NIV/RP: ἐγνώκειτέ | NA: ἐγνώκατέ
  • ἐγνώκειτέSBLGNT
  • ἐγνώκειτέWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
  • ἐγνώκατέNestle-Aland 27
source: sblgnt-apparatus
notable
SBLGNT: ἂν ᾔδειτε | WH/Treg/NIV: ἂν ᾔδειτε | RP: ἐγνώκειτε ἄν | NA: γνώσεσθε
  • ἂν ᾔδειτεSBLGNT
  • ἂν ᾔδειτεWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • ἐγνώκειτε ἄνRobinson-Pierpont
  • γνώσεσθεNestle-Aland 27
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: ἀπ᾽ | WH/Treg: ἀπ᾽ | NIV/RP: καὶ ἀπ᾽
  • ἀπ᾽SBLGNT
  • ἀπ᾽Westcott-Hort, Tregelles
  • καὶ ἀπ᾽Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
trivial
SBLGNT: αὐτόν | Treg/NIV/RP: αὐτόν
  • αὐτόνSBLGNT
  • αὐτόνTregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Themes

Historic Christian voices

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

1. The Prophet said to the Jews, You had the countenance of a harlot, thou were shameless towards all men. Jeremiah 3:3, Septuagint Now it seems fitting to use this expression not only against that city, but against all who shamelessly set their faces against the truth. For when Philip said to Christ, Show us the Father, He replied, Have I been so long time with you, and have y…

Cross-references

  • 1John 2:13 — I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye hav
  • 1John 2:13 — I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye hav
  • 2Cor 4:6 — For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
  • Col 1:15 — Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
  • Col 2:2 — That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of C
  • Heb 1:3 — Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the
  • John 1:18 — No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
  • John 6:46 — Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of God, he hath seen the Father.
  • John 8:19 — Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also.
  • 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 14:9 — 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 14:16 — And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
  • John 15:24 — If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
  • John 16:3 — And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.
  • John 16:13 — Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to co
  • John 17:3 — And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
  • John 17:6 — I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them me; and they have kept thy word.
  • John 17:7 — Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are of thee.
  • John 17:8 — For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send 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.
  • John 17:23 — I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
  • John 17:26 — And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.
  • Luke 10:22 — All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him.
  • Matt 7:21 — Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
  • Matt 11:27 — All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him.
  • Num 12:8 — With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?
  • Phil 3:8 — Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win