John 21:4
But when the morning was now come, Jesus stood on the shore: but the disciples knew not that it was Jesus.
KJV
πρωΐας δὲ ἤδη γινομένης ἔστη Ἰησοῦς ἐπὶ τὸν αἰγιαλόν· οὐ μέντοι ᾔδεισαν οἱ μαθηταὶ ὅτι Ἰησοῦς ἐστίν.
Greek NT
Mane autem facto stetit Jesus in littore : non tamen cognoverunt discipuli quia Jesus est.
Vulgate
But when day was now breaking, Jesus stood on the beach: yet the disciples knew not that it was Jesus.
ASV
But when the morning was come, Jesus stood on the shore: yet the disciples knew not that it was Jesus.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
15 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Textual variants
2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
- γενομένης — SBLGNT
- γενομένης — Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
- γινομένης — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles
- ἔστη — SBLGNT
- ἔστη — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- + ὁ — Robinson-Pierpont
Theophany
Historic Christian voices
6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§645By means of touch and the sharing of a meal, the risen Jesus establishes direct contact with his disciples. He invites them in this way to recognize that he is not a ghost and above all to verify that the risen body in which he appears to them is the same body that had been tortured and crucified, for it still bears the traces of his Passion.508 Yet at the same time this authen…
§659"So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God."531 Christ's body was glorified at the moment of his Resurrection, as proved by the new and supernatural properties it subsequently and permanently enjoys.532 But during the forty days when he eats and drinks familiarly with his disciples and teaches them about…
1. Nothing is worse than envy and malice; through these death entered into the world. For when the devil saw man honored, he endured not his prosperity, but used every means to destroy him. Wisdom 2:24 And from the same root one may everywhere see this same fruit produced. Thus Abel was slain; thus David, with many other just men, was like to have been so; from this also the Je…
Cross-references
- John 20:14 — And when she had thus said, she turned herself back, and saw Jesus standing, and knew not that it was Jesus.
- John 20:14 — And when she had thus said, she turned herself back, and saw Jesus standing, and knew not that it was Jesus.
- Luke 24:15 — And it came to pass, that, while they communed together and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went with them.
- Luke 24:16 — But their eyes were holden that they should not know him.
- Luke 24:31 — And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight.
- Mark 16:12 — After that he appeared in another form unto two of them, as they walked, and went into the country.