John 6:68
Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.
KJV
ἀπεκρίθη αὐτῷ Σίμων Πέτρος· κύριε, πρὸς τίνα ἀπελευσόμεθα; ῥήματα ζωῆς αἰωνίου ἔχεις·
Greek NT
Dixit ergo Jesus ad duodecim : Numquid et vos vultis abire ?
Vulgate
Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.
ASV
Then Jesus said to the twelve: Will you also go away?
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
12 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Πέτρος
petros
noun · 154×
Σίμων
simon
noun · 75×
αἰώνιος
aionios
adjective · 70×
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
ζωή
zoe
noun · 135×
κύριος
kurios
noun · 717×
πρός
pros
preposition · 697×
τίς
tis
interrogative_pronoun · 533×
ἀπέρχομαι
aperchomai
verb · 117×
ἀποκρίνομαι
apokrinomai
verb · 233×
ἔχω
echo
verb · 707×
ῥῆμα
rema
noun · 67×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
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SBLGNT: ἀπεκρίθη | WH/Treg/NIV: ἀπεκρίθη | RP: + οὖν
- ἀπεκρίθη — SBLGNT
- ἀπεκρίθη — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- + οὖν — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Themes
Historic Christian voices
7 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
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§50Christ enlightens His whole Church, as numberless passages from the Sacred Scriptures and the holy Fathers prove. "No man hath seen God at any time: the only-begotten Son who is in the bosom of the Father he hath declared him"[82] Coming as a teacher from God [83] to give testimony to the truth [84] He shed such light upon the nascent apostolic Church that the Prince of the Apo…
I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger. Calvin expounds the feeding of the five thousand as a sign pointing to Christ as the true bread from heaven. The bread of God is he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world. Whoever eats the flesh of the Son of Man and drinks his blood has eternal life. Calvin insists this is spiritual feeding by fai…
1. Concerning Those Who Asked Him to Show Them a Sign from Heaven. And the Sadducees and Pharisees came, and tempting Him kept asking Him to show them a sign from heaven. Matthew 16:1 The Sadducees and Pharisees who disagreed with each other in regard to the most essential truths, — for the Pharisees champion the doctrine of the resurrection of the dead, hoping that there will …
Cross-references
- 1Cor 15:45 — And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
- 1John 2:25 — And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.
- 1John 5:11 — And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
- 1John 5:11 — And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
- Acts 4:12 — Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
- Acts 5:20 — Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.
- Acts 5:20 — Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.
- Acts 7:38 — This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:
- Jas 1:21 — Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
- Jer 18:14 — Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which cometh from the rock of the field? or shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken?
- John 4:42 — And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.
- John 5:24 — Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
- John 5:39 — Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
- John 5:40 — And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.
- John 6:27 — Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
- John 6:40 — And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.
- John 6:63 — It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
- John 6:63 — It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
- John 10:28 — And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
- John 12:50 — And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.
- John 14:4 — And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.
- John 14:6 — Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
- John 15:4 — Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
- 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 17:8 — 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.
- Luke 9:20 — He said unto them, But whom say ye that I am? Peter answering said, The Christ of God.
- Matt 14:28 — And Peter answered him and said, Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water.
- Matt 16:16 — And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God.
- Matt 19:16 — And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?
- Matt 22:42 — Saying, What think ye of Christ? whose son is he? They say unto him, The son of David.
- Phil 2:16 — Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
- Prov 4:13 — Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.
- Prov 16:22 — Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly.
- Ps 73:25 — Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.
- Ps 133:3 — As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.
- Rom 6:23 — For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
- Titus 1:2 — In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;