Anakalypsis / Unveiling the Word

John 7:49

But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed.

KJV

ἀλλὰ ὁ ὄχλος οὗτος ὁ μὴ γινώσκων τὸν νόμον ἐπάρατοί εἰσίν.

Greek NT

sed turba hæc, quæ non novit legem, maledicti sunt.

Vulgate

But this multitude that knoweth not the law are accursed.

ASV

But this multitude, that knoweth not the law, are accursed.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

9 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

γινώσκω
ginosko
verb · 222×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
μή
me
particle · 1033×
νόμος
nomos
noun · 196×
οὗτος
outos
demonstrative · 1380×
ἀλλά
alla
conjunction · 636×
ἐπικατάρατος
epikataratos
adjective · 3×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὄχλος
ochlos
noun · 173×

Textual variants

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

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SBLGNT: ἐπάρατοί | WH/Treg/NIV: ἐπάρατοί | RP: ἐπικατάρατοί
  • ἐπάρατοί — SBLGNT
  • ἐπάρατοί — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • ἐπικατάρατοί — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

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

§575Many of Jesus' deeds and words constituted a "sign of contradiction",321 but more so for the religious authorities in Jerusalem, whom the Gospel according to John often calls simply "the Jews",322 than for the ordinary People of God.323 To be sure, Christ's relations with the Pharisees were not exclusively polemical. Some Pharisees warn him of the danger he was courting;324 Jes…
§588Jesus scandalized the Pharisees by eating with tax collectors and sinners as familiarly as with themselves.364 Against those among them "who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and despised others", Jesus affirmed: "I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."365 He went further by proclaiming before the Pharisees that, since sin is universal, t…
1. As wealth is wont to hurl into destruction those who are not heedful, so also is power; the first leads into covetousness, the second into pride. See, for instance, how the subject multitude of the Jews is sound, and their rulers corrupt; for that the first of these believed Christ, the Evangelists continually assert, saying, that many of the multitude believed on Him John 7…

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 1:20 — Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
  • 1Cor 3:18 — Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.
  • Jas 3:13 — Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
  • John 9:34 — They answered and said unto him, Thou wast altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out.
  • John 9:40 — And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said unto him, Are we blind also?