John 7:51
Doth our law judge any man, before it hear him, and know what he doeth?
KJV
μὴ ὁ νόμος ἡμῶν κρίνει τὸν ἄνθρωπον ἐὰν μὴ ἀκούσῃ πρῶτον παρ’ αὐτοῦ καὶ γνῷ τί ποιεῖ;
Greek NT
Numquid lex nostra judicat hominem, nisi prius audierit ab ipso, et cognoverit quid faciat ?
Vulgate
Doth our law judge a man, except it first hear from himself and know what he doeth?
ASV
Doth our law judge any man, unless it first hear him and know what he doth?
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
15 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
γινώσκω
ginosko
verb · 222×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
κρίνω
krino
verb · 114×
μή
me
particle · 1033×
νόμος
nomos
noun · 196×
παρά
para
preposition · 191×
ποιέω
poieo
verb · 569×
πρῶτον
proton
adverb · 57×
τίς
tis
interrogative_pronoun · 533×
ἀκούω
akouo
verb · 427×
ἄνθρωπος
anthropos
noun · 549×
ἐάν
ean
conditional · 333×
ἡμεῖς
emeis
pronoun · 862×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
minor
SBLGNT: πρῶτον παρ᾽ αὐτοῦ | WH/Treg/NIV: πρῶτον παρ᾽ αὐτοῦ | RP: παρ᾽ αὐτοῦ πρότερον
- πρῶτον παρ᾽ αὐτοῦ — SBLGNT
- πρῶτον παρ᾽ αὐτοῦ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- παρ᾽ αὐτοῦ πρότερον — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
1. Of the men of that time some clung to their error, others laid hold on the truth, while of these last, some having retained it for a little while again fell off from it. Alluding to these, Christ compared them to seeds not deeply sown, but having their roots upon the surface of the earth; and He said that they should quickly perish. And these the Evangelist has here pointed …
Cross-references
- Acts 23:3 — Then said Paul unto him, God shall smite thee, thou whited wall: for sittest thou to judge me after the law, and commandest me to be smitten contrary to the law?
- Acts 23:3 — Then said Paul unto him, God shall smite thee, thou whited wall: for sittest thou to judge me after the law, and commandest me to be smitten contrary to the law?
- Acts 25:16 — To whom I answered, It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver any man to die, before that he which is accused have the accusers face to face, and have licence to answer for himself concerning the
- Acts 25:27 — For it seemeth to me unreasonable to send a prisoner, and not withal to signify the crimes laid against him.
- Acts 26:1 — Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself. Then Paul stretched forth the hand, and answered for himself:
- Deut 1:17 — Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man; for the judgment is God’s: and the cause that is too hard for you
- Deut 17:4 — And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel:
- Deut 17:6 — At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.
- Deut 17:8 — If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou ari
- Deut 19:15 — One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be establi
- Prov 18:13 — He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.
- Prov 18:13 — He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.
- Prov 31:8 — Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
- Zech 7:9 — Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions every man to his brother: