John 8:23
And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world.
KJV
καὶ ἔλεγεν αὐτοῖς· ὑμεῖς ἐκ τῶν κάτω ἐστέ, ἐγὼ ἐκ τῶν ἄνω εἰμί· ὑμεῖς ἐκ τοῦ κόσμου τούτου ἐστέ, ἐγὼ οὐκ εἰμὶ ἐκ τοῦ κόσμου τούτου.
Greek NT
Et dicebat eis : Vos de deorsum estis, ego de supernis sum. Vos de mundo hoc estis, ego non sum de hoc mundo.
Vulgate
And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world.
ASV
And he said to them: You are from beneath: I am from above. You are of this world: I am not of this world.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
13 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
κάτω
kato
adverb · 12×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
κόσμος
kosmos
noun · 184×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
οὗτος
outos
demonstrative · 1380×
ἄνω
ano
adverb · 9×
ἐγώ
ego
pronoun · 1720×
ἐκ
ek
preposition · 915×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὑμεῖς
umeis
pronoun · 1828×
Textual variants
2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
minor
SBLGNT: ἔλεγεν | WH/Treg/NIV: ἔλεγεν | RP: εἶπεν
- ἔλεγεν — SBLGNT
- ἔλεγεν — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- εἶπεν — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: τούτου τοῦ κόσμου | WH/Treg/NIV: τούτου τοῦ κόσμου | RP: τοῦ κόσμου τούτου
- τούτου τοῦ κόσμου — SBLGNT
- τούτου τοῦ κόσμου — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- τοῦ κόσμου τούτου — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Source. Translated by J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, and revised by George B. Stevens. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 11. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1889.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210208.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Adven…
He continues his explanation of the first Chapter of Genesis according to the Septuagint, and by its assistance he argues, especially, concerning the double heaven, and the formless matter out of which the whole world may have been created; afterwards of the interpretations of others not disallowed, and sets forth at great length the sense of the Holy Scripture. Chapter 1 .— Th…
Cross-references
- 1Cor 15:47 — The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.
- 1John 2:15 — Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
- 1John 4:5 — They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.
- 1John 4:5 — They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.
- 1John 5:19 — And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.
- Eph 2:2 — Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
- Jas 3:15 — This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
- Jas 4:4 — Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
- John 1:14 — And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
- John 3:13 — And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
- John 3:31 — He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all.
- John 3:31 — He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all.
- John 13:19 — Now I tell you before it come, that, when it is come to pass, ye may believe that I am he.
- John 15:18 — If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
- John 16:9 — Of sin, because they believe not on me;
- John 17:14 — I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
- John 17:14 — I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
- John 17:16 — They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
- Ps 17:4 — Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the paths of the destroyer.
- Ps 17:14 — From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of
- Rom 8:7 — Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.