John 18:37
Pilate therefore said to him: Art thou a king then? Jesus answered: Thou sayest that I am a king. For this was I born, and for this came I into the world; that I should give testimony to the truth. Every one that is of the truth, heareth my voice.This verse in the real world
In what words
- οὐκοῦνoukoûnis it not therefore that, i.e. (affirmatively) hence or so
- ΠιλᾶτοςPilâtosclose-pressed, i.e. firm; Pilatus, a Roman
- γεννάωgennáōto procreate (properly, of the father, but by extension of the mother); figuratively, to r
- μαρτυρέωmartyréōto be a witness, i.e. testify (literally or figuratively)
- εἶeîthou art
- ἀλήθειαalḗtheiatruth
- βασιλεύςbasileúsa sovereign (abstractly, relatively, or figuratively)
- κόσμοςkósmosorderly arrangement, i.e. decoration; by implication, the world (in a wide or narrow sense
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The Hebrew and Greek words standing behind this verse. Word-by-word alignment comes with the interlinear.
What's left of it
- Rylands Papyrus P52 — a scrap of JohnDisputedA copy of John's Gospel was circulating in Egypt within roughly a century of the events it describes.