Hello, this is Pastor Steven Anderson from Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona.
And today we're going to be talking about John 14.6.
This is John 14.6 from the Greek New Testament.
I've got the Texas Receptus from the Trinitarian Bible Society, the Greek text underlying the
King James Bible.
So we're going to go through this word by word.
Hopefully you already watched the video on John 1.1.
Hopefully you already memorized John 1.1.
But let's go ahead and go through this word by word.
The first word here,
Legi afto oisous, ego, imi iodos, kei alithia, kei zoi, udis, ergete, prostonpatera, i, mi,
diemu.
All right?
So again, you should know the alphabet and you should be able to understand that these
accent marks tell you where to put the stress on each word.
So let's go through this word by word and let me give you some tips for memorizing this
verse and also just understanding what the words mean for a total beginner.
Legi, all right, legi here means says or sayeth, right?
So you say, well, that's kind of a weird word to start the verse with.
You know, starting with the verb is not something that we would do when we speak English, right?
But again, as I said in the other video, word order in Greek is a lot more fluid.
I mean, you can move things around and it doesn't really change the meaning.
And so it starts with the verb here, legi, which is sayeth, afto, which means to him,
oisous.
Now the word o here means the.
And we in English would not say the Jesus, okay?
But a lot of foreign languages often put the word the in front of people's names.
German does this all the time.
And in Greek, just as we saw the word the in front of God in John 1.1, here the word
the is used in front of Jesus's name because that's just something that they do in Greek
that isn't done in English.
So legi, afto, oisous is saying, you know, sayeth unto him, the Jesus would be the literal
translation word for word.
But obviously what it's saying here is Jesus sayeth unto him.
That's what it's going to say in the English Bible, Jesus sayeth unto him.
Now let me just give you a little trick here.
At the end of nouns and at the end of pronouns, sometimes you'll see this little mark right
here that's a little, it's called the yota subscript.
And it's just like a little tiny yota that's written below the omega right here.
And just a little trick for reading the Greek New Testament faster is whenever you see that
little yota subscript, if it's at the end of a noun or the end of a pronoun, it's pretty
much always going to be in the dative case.
Now in the last video we talked about the accusative case and the nominative case.
The nominative case is the subject of the sentence.
The accusative case was the direct object of the sentence.
But also the accusative case is used with prepositions sometimes.
It's the object of many prepositions is going to be an accusative case also.
Well there's another case called the dative case.
And the dative case is something for indirect objects and it's also used with many prepositions.
But an indirect object is what we would say in English to whom or for whom, okay?
For example, if I said I hit the ball, the ball is the direct object, okay?
I am the subject.
But if I said I hit Robert the ball, I'm not saying I hit Robert, am I?
I'm saying I hit the ball to Robert.
Robert is not the object of hit.
If so, that would mean I were hitting Robert, okay?
If I say if I hit Robert the ball, I'm saying I hit the ball to Robert.
If I said I wrote Robert a letter, I'm not writing Robert, I'm writing the letter.
The letter is the direct object.
Robert is the indirect object because he answers the question to whom or for whom, okay?
So in this case, it would be to whom.
Off toe here means to him or unto him.
It's an indirect object, so it's in that dative case.
And I'm just saying that when you're reading a Greek New Testament,
it's pretty easy to spot the dative case in nouns and pronouns.
Because when you see that yota subscript, it's kind of a telltale sign there for
the dative case or the indirect object or the object of certain prepositions is also in dative.
So we've got legi off toe sayeth unto him, to him, dative case, Jesus, oesous, okay?
So legi off toe oesous, ego, emi, iodos.
This means I am the way.
Now, the word ego, it gets the accent on the second syllable.
See, that accent is over the omega.
Ego, emi, iodos.
Now, what's a way to remember the word ego?
Well, it's sort of like our English word ego.
That's where our English word ego comes from.
And a person who has a big ego puts all the emphasis on themself, right?
Well, ego means I, so that's pretty easy to remember if you remember the word ego.
So ego, emi, I am, iodos, the way.
Now, you'll notice that the word the up here in front of Jesus, o, and the word the over
here in front of odos, which is e, that they're two different words, two different letters.
Well, that's because in Greek there is gender, male, female, or neuter, actually masculine,
feminine, and neuter is how we say it.
So this right here, isos, is obviously a masculine word, and then odos here is a feminine word,
so therefore it gets a different word for the, okay?
And again, we're using modern Greek pronunciation, so we're ignoring the breathing marks, which
are no longer pronounced.
So how do you think we could remember the word odos?
Because it means I am the way, right, ego, emi, iodos.
Odos can be remembered by the word odometer, right?
What's an odometer read?
Well, how many miles you've traveled down, what?
The road.
So odos can be remembered by noticing its similarity with the word odometer, all right?
Ego, emi, iodos, ke, remember the word ke from the last verse means and, e, aletheia,
all right?
Aletheia means truth.
So he says, ego, emi, iodos, ke, aletheia, I am the way and the truth, aletheia, ke and
ezoi, and zoi means life, okay?
So we can remember that by the word zoology, right, or a zoo.
What is a zoo or what is zoology?
Well, it's the study of animals, basically it's the study of things that are alive, okay?
So our words zoo and zoology come from the Greek word life, okay, ezoi.
So that'll help you remember that.
Now, it's great to learn a verse like this in Greek if you're an absolute beginner because
it's a verse that you probably already have memorized in English.
And since you already have it memorized in English, if you forget what a word means,
it'll probably come to you right away just by thinking about the English.
So let's go back to the beginning, legi apto oesus, ego, emi, iodos, ke, aletheia, ke,
ezoi.
Alright, so that's the first part of the verse.
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way and the truth and the life, udis, egete, proston,
patera, i, mi, vemu, alright?
So let's go through this word by word.
Udis means no one or nobody, alright?
Udis, egete, and egete means comes or cometh in the King James, no one or not anybody,
nobody cometh, udis, egete, proston, patera.
Now remember pros from John 1-1, but in John 1-1 pros was being used in a different way
because in John 1-1 pros meant with.
Well the Greek preposition pros can mean with, but it can also mean to, toward, or unto.
Like you're going to something, you're getting somewhere, okay?
And that's how it's being used here.
But even though it's being used with a different definition here, it is still taking that accusative
case, okay, with our word tone, okay?
So it goes udis, egete, proston, patera, to the Father, or unto the Father.
So it's saying no one, no man cometh unto the Father.
Okay now patera obviously is pretty easy to learn because it's not that different from
our word Father, and we have English words like paternal or paternity that can help us
with remembering this, patera, i, mi, viemu, alright?
Now this part's a little bit tricky, but these two words together mean except or but by me.
Okay these two are the but, okay, vi is the by, and emu is me, but by me.
No man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
So let me explain this a little bit, okay?
First of all you'll notice that this word right here has an apostrophe after it.
This isn't one of those breathing marks at the beginning of words that we're ignoring,
but this is an apostrophe after the word because this is a contraction.
You know in English we have contractions, instead of saying cannot we'll say can't,
and just c-a-n apostrophe t?
That apostrophe is showing us that something's missing.
You know cannot is a longer word, we've removed something and put an apostrophe in its place.
For example I am, we'll shorten that to just I'm, and then we just put an apostrophe just
to show that something's missing.
Well this apostrophe here is to show that something's missing because this comes from
a word that is spelled delta, yota, alpha, okay, dia, which means by or through, okay?
Well the alpha is missing, right?
Because we've shortened this, it's a contraction so that basically these two words can be run
together as the emu, the emu, just you know run them together.
Instead of two separate words, they're contracted, that's what that apostrophe is telling us.
So this by me becomes the emu, all right?
But in the dictionary this word would be spelled delta, yota, alpha, okay, dia.
And so it's the emu here, by me.
And again the e me, these two words together mean but in the sense of except, except by
me, but by me, all right?
There's no other way but him.
So this word by itself, me, is our English word not.
It's just a negating word that's used, okay?
And then this e by itself means if, okay?
So if not, by me.
No man cometh unto the Father if not by me.
But these together we would be more likely to translate it as, you know, no man cometh
unto the Father but by me.
That sounds the way we talk in English, right?
Instead of e me, the emu, all right?
So this is a pretty straightforward verse and the great thing about it is that a lot
of the words in the verse, there are some tricks to help you remember them.
Like for example, the ego, we have the English word ego.
Odos, we have the word odometer.
Zoe, we have the word zoology.
When we look at patera, we have paternal.
So these are all pretty easy.
Plus emu, you've got an em in it.
So it sounds similar to me, the word me.
And so this is in a genitive case.
So again, let's read the whole verse.
Legi, aftol, oisous, ego, emi iodos, kei alithia, kei zoi, udis, ergete, proston, patera, i
mi, themu.
In the next video, we're going to learn about Mark chapter 1 verse 1 and we're going to
learn about the genitive case.