KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
John 12:16–17
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John 12:16
16These things understood not his disciples at the first: but when Jesus was glorified, then remembered they that these things were written of him, and that they had done these things unto him.
16These things vnderstood not his disciples at the first: but when Iesus was glorified, then remēbred they that these things were written of him, and that they had done these things vnto him.
John 12:17
17The people therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of his grave, and raised him from the dead, bare record.
17The people therefore that was with him, when he called Lazarus out of his graue, and raised him from the dead, bare record.
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DEFINED WORDS
John 12:16
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
understood
Comprehended, perceived the meaning, or knew with the mind.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Learners or followers who receive instruction.
Meaning drawn from: Bullokar 1616 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Before all others in time, place, order, rank, or importance; the beginning or earliest.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
But; marking a contrast or qualification in the sentence.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Honored; dignified; exalted to glory.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
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remembered
Kept in mind; recollected.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To write: to set down, record, or communicate in letters or writing.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Performed; executed; finished; a word by which agreement to a proposal is expressed.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
DEFINED WORDS
John 12:17
Persons collectively; a nation, community, or group considered as a body.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Named, summoned, invited, proclaimed, or addressed, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Outside, away from within, forth, absent, or no longer in a stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A place of burial; serious, weighty, or sober; as a verb, to carve or engrave.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Lifted or set upright; exalted; built or produced; called forth; or restored to life, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Without life; deprived of life; also lifeless, inactive, insensible, or separated from a former state by figure.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Uncovered or naked; also carried, endured, or produced, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A written or remembered account; testimony; also to set down or bear witness.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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From verse 16
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Open the full verse study22When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.
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Open the full verse study26But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
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Open the full verse study39(But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified.)
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Open the full verse study36Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.
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Open the full verse study23¶ And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified.
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Open the full verse study33Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear.
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Open the full verse study13The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, hath glorified his Son Jesus; whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, when he was determined to let him go.
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Open the full verse study2Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
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Open the full verse study1NOW of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;
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Open the full verse study4But these things have I told you, that when the time shall come, ye may remember that I told you of them. And these things I said not unto you at the beginning, because I was with you.
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Open the full verse study34And they understood none of these things: and this saying was hid from them, neither knew they the things which were spoken.
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Open the full verse study25Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:
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Open the full verse study45Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,
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Open the full verse study6He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee,
7Saying, The Son of man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.
8And they remembered his words,
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Open the full verse study45But they understood not this saying, and it was hid from them, that they perceived it not: and they feared to ask him of that saying.
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Open the full verse study31¶ Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him.
32If God be glorified in him, God shall also glorify him in himself, and shall straightway glorify him.
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Open the full verse study5And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
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Open the full verse study19¶ So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.
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Open the full verse study32But they understood not that saying, and were afraid to ask him.
From verse 17
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Open the full verse study9If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son.
10He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.
11And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
12He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.
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Open the full verse study2Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw.
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Open the full verse study22Beginning from the baptism of John, unto that same day that he was taken up from us, must one be ordained to be a witness with us of his resurrection.
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Open the full verse study32And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him.
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Open the full verse study9Much people of the Jews therefore knew that he was there: and they came not for Jesus’ sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.
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Open the full verse study35And he that saw it bare record, and his record is true: and he knoweth that he saith true, that ye might believe.
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Open the full verse study19¶ And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou?
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Open the full verse study32And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him.
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Open the full verse study34And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.
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Open the full verse study31The Jews then which were with her in the house, and comforted her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up hastily and went out, followed her, saying, She goeth unto the grave to weep there.
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Open the full verse study42And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.
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Open the full verse study45Then many of the Jews which came to Mary, and had seen the things which Jesus did, believed on him.
46But some of them went their ways to the Pharisees, and told them what things Jesus had done.
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Open the full verse study24This is the disciple which testifieth of these things, and wrote these things: and we know that his testimony is true.
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Open the full verse study35He was a burning and a shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light.
36¶ But I have greater witness than that of John: for the works which the Father hath given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.
37And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape.
38And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent, him ye believe not.
39¶ Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
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Open the full verse study13The Pharisees therefore said unto him, Thou bearest record of thyself; thy record is not true.
14Jesus answered and said unto them, Though I bear record of myself, yet my record is true: for I know whence I came, and whither I go; but ye cannot tell whence I come, and whither I go.
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Open the full verse study6And men shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts: and I will declare thy greatness.
7They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness, and shall sing of thy righteousness.
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Open the full verse study26But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:
27And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.
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