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John 20:23

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And when he had said this, he breathed on [them], and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:	Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; [and] whose soever [sins] ye retain, they are retained.	But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came.

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

Whose^G5100 soever^G302 sins^G266 ye remit^G863, they are remitted^G863 unto them^G846; and whose^G5100 soever^G302 sins ye retain^G2902, they are retained^G2902.

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Original Greek

ἄν τινων ἀφῆτε τὰς ἁμαρτίας, ἀφιένται αὐτοῖς· ἄν τινων κρατῆτε, κεκράτηνται.

Greek	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
ἄν	an	G302	PRT	soever
τινων	tinōn	G5100	X-GPM	Whose
ἀφῆτε	aphēte	G863	V-2AAS-2P	ye remit
τὰς	tas	G3588	T-APF	*
ἁμαρτίας,	hamartias	G266	N-APF	sins
ἀφιένται	aphientai	G863	V-PPI-3P	they are remitted
αὐτοῖς·	autois	G846	P-DPM	unto them
ἄν	an	G302	PRT	soever
τινων	tinōn	G5100	X-GPM	whose
κρατῆτε,	kratēte	G2902	V-PAS-2P	ye retain
κεκράτηνται.	kekratēntai	G2902	V-RPI-3P	they are retained

Source: Textus Receptus (Scrivener 1894)

Strong's References

• G266 — ἁμαρτία (hamartía, ham-ar-tee'-ah): a sin — from ἁμαρτάνω; a sin (properly abstract):--offence, sin(-ful).
• G302 — ἄν (án, an): an untranslatable word that makes a statement contingent — a primary particle, denoting a supposition, wish, possibility or uncertainty:--(what-, where-, wither-, who-)soever. Usually unexpressed except by the subjunctive or potential mood. Also contracted for ἐάν.
• G846 — αὐτός (autós, ow-tos'): he, she, it, they, them, same — from the particle (perhaps akin to the base of ἀήρ through the idea of a baffling wind) (backward); the reflexive pronoun self, used (alone or in the comparative ἑαυτοῦ) of the third person , and (with the proper personal pronoun) of the other persons:--her, it(-self), one, the other, (mine) own, said, (self-), the) same, ((him-, my-, thy- )self, (your-)selves, she, that, their(-s), them(-selves), there(-at, - by, -in, -into, -of, -on, -with), they, (these) things, this (man), those, together, very, which. Compare αὑτοῦ.
• G863 — ἀφίημι (aphíēmi, af-ee'-ay-mee): I send away, release, remit, forgive, permit — from ἀπό and (to send; an intensive form of , to go); to send forth, in various applications (as follow):--cry, forgive, forsake, lay aside, leave, let (alone, be, go, have), omit, put (send) away, remit, suffer, yield up.
• G2902 — κρατέω (kratéō, krat-eh'-o): I lay hold of, obtain — from κράτος; to use strength, i.e. seize or retain (literally or figuratively):--hold (by, fast), keep, lay hand (hold) on, obtain, retain, take (by).
• G5100 — τὶς (tìs, tis): any one, some one — an enclitic indefinite pronoun; some or any person or object:--a (kind of), any (man, thing, thing at all), certain (thing), divers, he (every) man, one (X thing), ought, + partly, some (man, -body, - thing, -what), (+ that no-)thing, what(-soever), X wherewith, whom(-soever), whose(-soever).

The following Strong's numbers are referenced in the Greek (Textus Receptus, Scrivener 1894) text but were not explicitly tagged in the KJV source:

• G3588 — ὁ (ho, ho): the — the definite article; the (sometimes to be supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom):--the, this, that, one, he, she, it, etc.

Cross References

Reciprocal references (5): Leviticus 13:3, Deuteronomy 17:12, Luke 5:24, 2 Corinthians 2:10, Ephesians 1:7

Related Topics

• Thompson Chain: CHURCH, THE, MORTALITY-IMMORTALITY
• Nave’s: APOSTLES, CHURCH, COURT, JESUS, THE CHRIST, MINISTER, Christian, SIN, VICEGERENCY

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