John 12:
29 The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it thundered: others said, An angel spake to him. 30Jesus answered and said, This voice came not because of me, but for your sakes. 31Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. 32And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. 33This he said, signifying what death he should die.
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This (Verse 2) used to be my former pastor's favorite verse .
He would often quote it (the verse) isolated from the rest of (the verses) passage. Then Joe (my former pastor) would teach us that we should lift up Jesus in praise because this verse (promise) says that God will draw people to Jesus (Him) if we do our part and praise Jesus in exhaltation (lift Him up).
In that paragraph I pointed out a bad habit Joe had for taking verse 32 out of context to teach a false doctrine. The church overlooked it as far as I could tell.
Another thing that my first paragraph did was to point out the options I had to convey my subject. Some options help the sentences to flow better than others. To repeat the same words so frequently sounds strange and is poor grammar.
The king James translators, there were more than one, decided rightly to add the word
man to the text for clear grammar.
Why?
A. The word
people was already used in verse 29.
B. The masculine pronoun that was used did not change the meaning in any way. Female English speakers know that this verse gives no reason to exclude them.
C. It is consistent with the rest of the Bible in the way it flows.
Inserting men is understood and proper English grammar here.
Word for word equivalency is what the translators used, however they were better than a software program, or the critical text translators as far as that goes
John 12:
29 The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it thundered: others said, An angel spake to him. 30Jesus answered and said, This voice came not because of me, but for your sakes. 31Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. 32And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. 33This he said, signifying what death he should die.
.
This (Verse 2) used to be my former pastor's favorite verse .
He would often quote it (the verse) isolated from the rest of (the verses) passage. Then Joe (my former pastor) would teach us that we should lift up Jesus in praise because this verse (promise) says that God will draw people to Jesus (Him) if we do our part and praise Jesus in exhaltation (lift Him up).
In that paragraph I pointed out a bad habit Joe had for taking verse 32 out of context to teach a false doctrine. The church overlooked it as far as I could tell.
Another thing that my first paragraph did was to point out the options I had to convey my subject. Some options help the sentences to flow better than others. To repeat the same words so frequently sounds strange and is poor grammar.
The king James translators, there were more than one, decided rightly to add the word
man to the text for clear grammar.
Why?
A. The word
people was already used in verse 29.
B. The masculine pronoun that was used did not change the meaning in any way. Female English speakers know that this verse gives no reason to exclude them.
C. It is consistent with the rest of the Bible in the way it flows.
Inserting men is understood and proper English grammar here.
Word for word equivalency is what the translators used, however they were better than a software program, or the critical text translators as far as that goes.
draw all men is Not orig. why don't u look it up see Jesus talking about All judgement ?this is a wonderfull revelation of a mistake .All make & ignore the fact