μαρτυρέω

marturevw marturevw,
marturw'; imperfect 3 person plural
ejmartuvroun; future
marturhvsw; 1 aorist
ejmartuvrhsa; perfect
memartuvrhka; passive, present
marturou'mai; imperfect
ejmarturoumhn; perfect
memartuvrhmai; 1 aorist
ejmarturhvqhn; from (Simonides, Pindar), Aeschylus, Herodotus down; to be a witness, to bear witness, testify, i. e. "to affirm that one has seen or heard or experienced something, or that (so in the N. T.) he knows it because taught by divine revelation or inspiration" (sometimes in the N. T. the apostles are said
marturei'n, as those wire had been eye-witnesses and ear-witnesses of the extraordinary sayings, deeds and sufferings of Jesus, which proved his Messiahship; so too Paul, as one to whom the risen Christ had visibly appeared; cf. ; ; ; ; ; , cf. f; ; ; ; ; ,; ; ; (cf. Westcott (Speaker's) commentary on John, Introduction, p. 45f)); a. in general; absolutely, to give (not to keep back) testimony: ; ; followed by
o{ti recitative and the orat. direct., ; also preceded by
levgwn, ;
marturei'n
eij" with an accusative of the place into (unto) which the testimony (concerning Christ) is borne, (see
eij", A. I. 5 b.);
marturw', inserted parenthetically (Winer's Grammar, sec. 62, 2), ; equivalent to to prove or confirm by testimony, f; used of Jesus, predicting what actually befell him, ; of God, who himself testifies in the Scriptures that a thing is so (viz. as the author declares), followed by the recitative
o{ti, R.
marturei'tai followed by
periv with the genitive of a person, to bear witness concerning one: f;
periv
tou'
ajnqrwvpou, concerning man, i. e. to tell what one has himself learned about the nature, character, conduct, of men, (see
a[nqrwpo", 1 a.);
periv
tivno", followed by direct discourse, ; the Scriptures are said to testify
periv
!Ihsou', i. e. to declare things which make it evident that he was truly sent by God, ; God is said to do the same -- through the Scriptures, , cf. ; through the expiation wrought by the baptism and death of Christ, and the Holy Spirit giving souls assurance of this expiation, ; so John the Baptist, as being a `prophet', ; so the works which he himself did, (there followed by
o{ti); ; so the Holy Spirit, ; the apostles, ; so Christ himself
periv
eJautou', ; f,18.
periv with the genitive of the thing, ;
periv
tou'
kakou', to bring forward evidence to prove
tov
kakovn, . with the accusative of a cognate noun,
marturivan
marturei'n
periv with a genitive of the person, <<ref:BHS/GNT_Joh 5:32$$John 5