Ἰωάννην 6:29

Greek Modern Translation

Απεκριθη ο Ιησους και ειπε προς αυτους· Τουτο ειναι το εργον του Θεου, να πιστευσητε εις τουτον, τον οποιον εκεινος απεστειλε.

Parallel Translations

Byzantine/Majority Text
απεκριθη ιησους και ειπεν αυτοις τουτο εστιν το εργον του θεου ινα πιστευσητε εις ον απεστειλεν εκεινος

SBL Greek New Testament (2010)
ἀπεκρίθη ⸀ὁ Ἰησοῦς καὶ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς· Τοῦτό ἐστιν τὸ ἔργον τοῦ θεοῦ ἵνα ⸀πιστεύητε εἰς ὃν ἀπέστειλεν ἐκεῖνος.

Tischendorf 8th Edition
ἀπεκρίθη Ἰησοῦς καὶ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς· τοῦτό ἐστιν τὸ ἔργον τοῦ θεοῦ, ἵνα πιστεύητε εἰς ὃν ἀπέστειλεν ἐκεῖνος.

Textus Receptus (1550/1894)
απεκριθη ο ιησους και ειπεν αυτοις τουτο εστιν το εργον του θεου ινα πιστευσητε εις ον απεστειλεν εκεινος

Westcott/Hort UBS4 (1881)
απεκριθη απεκριθη απεκριθη απεκριθη ιησους και ειπεν αυτοις τουτο εστιν το εργον του θεου ινα πιστευητε εις ον απεστειλεν εκεινος

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

This: John 3:16-18, John 3:36, John 5:39, Deuteronomy 18:18, Deuteronomy 18:19, Psalms 2:12, Matthew 17:5, Mark 16:16, Acts 16:31, Acts 22:14-16, Romans 4:4, Romans 4:5, Romans 9:30, Romans 9:31, Romans 10:3, Romans 10:4, Hebrews 5:9, 1 John 3:23, 1 John 5:1

Reciprocal: Exodus 4:13 - send Deuteronomy 18:15 - unto him Matthew 12:50 - do Luke 8:21 - which John 6:27 - Labour not 1 Corinthians 15:58 - the work Philippians 1:6 - begun 1 John 3:22 - do 1 John 4:9 - God sent Revelation 2:26 - keepeth

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Jesus answered and said unto them, this is the work of God,.... The main and principal one, and which is well pleasing in his sight; and without which it is impossible to please him; and without which no work whatever is a good work; and this is of the operation of God, which he himself works in men; it is not of themselves, it is the pure gift of God:

that ye believe on him whom he hath sent; there are other works which are well pleasing to God, when rightly performed, but faith is the chief work, and others are only acceptable when done in the faith of Christ. This, as a principle, is purely God's work; as it is an act, or as it is exercised under the influence of divine grace, it is man's act: "that ye believe"; the object of it is Christ, as sent by the Father, as the Mediator between God and men, as appointed by him to be the Saviour and Redeemer; and believing in Christ, is believing in God that sent him. The Jews reduce all the six hundred and thirteen precepts of the law, for so many they say there are, to this one, "the just shall live by his faith", Habakkuk 2:4. e

e T. Bab. Maccot, fol. 23. 2. & 24. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This is the work of God - This is the thing that will be acceptable to God, or which you are to do in order to be saved. Jesus did not tell them they had nothing to do, or that they were to sit down and wait, but that there was a work to perform, and that was a duty that was imperative. It was to believe on the Messiah. This is the work which sinners are to do; and doing this they will be saved, for Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believeth, Romans 10:4.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 29. This is the work of God, that ye believe — There is nothing you can be employed in more acceptable to God than in yielding to the evidence set before you, and acknowledging me as your Messiah and the Saviour of a lost world.