For an Informed Love of God
Bill Mounce
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πρός
Vocabulary form:
provV
Definition:
acc: to, towards, with
Erasmian:
Modern:
Frequency:
700
GK:
4639
Cognates:
A proselyte (proshvlutoV) is a person who has come over to another religion.
Mnemonics:
I've taken up my cross and will go with Jesus.
Mnemonic Singing:
Joy to the world the Lord is come,
let earth receive her king.
Biblical Concordance
| John 7:45 | Then the temple guards went back to (pros | πρός | prep-acc) the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why did you not bring him?” |
| John 7:50 | Nicodemus (he who had earlier come to (pros | πρός | prep-acc) Jesus), being one of their number, put this question to (pros | πρός | prep-acc) them: |
| John 8:2 | Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people were coming to (pros | πρός | prep-acc) him, and he sat down and began to teach them. |
| John 8:31 | Jesus therefore said to (pros | πρός | prep-acc) the Jews who had put their trust in him, “If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples, |
| John 8:33 | They replied to (pros | πρός | prep-acc) him, “We are descendants of Abraham and have never been slaves to anyone! How can you say, ‘You will become free’?” |
| John 8:57 | So the Jews said to (pros | πρός | prep-acc) him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and you have seen Abraham?” |
| John 9:13 | They brought to (pros | πρός | prep-acc) the Pharisees the man who had been blind. |
| John 10:35 | If the scripture called them ‘gods’ to (pros | πρός | prep-acc) whom the word of God came — and scripture cannot be annulled — |
| John 10:41 | Many people came to (pros | πρός | prep-gen) him and were saying, “John performed no miraculous sign, but everything he said about this man was true!” |
| John 11:3 | So the sisters sent word to (pros | πρός | prep-acc) him, saying, “Lord, the one you love is ill.” |
| John 11:4 | But when Jesus heard this, he said, “This illness will not lead to (pros | πρός | prep-acc) death, but is for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.” |
| John 11:15 | and for your sake I am glad that I was not there. But let us go to (pros | πρός | prep-acc) him.” |
| John 11:19 | and many of the Jews had come to (pros | πρός | prep-acc) Martha and Mary to console them in regard to their brother. |
| John 11:21 | Martha then said to (pros | πρός | prep-acc) Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. |
| John 11:29 | So when Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to (pros | πρός | prep-acc) him. |
| John 11:32 | When Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at (pros | πρός | prep-acc) his feet, saying to him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” |
| John 11:45 | Therefore many of the Jews who had come with (pros | πρός | prep-acc) Mary and seen what he had done, believed in him. |
| John 11:46 | Some of them, however, went to (pros | πρός | prep-acc) the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. |
| John 12:19 | The Pharisees therefore said to (pros | πρός | prep-acc) one another, “You see, you are accomplishing nothing. Look, the world has gone after him!” |
| John 12:32 | And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to (pros | πρός | prep-acc) myself.” |
| John 13:1 | It was just before the festival of Passover, and Jesus, knowing that his hour had come to depart from this world to (pros | πρός | prep-acc) the Father, showed his love to his own who were in the world, loving them to the very end. |
| John 13:3 | Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was returning to (pros | πρός | prep-acc) God, |
| John 13:6 | He came to (pros | πρός | prep-acc) Simon Peter, who said to him, “Lord, are you going to wash my feet?” |
| John 13:28 | Now none of those reclining at table knew why (pros | πρός | prep-acc) he said this to him. |
| John 14:3 | And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and take you to be with (pros | πρός | prep-acc) me, so that where I am, there you may be also. |
| John 14:6 | Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to (pros | πρός | prep-acc) the Father except through me. |
| John 14:12 | I tell you the solemn truth, the one who believes in me will do the works that I do; in fact, greater works than these will he do, because I am going to (pros | πρός | prep-acc) the Father. |
| John 14:18 | I will not abandon you as orphans, I will come back to (pros | πρός | prep-acc) you. |
| John 14:23 | Jesus answered him, saying, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to (pros | πρός | prep-acc) him and make our dwelling place with him. |
| John 14:28 | You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away, and I will come back to (pros | πρός | prep-acc) you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I am going to (pros | πρός | prep-acc) the Father, for the Father is greater than I. |
| John 16:5 | But now I am going away to (pros | πρός | prep-acc) the one who sent me, and none of you asks me, ‘Where are you going?’ |
| John 16:7 | Nevertheless I am telling you the truth; it is to your advantage that I am going away. For if I do not go away, the Paraclete will not come to (pros | πρός | prep-acc) you; but if I go away, I will send him to (pros | πρός | prep-acc) you. |
| John 16:10 | in regard to righteousness, because I am going away to (pros | πρός | prep-acc) the Father, and you will see me no longer; |
| John 16:17 | Some of his disciples therefore said to (pros | πρός | prep-acc) one another, “What is this that he is saying to us, ‘A little while and you will not see me, and again a little while and you will see me’ and, ‘Because I am going to (pros | πρός | prep-acc) the Father’?” |
| John 16:28 | I came forth from the Father and have entered into the world; now I am leaving the world and going back to (pros | πρός | prep-acc) the Father.” |
| John 17:11 | I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am on my way to (pros | πρός | prep-acc) you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, the name that you have given me, so that they may be one, just as we are one. |
| John 17:13 | But now I am on my way to (pros | πρός | prep-acc) you, and I am saying these things while still in the world that they may have my joy made complete in themselves. |
| John 18:13 | They took him first to (pros | πρός | prep-acc) Annas, for he was the father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was high priest that year. |
| John 18:16 | but Peter remained outside at (pros | πρός | prep-dat) the door. So the other disciple, the one who was known to the high priest, went out and spoke to the servant girl who kept watch at the door, and brought Peter in. |
| John 18:24 | Then Annas sent him bound to (pros | πρός | prep-acc) Caiaphas the high priest. |
| John 18:29 | So Pilate came outside to (pros | πρός | prep-acc) them and said, “What accusation are you bringing against this man?” |
| John 18:38 | Pilate said to him, “What is truth?” And having said this he went out again to (pros | πρός | prep-acc) the Jews and said to them, “I find no basis for an accusation against him. |
| John 19:3 | Then they kept coming up to (pros | πρός | prep-acc) him, saying, “Hail, king of the Jews!” and slapping him in the face. |
| John 19:24 | So they said to (pros | πρός | prep-acc) one another, “Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it to see who will get it” — that the Scripture might be fulfilled that says, “They divided my garments among themselves, and for my clothing they cast lots.” So the soldiers did these things. |
| John 19:39 | Nicodemus, who earlier had come to (pros | πρός | prep-acc) Jesus at night, also came, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds. |
| John 20:2 | So she went running to (pros | πρός | prep-acc) Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken our Master out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have put him!” |
| John 20:10 | So the disciples returned to (pros | πρός | prep-acc) their homes. |
| John 20:11 | But Mary stood weeping outside the tomb. As she was weeping she stooped down to look into the tomb. |
| John 20:12 | She saw two angels in white sitting there, one at (pros | πρός | prep-dat) the head and the other at (pros | πρός | prep-dat) the feet of the place where the body of Jesus had been lying. |
| John 20:17 | Jesus said to her, “Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to (pros | πρός | prep-acc) the Father. But go to (pros | πρός | prep-acc) my brothers and say to them, ‘I am ascending to (pros | πρός | prep-acc) my Father and your Father, to (pros | πρός | prep-acc) my God and your God.’” |
Mnemonics
Proost! is a toast in Dutch
Proost! is a toast in Dutch that means TO your health.
I fell PROSstrate TOWARDs the
I fell PROSstrate TOWARDs the king.