Personal pronoun kagō (and I, I also) in the Gospels-Acts

(Translation from NRSV with a few modifications for a more literal meaning)


Matthew

2: 8Then he sent them to Bethlehem, saying, "Go and search diligently for the child; and when you have found him, bring me word so that I may also (kagō) go and pay him homage."
10: 32"Everyone therefore who acknowledges me before others, I also (kagō) will acknowledge before my Father in heaven;
10: 33but whoever denies me before others, I also (kagō) will deny before my Father in heaven.
11: 28"Come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I (kagō) will give you rest.
16: 18And I (kagō) tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.
18: 33Should you not have had mercy on your fellow slave, as I also (kagō) had mercy on you?'
21: 24Jesus said to them, "I will also ask you and I (kagō) only one question; if you tell me the answer, then I will also (kagō) tell you by what authority I do these things.
26: 15and said, "What will you give me and I (kagō) will betray him to you?" They paid him thirty pieces of silver.

Luke

1: 3I also (kagō), after investigating everything carefully from the very first, I decided to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus,
2: 48When his parents saw him they were astonished; and his mother said to him, "Child, why have you treated us like this? Look, your father and I (kagō) have been searching for you in great anxiety."
11: 9"And I (kagō) say to you, Ask, and it will be given you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.
19: 23Why then did you not put my money into the bank? And I (kagō), when returning, I could have collected it with interest.'
20: 3He answered them, "I will also ask you, and I (kagō) a question, and you tell me:
22: 29and I (kagō) confer on you, just as my Father has conferred on me, a kingdom,

John

1: 31And I (kagō) did not know him; but I came baptizing with water for this reason, that he might be revealed to Israel."
1: 33And I (kagō) did not know him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water said to me, 'He on whom you see the Spirit descend and remain is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.'
1: 34And I (kagō) myself have seen and have testified that this is the Son of God."
5: 17But Jesus answered them, "My Father is still working, and I also (kagō) am working."
6: 44No one can come to me unless drawn by the Father who sent me; and I (kagō) will raise that person up on the last day.
6: 54Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood have eternal life, and I (kagō) will raise them up on the last day;
6: 56Those who eat my flesh and drink my blood abide in me, and I (kagō) in them.
6: 57Just as the living Father sent me, and I (kagō) live because of the Father, so whoever eats me will live because of me.
7: 28Then Jesus cried out as he was teaching in the temple, "And me (kagō), You know, and you know where I am from. I have not come on my own. But the one who sent me is true, and you do not know him.
8: 26I have much to say about you and much to condemn; but the one who sent me is true, and I (kagō) declare to the world what I have heard from him."
10: 15just as the Father knows me and I (kagō) know the Father. And I lay down my life for the sheep.
10: 27My sheep hear my voice. And I (kagō) know them, and they follow me.
10: 28And I (kagō) give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one will snatch them out of my hand.
10: 38But if I do them, even though you do not believe me, believe the works, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in me and I (kagō) am in the Father."
12: 32And I (kagō), when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself."
14: 16And I (kagō) will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you forever.
14: 20On that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I (kagō) in you.
14: 21They who have my commandments and keep them are those who love me; and those who love me will be loved by my Father, and I (kagō) will love them and reveal myself to them."
15: 4Abide in me, I also (kagō) abide in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me.
15: 5I am the vine, you are the branches. Those who abide in me and I (kagō) in them bear much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing.
15: 9As the Father has loved me, I also (kagō) have loved you, abide in my love.
16: 32The hour is coming, indeed it has come, when you will be scattered, each one to his home, and me (kagō) you will leave alone. Yet I am not alone because the Father is with me.
17: 6"I have made your name known to those whom you gave me from the world. They were yours, and to me (kagō) you gave them, and they have kept your word.
17: 11And now I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I (kagō) am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one, as we are one.
17: 18As you have sent me into the world, I also (kagō) have sent them into the world.
17: 21that they may all be one. As you, Father, are in me and I (kagō) am in you, may they also be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.
17: 22And I (kagō) have given them the glory that you have given me, so that they may be one, as we are one,
17: 26I made your name known to them, and I will make it known, so that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I (kagō) in them."
20: 15Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you looking for?" Supposing him to be the gardener, she said to him, "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him, and I (kagō) will take him away."
20: 21Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, I also (kagō) send you."

Acts

8: 19saying, "Give me also (kagō) this power so that anyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit."
10: 28and he said to them, "You yourselves know that it is unlawful for a Jew to associate with or to visit a Gentile; but also me (kagō) God has shown that I should not call anyone profane or unclean.
22: 13came to me; and standing beside me, he said, 'Brother Saul, regain your sight!' In that very hour I also (kagō) regained my sight and saw him.
22: 19And I (kagō) said, 'Lord, they themselves know that in every synagogue I imprisoned and beat those who believed in you.