Luke 10:37

American Standard Version (1901)

And he said, He that showed mercy on him. And Jesus said unto him, Go, and do thou likewise.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὁ δὲ εἶπεν, Ὁ ποιήσας τὸ ἔλεος μετʼ αὐτοῦ. Εἶπεν οὖν αὐτῷ ὁ Ἰησοῦς, Πορεύου, καὶ σὺ ποίει ὁμοίως.

Transliteration

He de eipen, The one poiēsas the eleos met' him. Eipen oun to him the Iēsous, Poreuou, and you poiei homoiōs.

Grammar Details

• *de*: postpositive conjunction - and/but
• *eipen*: aorist active indicative, 3rd singular - said/spoke
• *poiēsas*: aorist active participle, nominative, masculine, singular - having shown/done
• *eleos*: accusative, neuter, singular - mercy
• *met'*: preposition + genitive - with
• *oun*: inferential conjunction - therefore/so
• *Iēsous*: nominative, masculine, singular - Jesus
• *Poreuou*: present middle imperative, 2nd singular - go/proceed
• *poiei*: present active imperative, 2nd singular - do/act
• *homoiōs*: adverb - likewise/similarly

Word Meanings

• *eipen*: said/spoke/told
• *poiēsas*: having shown/done/performed
• *eleos*: mercy/compassion/pity
• *Poreuou*: go/proceed/travel
• *poiei*: do/act/practice
• *homoiōs*: likewise/similarly/in the same way

Referenced Verses

• 1 John 3:16-18 : 16 Hereby know we love, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. 17 But whoso hath the world's goods, and beholdeth his brother in need, and shutteth up his compassion from him, how doth the love of God abide in him? 18 [ My] Little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue; but in deed and truth.
• 1 Pet 2:21 : 21 For hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that ye should follow his steps:
• Mic 6:8 : 8 He hath showed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth Jehovah require of thee, but to do justly, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with thy God?
• Matt 23:23 : 23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye tithe mint and anise and cummin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law, justice, and mercy, and faith: but these ye ought to have done, and not to have left the other undone.
• Luke 6:32-36 : 32 And if ye love them that love you, what thank have ye? for even sinners love those that love them. 33 And if ye do good to them that do good to you, what thank have ye? for even sinners do the same. 34 And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? even sinners lend to sinners, to receive again as much. 35 But love your enemies, and do [them] good, and lend, never despairing; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be sons of the Most High: for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil. 36 Be ye merciful, even as your Father is merciful.
• John 13:15-17 : 15 For I have given you an example, that ye also should do as I have done to you. 16 Verily, verily, I say unto you, A servant is not greater than his lord; neither one that is sent greater than he that sent him. 17 If ye know these things, blessed are ye if ye do them.
• 2 Cor 8:9 : 9 For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might become rich.
• Eph 3:18-19 : 18 may be strong to apprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19 and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge, that ye may be filled unto all the fulness of God.
• Eph 5:2 : 2 and walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of a sweet smell.
• Matt 20:28 : 28 even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.
• Prov 14:21 : 21 He that despiseth his neighbor sinneth; But he that hath pity on the poor, happy is he.
• Hos 6:6 : 6 For I desire goodness, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.
• 1 John 3:23-24 : 23 And this is his commandment, that we should believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, even as he gave us commandment. 24 And he that keepeth his commandments abideth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he gave us.
• 1 John 4:10-11 : 10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
• Rev 1:5 : 5 and from Jesus Christ, [who is] the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loveth us, and loosed us from our sins by his blood;
• Heb 2:9-9 : 9 But we behold him who hath been made a little lower than the angels, [even] Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for every [man] . 10 For it became him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the author of their salvation perfect through sufferings. 11 For both he that sanctifieth and they that are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, 12 saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, In the midst of the congregation will I sing thy praise. 13 And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold, I and the children whom God hath given me. 14 Since then the children are sharers in flesh and blood, he also himself in like manner partook of the same; that through death he might bring to nought him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; 15 and might deliver all them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.