Mark 12:24

American Standard Version (1901)

Jesus said unto them, Is it not for this cause that ye err, that ye know not the scriptures, nor the power of God?

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ ἀποκριθεὶς ὁ Ἰησοῦς εἶπεν αὐτοῖς, Οὐ διὰ τοῦτο πλανᾶσθε, μὴ εἰδότες τὰς γραφάς, μηδὲ τὴν δύναμιν τοῦ Θεοῦ;

Transliteration

And apokritheis the Iēsous eipen to them, Not dia this planasthe, not eidotes the graphas, neither the dynamin of the Theou?

Grammar Details

• *apokritheis*: aorist passive participle, nominative, masculine, singular - having answered
• *Iēsous*: nominative, masculine, singular - Jesus
• *eipen*: aorist active indicative, 3rd singular - said [completed action]
• *dia*: preposition + accusative - because of/through
• *planasthe*: present passive indicative, 2nd plural - you are being led astray
• *eidotes*: perfect active participle, nominative, plural - knowing/having known
• *graphas*: accusative, feminine, plural - writings/scriptures
• *dynamin*: accusative, feminine, singular - power/strength
• *Theou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of God

Word Meanings

• *apokritheis*: having answered/responded
• *eipen*: said/spoke
• *dia*: because of/through/for
• *planasthe*: you are being led astray/deceived/in error
• *eidotes*: knowing/understanding/having knowledge of
• *graphas*: writings/scriptures
• *dynamin*: power/strength/ability/might
• *Theou*: of God/deity

Referenced Verses

• John 20:9 : 9 For as yet they knew not the scripture, that he must rise from the dead.
• Matt 22:29 : 29 But Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God.
• Isa 25:8 : 8 He hath swallowed up death for ever; and the Lord Jehovah will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the reproach of his people will he take away from off all the earth: for Jehovah hath spoken it.
• Hos 6:2 : 2 After two days will he revive us: on the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live before him.
• 2 Tim 3:15-17 : 15 And that from a babe thou hast known the sacred writings which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. 16 Every scripture inspired of God [is] also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction which is in righteousness. 17 That the man of God may be complete, furnished completely unto every good work.
• Gen 18:14 : 14 Is anything too hard for Jehovah? At the set time I will return unto thee, when the season cometh round, and Sarah shall have a son.
• Job 19:25-27 : 25 But as for me I know that my Redeemer liveth, And at last he will stand up upon the earth: 26 And after my skin, [even] this [body], is destroyed, Then without my flesh shall I see God; 27 Whom I, even I, shall see, on my side, And mine eyes shall behold, and not as a stranger. My heart is consumed within me.
• Isa 8:20 : 20 To the law and to the testimony! if they speak not according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.
• Hos 6:6 : 6 For I desire goodness, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt-offerings.
• Hos 8:12 : 12 I wrote for him the ten thousand things of my law; but they are counted as a strange thing.
• Hos 13:14 : 14 I will ransom them from the power of Sheol; I will redeem them from death: O death, where are thy plagues? O Sheol, where is thy destruction? repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
• Isa 26:19 : 19 Thy dead shall live; my dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in the dust; for thy dew is [as] the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast forth the dead.
• Jer 8:7-9 : 7 Yea, the stork in the heavens knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle-dove and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the law of Jehovah. 8 How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of Jehovah is with us? But, behold, the false pen of the scribes hath wrought falsely. 9 The wise men are put to shame, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of Jehovah; and what manner of wisdom is in them?
• Jer 32:17 : 17 Ah Lord Jehovah! behold, thou hast made the heavens and the earth by thy great power and by thine outstretched arm; there is nothing too hard for thee,
• Ezek 37:1-9 : 1 The hand of Jehovah was upon me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of Jehovah, and set me down in the midst of the valley; and it was full of bones. 2 And he caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry. 3 And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord Jehovah, thou knowest. 4 Again he said unto me, Prophesy over these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of Jehovah. 5 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah unto these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live. 6 And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am Jehovah. 7 So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and, behold, an earthquake; and the bones came together, bone to its bone. 8 And I beheld, and, lo, there were sinews upon them, and flesh came up, and skin covered them above; but there was no breath in them. 9 Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live. 10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army. 11 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are clean cut off. 12 Therefore prophesy, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, O my people; and I will bring you into the land of Israel. 13 And ye shall know that I am Jehovah, when I have opened your graves, and caused you to come up out of your graves, O my people. 14 And I will put my Spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I will place you in your own land: and ye shall know that I, Jehovah, have spoken it and performed it, saith Jehovah.
• Dan 12:2 : 2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
• Mark 10:27 : 27 Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for all things are possible with God.
• Luke 1:37 : 37 For no word from God shall be void of power.
• John 5:39 : 39 Ye search the scriptures, because ye think that in them ye have eternal life; and these are they which bear witness of me;
• Acts 17:11 : 11 Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of the mind, examining the Scriptures daily, whether these things were so.
• Rom 15:4 : 4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that through patience and through comfort of the scriptures we might have hope.
• Eph 1:19 : 19 and what the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might
• Phil 3:21 : 21 who shall fashion anew the body of our humiliation, [that it may be] conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working whereby he is able even to subject all things unto himself.