Mark 14:57

American Standard Version (1901)

And there stood up certain, and bare false witness against him, saying,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καί τινες ἀναστάντες, ἐψευδομαρτύρουν κατʼ αὐτοῦ, λέγοντες,

Transliteration

And tines anastantes, epseudomartyroun against him, legontes,

Grammar Details

• *tines*: indefinite pronoun, nominative masculine plural - some/certain ones
• *anastantes*: aorist active participle, nominative masculine plural - having stood up
• *epseudomartyroun*: imperfect active indicative, 3rd plural - were bearing false witness
• *legontes*: present active participle, nominative masculine plural - saying

Word Meanings

• *tines*: some/certain ones
• *anastantes*: having stood up/risen
• *epseudomartyroun*: were bearing false witness/were testifying falsely [continuous action]
• *legontes*: saying/declaring

Referenced Verses

• Matt 26:60-61 : 60 and they found it not, though many false witnesses came. But afterward came two, 61 and said, This man said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.
• Matt 27:40 : 40 and saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself: if thou art the Son of God, come down from the cross.
• Mark 15:29 : 29 And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads, and saying, Ha! Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days,
• John 2:18-21 : 18 The Jews therefore answered and said unto him, What sign showest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things? 19 Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. 20 The Jews therefore said, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou raise it up in three days? 21 But he spake of the temple of his body.
• Acts 6:13-14 : 13 and set up false witnesses, who said, This man ceaseth not to speak words against this holy place, and the law: 14 for we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered unto us.
• Jer 26:8-9 : 8 And it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that Jehovah had commanded him to speak unto all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people laid hold on him, saying, Thou shalt surely die. 9 Why hast thou prophesied in the name of Jehovah, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate, without inhabitant? And all the people were gathered unto Jeremiah in the house of Jehovah.
• Jer 26:18 : 18 Micah the Morashtite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.