Matthew 12:25

American Standard Version (1901)

And knowing their thoughts he said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Εἰδὼς δὲ ὁ Ἰησοῦς τὰς ἐνθυμήσεις αὐτῶν, εἶπεν αὐτοῖς, Πᾶσα βασιλεία μερισθεῖσα καθʼ ἑαυτῆς ἐρημοῦται· καὶ πᾶσα πόλις ἢ οἰκία μερισθεῖσα καθʼ ἑαυτῆς οὐ σταθήσεται:

Transliteration

Eidōs de the Iēsous the enthymēseis of them, eipen to them, Every basileia meristheisa against itself erēmoutai; and every polis or oikia meristheisa against itself not stathēsetai:

Grammar Details

• *Eidōs*: perfect participle, nominative, masculine, singular - having known/perceived
• *de*: postpositive conjunction - but/and/now
• *Iēsous*: nominative, masculine, singular - Jesus
• *enthymēseis*: accusative, feminine, plural - thoughts/considerations/intentions
• *eipen*: aorist, active, indicative, 3rd singular - said/spoke
• *basileia*: nominative, feminine, singular - kingdom/reign
• *meristheisa*: aorist passive participle, feminine, singular - having been divided
• *erēmoutai*: present, passive, indicative, 3rd singular - is being laid waste/made desolate
• *polis*: nominative, feminine, singular - city/town
• *oikia*: nominative, feminine, singular - house/household
• *stathēsetai*: future, passive, indicative, 3rd singular - will stand/endure

Word Meanings

• *Eidōs*: knowing/perceiving/understanding
• *enthymēseis*: thoughts/intentions/designs/plots
• *basileia*: kingdom/reign/rule/domain
• *erēmoutai*: is made desolate/is laid waste/is brought to ruin
• *polis*: city/state/community
• *oikia*: house/household/family
• *stathēsetai*: will stand/will endure/will remain

Referenced Verses

• Matt 9:4 : 4 And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts?
• Jer 17:10 : 10 I, Jehovah, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.
• Ps 139:2 : 2 Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising; Thou understandest my thought afar off.
• Gal 5:15 : 15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
• Heb 4:13 : 13 And there is no creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
• Rev 2:23 : 23 And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he that searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto each one of you according to your works.
• Rev 16:19 : 19 And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and Babylon the great was remembered in the sight of God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
• Rev 17:16-17 : 16 And the ten horns which thou sawest, and the beast, these shall hate the harlot, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and shall burn her utterly with fire. 17 For God did put in their hearts to do his mind, and to come to one mind, and to give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God should be accomplished.
• Isa 9:21 : 21 Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh; and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
• Isa 19:2-3 : 2 And I will stir up the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbor; city against city, [and] kingdom against kingdom. 3 And the spirit of Egypt shall fail in the midst of it; and I will destroy the counsel thereof: and they shall seek unto the idols, and to the charmers, and to them that have familiar spirits, and to the wizards.
• Amos 4:13 : 13 For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought; that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth--Jehovah, the God of hosts, is his name.
• Mark 2:8 : 8 And straightway Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, saith unto them, Why reason ye these things in your hearts?
• Mark 3:23-27 : 23 And he called them unto him, and said unto them in parables, How can Satan cast out Satan? 24 And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. 25 And if a house be divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand. 26 And if Satan hath risen up against himself, and is divided, he cannot stand, but hath an end. 27 But no one can enter into the house of the strong [man], and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong [man] ; and then he will spoil his house.
• Luke 11:17-22 : 17 But he, knowing their thoughts, said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a house [divided] against a house falleth. 18 And if Satan also is divided against himself, how shall his kingdom stand? because ye say that I cast out demons by Beelzebub. 19 And if I by Beelzebub cast out demons, by whom do your sons cast them out? therefore shall they be your judges. 20 But if I by the finger of God cast out demons, then is the kingdom of God come upon you. 21 When the strong [man] fully armed guardeth his own court, his goods are in peace: 22 but when a stronger than he shall come upon him, and overcome him, he taketh from him his whole armor wherein he trusted, and divideth his spoils.
• John 2:24-25 : 24 But Jesus did not trust himself unto them, for that he knew all men, 25 and because he needed not that any one should bear witness concerning man; for he himself knew what was in man.
• John 21:17 : 17 He saith unto him the third time, Simon, [son] of John, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep.
• 1 Cor 2:11 : 11 For who among men knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of the man, which is in him? even so the things of God none knoweth, save the Spirit of God.