John 1:24

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And they had been sent from the Pharisees.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ οἱ ἀπεσταλμένοι ἦσαν ἐκ τῶν Φαρισαίων.

Transliteration

And the apestalmenoi ēsan from the Pharisaiōn.

Grammar Details

• *apestalmenoi*: perfect passive participle, nominative masculine plural of *apostellō* - having been sent
• *ēsan*: imperfect active indicative 3rd person plural of *eimi* - were
• *Pharisaiōn*: genitive masculine plural - of Pharisees

Word Meanings

• *apestalmenoi*: those sent/envoys/messengers
• *Pharisaiōn*: Pharisees (Jewish religious group)

Referenced Verses

• Luke 16:14 : 14 And the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all these things; and they scoffed at him.
• John 3:1-2 : 1 Now there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews: 2 the same came unto him by night, and said to him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God; for no one can do these signs that thou doest, except God be with him.
• John 7:47-49 : 47 The Pharisees therefore answered them, Are ye also led astray? 48 Hath any of the rulers believed on him, or of the Pharisees? 49 But this multitude that knoweth not the law are accursed.
• Acts 23:8 : 8 For the Sadducees {G3303} say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess both.
• Acts 26:5 : 5 having knowledge of me from the first, if they be willing to testify, that after the straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
• Phil 3:5-6 : 5 circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee; 6 as touching zeal, persecuting the church; as touching the righteousness which is in the law, found blameless.
• Matt 23:13-15 : 13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye enter not in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering in to enter. 15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he is become so, ye make him twofold more a son of hell than yourselves.
• Matt 23:26 : 26 Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first the inside of the cup and of the platter, that the outside thereof may become clean also.
• Luke 7:30 : 30 But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected for themselves the counsel of God, being not baptized of him.
• Luke 11:39-44 : 39 And the Lord said unto him, Now {G2511} ye the Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter; but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness. 40 Ye foolish ones, did not he that made the outside make the inside also? 41 But give for alms those things which are within; and behold, all things are clean unto you. 42 But woe unto you Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and every herb, and pass over justice and the love of God: but these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. 43 Woe unto you Pharisees! for ye love the chief seats in the synagogues, and the salutations in the marketplaces. 44 Woe unto you! for ye are as the tombs which appear not, and the men that walk over [them] know it not.
• Luke 11:53 : 53 And when he {G3004} was come out from thence, the scribes and the Pharisees began to press upon [him] vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things;