John 6:71

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Now he spake of Judas [the son] of Simon Iscariot, for he it was that should betray him, [being] one of the twelve.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἔλεγεν δὲ τὸν Ἰούδαν Σίμωνος Ἰσκαριώτην: οὗτος γὰρ ἤμελλεν αὐτὸν παραδιδόναι, εἷς ὢν ἐκ τῶν δώδεκα.

Transliteration

Elegen de the Ioudan Simōnos Iskariōtēn: houtos gar ēmellen auton paradidonai, one ōn from the twelve.

Grammar Details

• *Elegen*: imperfect active, 3rd singular - was speaking/saying
• δὲ: postpositive conjunction - but/and/now
• τὸν: accusative, masculine, singular article - the
• *Ioudan*: accusative, masculine, singular - Judas
• *Simōnos*: genitive, masculine, singular - of Simon
• *Iskariōtēn*: accusative, masculine, singular - Iscariot
• *houtos*: nominative, masculine, singular demonstrative pronoun - this one/he
• *gar*: postpositive conjunction - for/because
• *ēmellen*: imperfect active, 3rd singular - was about to/was going to
• *auton*: accusative, masculine, singular pronoun - him
• *paradidonai*: present active infinitive - to betray/to hand over
• εἷς: nominative, masculine, singular - one
• *ōn*: present active participle, nominative, masculine, singular - being
• ἐκ: preposition + genitive - from/out of
• τῶν: genitive, plural article - the
• δώδεκα: genitive, plural, number - twelve

Word Meanings

• *Elegen*: was saying/was speaking about/was referring to
• *ēmellen*: was about to/was going to/was intending to
• *paradidonai*: betray/hand over/deliver up
• *Iskariōtēn*: Iscariot (possibly 'man from Kerioth')

Referenced Verses

• Matt 26:14-16 : 14 Then one of the twelve, who was called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests, 15 and said, What are ye willing to give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they weighed unto him thirty pieces of silver. 16 And from that time he sought opportunity to deliver him [unto them].
• Matt 27:3-5 : 3 Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, 4 saying, I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood. But they said, What is that to us? see thou [to it]. 5 And he cast down the pieces of silver into the sanctuary, and departed; and he went away and hanged himself.
• John 13:26 : 26 Jesus therefore answereth, He it is, for whom I shall dip the sop, and give it him. So when he had dipped the sop, he taketh and giveth it to Judas, [the son] of Simon Iscariot.
• John 18:2-6 : 2 Now Judas also, who betrayed him, knew the place: for Jesus oft-times resorted thither with his disciples. 3 Judas then, having received the band [of soldiers], and officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and torches and weapons. 4 Jesus therefore, knowing all the things that were coming upon him, went forth, and saith unto them, Whom seek ye? 5 They answered him, Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus saith unto them, I am [he]. And Judas also, who betrayed him, was standing with them. 6 When therefore he said unto them, I am [he], they went {G1519} backward, and fell to the ground.
• Acts 1:16-20 : 16 {G435} Brethren, it was needful that the Scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spake before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who was guide to them that took Jesus. 17 For he was numbered among us, and received his portion in this ministry. 18 (Now this man obtained a field with the reward of his iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out. 19 And it became known to all the dwellers at Jerusalem; insomuch that in their {G2398} language that field was called Akeldama, that is, The field of blood.) 20 For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his habitation be made desolate, And let no man dwell therein: and, His office let another take.
• Acts 2:23 : 23 him, being delivered up by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye by the hand of lawless men did crucify and slay:
• Jude 1:4 : 4 For there are certain men crept in privily, [even] they who were of old written of beforehand unto this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying our only Master {G2316} and {G2257} Lord, Jesus Christ.
• Ps 41:9 : 9 Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, Who did eat of my bread, Hath lifted up his heel against me.
• Ps 55:13-14 : 13 But it was thou, a man mine equal, My companion, and my familiar friend. 14 We took sweet counsel together; We walked in the house of God with the throng.
• Ps 109:6-8 : 6 Set thou a wicked man over him; And let an adversary stand at his right hand. 7 When he is judged, let him come forth guilty; And let his prayer be turned into sin. 8 Let his days be few; [And] let another take his office.