Luke 18:16

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

But Jesus called them unto him, saying, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for to such belongeth the kingdom of God.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὁ δὲ Ἰησοῦς προσκαλεσάμενος αὐτὰ, εἶπεν, Ἄφετε τὰ παιδία ἔρχεσθαι πρός με, καὶ μὴ κωλύετε αὐτά: τῶν γὰρ τοιούτων ἐστὶν ἡ βασιλεία τοῦ Θεοῦ.

Transliteration

The de Iēsous proskalesamenos them, eipen, Aphete the paidia erchesthai pros me, and not kōlyete them: of-the for such estin the basileia of-the Theou.

Grammar Details

• *de*: conjunction, adversative/transitional - but/and
• *Iēsous*: nominative masculine singular - Jesus
• *proskalesamenos*: aorist middle participle, nominative masculine singular - having called to
• *eipen*: aorist active indicative, 3rd person singular - said
• *Aphete*: aorist active imperative, 2nd person plural - allow/permit
• *paidia*: accusative neuter plural - children
• *erchesthai*: present middle/passive infinitive - to come
• *pros*: preposition + accusative - to/toward
• *kōlyete*: present active imperative, 2nd person plural - hinder/prevent/forbid
• *estin*: present active indicative, 3rd person singular - is
• *basileia*: nominative feminine singular - kingdom
• *Theou*: genitive masculine singular - of God

Word Meanings

• *proskalesamenos*: having called to/summoned/called near
• *Aphete*: allow/permit/let
• *paidia*: children/little ones
• *erchesthai*: to come/be coming
• *kōlyete*: hinder/prevent/forbid
• *basileia*: kingdom/reign/rule

Referenced Verses

• Deut 31:12 : 12 Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and thy sojourner that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear Jehovah your God, and observe to do all the words of this law;
• Acts 2:39 : 39 For to you is the promise, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, [even] as many as {G302} the Lord our God shall call unto him.
• 1 Cor 14:20 : 20 Brethren, be not children in mind: yet in malice be ye babes, but in mind be men.
• 1 Pet 2:2 : 2 as newborn babes, long for the spiritual milk {G3050} which is without guile, that ye may grow thereby unto salvation;
• 1 Cor 7:14 : 14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the brother: else {G1893} were your children unclean; but now are they holy.
• Gen 21:4 : 4 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.
• Gen 47:10-14 : 10 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from the presence of Pharaoh. 11 And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded. 12 And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to their families. 13 And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine. 14 And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the grain which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.
• Deut 29:11 : 11 your little ones, your wives, and thy sojourner that is in the midst of thy camps, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water;
• 2 Chr 20:13 : 13 And all Judah stood before Jehovah, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.
• Jer 32:39 : 39 and I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:
• Matt 18:3-4 : 3 and said, Truly I say unto you, Except you turn, and become as little sons, you shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of heaven. 4 Whoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.