Luke 9:54

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And when his disciples James and John saw [this], they said, Lord, wilt thou that we bid fire to come down from heaven, and consume them?

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἰδόντες δὲ οἱ μαθηταὶ αὐτοῦ Ἰάκωβος καὶ Ἰωάννης, εἶπον, Κύριε, θέλεις εἴπωμεν πῦρ καταβῆναι ἀπὸ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, καὶ ἀναλῶσαι αὐτούς, ὡς καὶ Ἠλίας ἐποίησεν;

Transliteration

Idontes de the mathētai of him Iakōbos and Iōannēs, eipon, Kyrie, do you theleis eipōmen pyr katabēnai from the ouranou, and analōsai them, as also Ēlias epoiēsen?

Grammar Details

• *Idontes*: aorist active participle, nominative masculine plural - having seen/observed
• *de*: postpositive adversative particle - but/and/now
• *mathētai*: nominative masculine plural - disciples/students
• *Iakōbos*: nominative masculine singular - James
• *Iōannēs*: nominative masculine singular - John
• *eipon*: aorist active indicative, 3rd plural - said/spoke
• *Kyrie*: vocative masculine singular - Lord/Master/Sir
• *theleis*: present active indicative, 2nd singular - you wish/want/desire
• *eipōmen*: aorist active subjunctive, 1st plural - we might say/command
• *pyr*: accusative neuter singular - fire
• *katabēnai*: aorist active infinitive - to come down/descend
• *ouranou*: genitive masculine singular - heaven/sky
• *analōsai*: aorist active infinitive - to consume/destroy
• *Ēlias*: nominative masculine singular - Elijah
• *epoiēsen*: aorist active indicative, 3rd singular - did/made

Word Meanings

• *Idontes*: having seen/observed/noticed
• *mathētai*: disciples/students/followers
• *Iakōbos*: James
• *Iōannēs*: John
• *eipon*: said/spoke/asked
• *Kyrie*: Lord/Master/Sir
• *theleis*: you wish/want/desire
• *eipōmen*: we might say/command/order
• *pyr*: fire
• *katabēnai*: to come down/descend/fall
• *ouranou*: heaven/sky
• *analōsai*: to consume/destroy/devour
• *Ēlias*: Elijah
• *epoiēsen*: did/made/performed

Referenced Verses

• 2 Kgs 1:10-14 : 10 And Elijah answered and said to the captain of fifty, If I be a man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty. 11 And again he sent unto him another captain of fifty and his fifty. And he answered and said unto him, O man of God, thus hath the king said, Come down quickly. 12 And Elijah answered and said unto them, If I be a man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And the fire of God came down from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty. 13 And again he sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. And the third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and besought him, and said unto him, O man of God, I pray thee, let my life, and the life of these fifty thy servants, be precious in thy sight. 14 Behold, there came fire down from heaven, and consumed the two former captains of fifty with their fifties; but now let my life be precious in thy sight.
• Jas 1:19-20 : 19 Ye know [this], my beloved brethren. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: 20 for the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
• Jas 3:14-18 : 14 But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth. 15 This wisdom is not [a wisdom] that cometh down from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. 16 For where jealousy and faction are, there is confusion and every vile deed. 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first {G3303} pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without variance, {G2532} without hypocrisy. 18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace for them that make peace.
• Acts 4:29-30 : 29 And now, Lord, look upon their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants to speak thy word with all boldness, 30 while thy stretchest forth thy {G4571} hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done through the name of thy holy Servant Jesus.
• 2 Sam 21:2 : 2 And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal for the children of Israel and Judah);
• 2 Kgs 10:16 : 16 And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for Jehovah. So they made him ride in his chariot.
• 2 Kgs 10:31 : 31 But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of Jehovah, the God of Israel, with all his heart: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, wherewith he made Israel to sin.
• Rev 13:3 : 3 And [I saw] one of his heads as though it had been smitten unto death; and his death-stroke {G4127} was healed: and the whole earth wondered {G1722} after the beast;