Luke 9:60

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

But he said unto him, Leave the dead to bury their own dead; but go thou and publish abroad the kingdom of God.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Εἶπεν δὲ αὐτῷ ὁ Ἰησοῦς, Ἄφες τοὺς νεκροὺς θάψαι τοὺς ἑαυτῶν νεκρούς: σὺ δὲ ἀπελθὼν διάγγελλε τὴν βασιλείαν τοῦ Θεοῦ.

Transliteration

Eipen de to-him the Iēsous, Aphes the nekrous thapsai the of-themselves nekrous: you de apelthōn diaggelle the basileian of-the Theou.

Grammar Details

• *Eipen*: aorist active indicative, 3rd singular - said/spoke [completed action]
• *de*: postpositive conjunction - but/and/now
• *Iēsous*: nominative, masculine, singular - Jesus
• *Aphes*: aorist active imperative, 2nd singular - allow/permit/let [command]
• *nekrous*: accusative, masculine, plural - dead [people]
• *thapsai*: aorist active infinitive - to bury
• *heautōn*: genitive, reflexive pronoun - their own/themselves
• *su*: nominative, 2nd singular pronoun - you
• *apelthōn*: aorist active participle, nominative masculine singular - having gone away/departed
• *diaggelle*: present active imperative, 2nd singular - proclaim/announce thoroughly [ongoing command]
• *basileian*: accusative, feminine, singular - kingdom/reign
• *Theou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of God

Word Meanings

• *Aphes*: let/permit/allow/leave
• *nekrous*: dead people/corpses/spiritually dead
• *apelthōn*: having departed/gone away/left
• *diaggelle*: announce thoroughly/proclaim everywhere/declare fully
• *basileian*: kingdom/reign/rule/sovereignty

Referenced Verses

• John 21:15-17 : 15 So when they had broken their fast, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, [son] of John, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs. 16 He saith to him again a second time, Simon, [son] of John, lovest thou me? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Tend my sheep. 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.
• 2 Tim 2:3-4 : 3 {G4771} {G3767} Suffer hardship with [me], as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. 4 No soldier on service entangleth himself in the affairs of [this] life; that he may please him who enrolled him as a soldier.
• 2 Tim 4:2 : 2 preach the word; be urgent in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.
• 2 Tim 4:5 : 5 But be thou sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfil thy ministry.
• Rev 3:1 : 1 And to the angel of the church in Sardis write: These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars: I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and thou art dead.
• 1 Cor 9:16 : 16 For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of; for necessity is laid upon me; for woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel.
• 2 Cor 5:16-18 : 16 Wherefore {G575} we henceforth know no man after the flesh: {G1161} even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know [him so] no more. 17 Wherefore if any man is in Christ, [he is] a new creature: the old things are passed away; behold, they are become new. 18 But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through {G2424} Christ, and gave unto us the ministry of reconciliation;
• Eph 2:1 : 1 And you [did he make alive,] when ye were dead through your trespasses and sins,
• Eph 2:5 : 5 even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace have ye been saved),
• 1 Tim 5:6 : 6 But she that giveth herself to pleasure is dead while she liveth.
• Luke 15:32 : 32 But it was meet to make merry and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive [again]; and [was] lost, and is found.