Mark 11:3

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And if any one say unto you, Why do ye this? say ye, The Lord hath need of him; and straightway he will send him back hither.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ ἐάν τις ὑμῖν εἴπῃ, Τί ποιεῖτε τοῦτο; εἴπατε ὅτι Ὁ Κύριος αὐτοῦ χρείαν ἔχει· καὶ εὐθέως αὐτὸν ἀποστελεῖ ὧδε.

Transliteration

And if tis to you eipē, Why poieite this? eipate that The Kyrios of it chreian echei; and eutheōs him he will apostelei here.

Grammar Details

• *tis*: indefinite pronoun, nominative, masculine, singular - anyone/someone
• *eipē*: aorist active subjunctive, 3rd singular - might say/ask
• *poieite*: present active indicative, 2nd plural - you do/are doing
• *eipate*: aorist active imperative, 2nd plural - say/tell
• *Kyrios*: nominative, masculine, singular - Lord/master
• *chreian echei*: present active indicative phrase - has need
• *eutheōs*: adverb - immediately/at once
• *apostelei*: future active indicative, 3rd singular - will send back/return

Word Meanings

• *tis*: anyone/someone
• *Kyrios*: Lord/Master/Owner
• *chreian echei*: has need/requires/needs
• *apostelei*: will send back/return/dispatch

Referenced Verses

• 1 Chr 29:12-18 : 12 Both riches and honor come of thee, and thou rulest over all; and in thy hand is power and might; and in thy hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all. 13 Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name. 14 But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee. 15 For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding. 16 O Jehovah our God, all this store that we have prepared to build thee a house for thy holy name cometh of thy hand, and is all thine own. 17 I know also, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy thy people, that are present here, offer willingly unto thee. 18 O Jehovah, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and prepare their heart unto thee;
• Ps 24:1 : 1 A Psalm of David. The earth is Jehovah's, and the fulness thereof; The world, and they that dwell therein.
• Ps 110:3 : 3 Thy people offer themselves willingly In the day of thy power, in holy array: Out of the womb of the morning Thou hast the dew of thy youth.
• Mark 14:15 : 15 And he will himself show you a large upper room furnished [and] ready: and there make ready for us.
• Acts 1:24 : 24 And they prayed, and said, Thou, Lord, who knowest the hearts of all men, show of these two the one whom thou hast chosen,
• Acts 10:36 : 36 The word which he sent unto the children of Israel, preaching good tidings of peace by Jesus Christ (He is Lord of all.) —
• Acts 17:25 : 25 neither is he served by men's hands, as though he needed anything, seeing he himself giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;
• 2 Cor 8:9 : 9 For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might become rich.
• Heb 2:7-9 : 7 Thou madest him a little {G5100} lower than the angels; Thou crownedst him with glory and honor, And didst set him over the works of thy hands: 8 Thou didst put all things in subjection under his feet. For in that he subjected all things unto him, he left nothing that is not subject to him. But now we see not yet all things subjected to him. 9 But we behold him who hath been made a little {G5100} lower than the angels, [even] Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for every [man].