Mark 8:17

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And Jesus perceiving it saith unto them, Why reason ye, because ye have no bread? do ye not yet perceive, neither understand? have ye your heart hardened?

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ γνοὺς ὁ Ἰησοῦς, λέγει αὐτοῖς, Τί διαλογίζεσθε, ὅτι ἄρτους οὐκ ἔχετε; οὔπω νοεῖτε, οὐδὲ συνίετε; ἔτι πεπωρωμένην ἔχετε τὴν καρδίαν ὑμῶν;

Transliteration

And having gnous the Iēsous, legei to them, Why dialogizesthe, that artous not you echete? Not yet you noeite, neither you syniete? Still having been pepōrōmenēn you echete the kardian of you?

Grammar Details

• *gnous*: participle, aorist active nominative singular - having known/perceived
• *Iēsous*: noun, masculine nominative singular - Jesus
• *legei*: verb, present active indicative, 3rd person singular - he says
• *dialogizesthe*: verb, present middle indicative, 2nd person plural - you reason/discuss
• *artous*: noun, masculine accusative plural - loaves/bread
• *echete*: verb, present active indicative, 2nd person plural - you have
• *noeite*: verb, present active indicative, 2nd person plural - you perceive/understand
• *syniete*: verb, present active indicative, 2nd person plural - you comprehend
• *pepōrōmenēn*: participle, perfect passive accusative feminine singular - having been hardened
• *kardian*: noun, feminine accusative singular - heart

Word Meanings

• *gnous*: having known/perceived/understood
• *legei*: says/speaks/tells
• *dialogizesthe*: you reason/discuss/argue
• *artous*: loaves/bread
• *noeite*: you perceive/understand/comprehend
• *syniete*: you comprehend/understand
• *pepōrōmenēn*: having been hardened/calloused/insensitive
• *kardian*: heart/mind/inner self

Referenced Verses

• Mark 6:52 : 52 for they understood not concerning the loaves, but their heart was hardened.
• Mark 16:14 : 14 And afterward he was manifested unto the eleven themselves as they sat at meat; and he upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them that had seen him after he was risen.
• Luke 24:25 : 25 And he said unto them, O foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!
• John 2:24-25 : 24 But {G846} Jesus did not trust himself unto them, for that he knew all men, 25 and because he needed not that any one should bear witness concerning man; for he himself knew what was in man.
• John 16:30 : 30 Now know we that thou knowest all things, and {G2192} needest not that any man should ask thee: by this we believe that thou camest forth from God.
• John 21:17 : 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.
• Heb 4:12-13 : 12 For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and quick to discern the thoughts and intents of the heart. 13 And there is no creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
• Heb 5:11-12 : 11 Of whom we have many things to say, and hard of interpretation, seeing ye are become dull of hearing. 12 For {G1063} when by reason of the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need again that some one teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food.
• Rev 2:23 : 23 And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he that searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto each one of you according to your works.
• Isa 63:17 : 17 O Jehovah, why dost thou make us to err from thy ways, and hardenest our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
• Matt 15:17 : 17 Perceive ye not, that whatsoever goeth into the mouth passeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?
• Matt 16:8-9 : 8 And Jesus perceiving it said, O ye of little faith, why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have no bread? 9 Do ye not yet perceive, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
• Mark 2:8 : 8 And straightway Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, saith unto them, Why reason ye these things in your hearts?
• Mark 3:5 : 5 And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved at the hardening of their heart, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thy hand. And he stretched it forth; and his hand was restored.