Matthew 23:34

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Therefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: some of them shall ye kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

¶Διὰ τοῦτο, ἰδού, ἐγὼ ἀποστέλλω πρὸς ὑμᾶς προφήτας, καὶ σοφοὺς, καὶ γραμματεῖς: καὶ ἐξ αὐτῶν ἀποκτενεῖτε καὶ σταυρώσετε· καὶ ἐξ αὐτῶν μαστιγώσετε ἐν ταῖς συναγωγαῖς ὑμῶν, καὶ διώξετε ἀπὸ πόλεως εἰς πόλιν:

Transliteration

Because-of this, idou, I apostellō pros you prophētas, and sophous, and grammateis: and from them apokteneite and staurōsete; and from them mastigōsete in the synagōgais of-you, and diōxete from poleōs to polin:

Grammar Details

• *Dia touto*: prepositional phrase - because of this/therefore
• *idou*: interjection - behold/look
• *egō*: nominative, singular - I (emphatic, subject)
• *apostellō*: present, active, indicative, 1st person singular - I send
• *pros*: preposition with accusative - to/toward
• *hymas*: accusative, plural - you (direct object)
• *prophētas*: accusative, masculine, plural - prophets
• *sophous*: accusative, masculine, plural - wise ones
• *grammateis*: accusative, masculine, plural - scribes
• *ex autōn*: partitive genitive - some of them
• *apokteneite*: future, active, indicative, 2nd person plural - you will kill
• *staurōsete*: future, active, indicative, 2nd person plural - you will crucify
• *mastigōsete*: future, active, indicative, 2nd person plural - you will flog/whip
• *synagōgais*: dative, feminine, plural - in synagogues
• *hymōn*: genitive, plural - of you
• *diōxete*: future, active, indicative, 2nd person plural - you will persecute
• *apo*: preposition with genitive - from
• *poleōs*: genitive, feminine, singular - city
• *eis*: preposition with accusative - to/into
• *polin*: accusative, feminine, singular - city

Word Meanings

• *idou*: behold/look/see
• *apostellō*: send/send out/commission
• *prophētas*: prophets/those who speak for God
• *sophous*: wise ones/sages/scholars
• *grammateis*: scribes/scholars/teachers of law
• *apokteneite*: will kill/put to death
• *staurōsete*: will crucify/execute on cross
• *mastigōsete*: will flog/whip/scourge
• *synagōgais*: synagogues/assemblies/meeting places
• *diōxete*: will persecute/pursue/chase
• *poleōs*: city/town
• *polin*: city/town

Referenced Verses

• Matt 10:16-17 : 16 Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. 17 But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to councils, and in theirs synagogues they will scourge you;
• Matt 10:23 : 23 But when they persecute you in this city, flee into the next: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone through the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.
• Matt 13:52 : 52 And he said unto them, Therefore every scribe who hath been made a disciple to the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is a householder, who bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.
• Acts 13:1 : 1 Now there were at Antioch, in the church that was [there], {G5100} prophets and teachers, {G5037} Barnabas, and Symeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen the foster-brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
• Acts 14:19 : 19 But there came Jews thither from Antioch and Iconium: and having persuaded the multitudes, {G2532} they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.
• Acts 15:32 : 32 And Judas and Silas, being themselves also prophets, exhorted the brethren with many words, and confirmed them.
• Acts 22:19-20 : 19 And I said, Lord, they themselves know that I {G2252} imprisoned and beat in every synagogue them that believed on thee: 20 and when the blood of Stephen thy witness was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting, and keeping the garments of them that slew him.
• 1 Cor 2:6 : 6 We speak wisdom, however, among them that are fullgrown: yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nought:
• 1 Cor 3:10 : 10 According to the grace of God which was given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder I laid a foundation; and another buildeth thereon. But let each man take heed how he buildeth thereon.
• 1 Cor 12:3-9 : 3 Wherefore I make known unto you, that no man speaking in the Spirit of God saith, Jesus is anathema; and no man can say, Jesus is Lord, but in the Holy Spirit. 4 Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. 5 And there are diversities of ministrations, and the same Lord. 6 And there are diversities of workings, but {G2076} the same God, who worketh all things in all. 7 But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit to profit withal. 8 For to one {G3303} is given through the Spirit the word of wisdom; and to another the word of knowledge, according to the same Spirit: 9 to another faith, in the same Spirit; and to another gifts of healings, in the one Spirit; 10 and to another workings of miracles; and to another prophecy; and to another discernings of spirits; to another [divers] kinds of tongues; and to another the interpretation of tongues: 11 but all these worketh the one and the same Spirit, dividing to each one severally even as he will.
• 2 Cor 11:24-25 : 24 Of the Jews five times received I forty [stripes] save one. 25 Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day have I been in the deep;
• Eph 4:8-9 : 8 Wherefore he saith, When he ascended on high, he led captivity captive, And gave gifts unto men. 9 (Now this, He ascended, what is it {G1487} but that he also descended into the lower parts of the earth? 10 He that descended is the same also that ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.) 11 And he gave some [to be] apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; 12 for the perfecting of the saints, unto the work of ministering, unto the building up of the body of Christ:
• Col 1:28 : 28 whom we proclaim, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ;
• 1 Thess 2:16 : 16 forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved; to fill up their sins always: but the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
• Heb 11:37 : 37 they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tempted, they were slain with the sword: they went about in sheepskins, in {G122} goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated
• Rev 11:10 : 10 And they that dwell on the earth rejoice over them, and make merry; and they shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwell on the earth.
• 2 Chr 36:15-16 : 15 And Jehovah, the God of their fathers, sent to them by his messengers, rising up early and sending, because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling-place: 16 but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of Jehovah arose against his people, till there was no remedy.
• Prov 11:30 : 30 The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; And he that is wise winneth souls.
• Matt 23:34-36 : 34 Therefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: some of them shall ye kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city: 35 that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of Abel the righteous unto the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom ye slew between the sanctuary and the altar. 36 Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.
• Matt 28:19-20 : 19 Go ye therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them into the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit: 20 teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I commanded you: and lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.
• Luke 11:49-51 : 49 Therefore {G5124} also said the wisdom of God, I will send unto them prophets and apostles; and [some] of them they shall kill and persecute; 50 that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation; 51 from the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary: yea, I say unto you, it shall be required of this generation.
• Luke 24:47 : 47 and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name unto all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
• John 16:2 : 2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the hour cometh, that whosoever killeth you shall think that he offereth service unto God.
• John 20:21 : 21 Jesus therefore said to them again, Peace [be] unto you: as the Father hath sent me, even so send I you.
• Acts 1:8 : 8 But ye shall receive power, when the Holy Spirit is come upon you: and ye shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea and Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.
• Acts 5:40 : 40 And to him they agreed: and when they had called the apostles unto them, they beat them and charged them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.
• Acts 7:51-52 : 51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers did, so do ye. 52 Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and they killed them that showed before of the coming of the Righteous One; of whom ye have now become betrayers and murderers;
• Acts 7:58-59 : 58 and they cast him out of the city, and stoned him: and the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul. 59 And they stoned Stephen, calling upon [the Lord], and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
• Acts 9:1-2 : 1 But Saul, yet breathing threatening and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, 2 and asked of him letters to Damascus unto the synagogues, that if he found any that were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.
• Acts 11:27 : 27 Now in these days there came down prophets from Jerusalem unto Antioch.
• Acts 12:2 : 2 And he killed James the brother of John with the sword.