Matthew 24:2

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

But he answered and said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὁ δὲ Ἰησοῦς εἶπεν αὐτοῖς, Οὐ βλέπετε πάντα ταῦτα; ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν, Οὐ μὴ ἀφεθῇ ὧδε λίθος ἐπὶ λίθον, ὃς οὐ καταλυθήσεται.

Transliteration

But the Iēsous eipen to them, Not blepete all these things? amēn legō to you, Not not aphethē here lithos upon lithon, which not katalythēsetai.

Grammar Details

*Iēsous*: nominative masculine singular - Jesus
*eipen*: aorist active, 3rd person singular - said/spoke
*blepete*: present active, 2nd person plural - you see/perceive
*amēn*: Hebrew transliteration - truly/verily
*legō*: present active, 1st person singular - I say/tell
*aphethē*: aorist passive subjunctive, 3rd person singular - might be left/allowed
*lithos*: nominative masculine singular - stone
*lithon*: accusative masculine singular - stone
*katalythēsetai*: future passive, 3rd person singular - will be thrown down/destroyed

Word Meanings

*eipen*: said/spoke/declared
*blepete*: you see/perceive/observe
*amēn*: truly/verily/certainly
*legō*: I say/tell/speak
*aphethē*: might be left/allowed/permitted to remain
*lithos*: stone/rock
*katalythēsetai*: will be thrown down/destroyed/demolished

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Referenced Verses

Luke 19:44 : 44 and shall dash thee to the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.
Dan 9:26-27 : 26 And after the threescore and two weeks shall the anointed one be cut off, and shall have nothing: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and even unto the end shall be war; desolations are determined. 27 And he shall make a firm covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease; and upon the wing of abominations [shall come] one that maketh desolate; and even unto the full end, and that determined, shall [wrath] be poured out upon the desolate.
Mic 3:12 : 12 Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.
1 Kgs 9:7-8 : 7 then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all peoples. 8 And though this house is so high, yet shall every one that passeth by it be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath Jehovah done thus unto this land, and to this house?
Jer 26:18 : 18 Micah the Morashtite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.
Ezek 7:20-22 : 20 As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty; but they made the images of their abominations [and] their detestable things therein: therefore have I made it unto them as an unclean thing. 21 And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall profane it. 22 My face will I turn also from them, and they shall profane my secret [place]; and robbers shall enter into it, and profane it.
2 Pet 3:11 : 11 Seeing that these things are thus all to be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in [all] holy living and godliness,

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