Matthew 25:36

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

naked, and ye clothed me; I was sick, and ye visited me; I was in prison, and ye came unto me.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Γυμνός, καὶ περιεβάλετέ με: ἠσθένησα, καὶ ἐπεσκέψασθέ με: ἐν φυλακῇ ἤμην, καὶ ἤλθετε πρός με.

Transliteration

Gymnos, and periebalete me: ēsthenēsa, and epeskepsasthe me: in phylakē I ēmēn, and ēlthete to me.

Grammar Details

• *gymnos*: nominative masculine singular - naked
• *periebalete*: aorist active indicative, 2nd person plural - you clothed
• *ēsthenēsa*: aorist active indicative, 1st person singular - I was sick
• *epeskepsasthe*: aorist middle indicative, 2nd person plural - you visited
• *phylakē*: dative feminine singular - prison
• *ēmēn*: imperfect active indicative, 1st person singular - I was
• *ēlthete*: aorist active indicative, 2nd person plural - you came

Word Meanings

• *gymnos*: naked/without clothing/bare
• *periebalete*: you clothed/dressed/covered
• *ēsthenēsa*: I was sick/ill/weak
• *epeskepsasthe*: you visited/looked after/cared for
• *phylakē*: prison/jail/custody
• *ēmēn*: I was [continuous state]
• *ēlthete*: you came/visited

Referenced Verses

• Jas 1:27 : 27 Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
• Heb 13:3 : 3 Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; them that are ill-treated, as being yourselves also in the body.
• Jas 5:14-15 : 14 Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: 15 and the prayer of faith shall save him that is sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, it shall be forgiven him.
• Heb 10:34 : 34 For ye both had compassion on them that were in bonds, and took {G3326} joyfully the spoiling of your possessions, knowing that ye have for yourselves {G1722} {G3772} a better possession and an abiding one.
• Jas 2:14-16 : 14 What doth it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but have not works? can that faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister be naked and in lack of daily food, 16 and one of you say unto them, Go in peace, be ye warmed and filled; and yet ye give them not the things needful to the body; what doth it profit?
• Job 31:19-20 : 19 If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, Or that the needy had no covering; 20 If his loins have not blessed me, And if he hath not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
• Isa 58:7 : 7 Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
• Ezek 18:7 : 7 and hath not wronged any, but hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath taken nought by robbery, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment;
• Ezek 34:4 : 4 The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought back that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with rigor have ye ruled over them.
• Matt 25:43 : 43 I was a stranger, and ye took me not in; naked, and ye clothed me not; sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.
• Luke 3:11 : 11 And he answered and said unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath food, let him do likewise.
• Acts 20:35 : 35 In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring ye ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
• Acts 28:8-9 : 8 And it was so, that the father of Publius lay sick of fever and dysentery: unto whom Paul entered in, and prayed, and laying his hands on him healed him. 9 And when this was done, the rest also that had diseases in the island came, and were cured:
• Phil 4:10-14 : 10 But I rejoice in the Lord greatly, that now at length ye have revived your thought for me; wherein {G1909} ye did indeed take thought, but ye lacked opportunity. 11 Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therein to be content. 12 I know {G2532} how to be abased, and I know also how to abound: in everything and in all things have I learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in want. 13 I can do all things in him that strengtheneth me. 14 Howbeit ye {G4160} did well that ye had fellowship with my affliction.
• 2 Tim 1:16-18 : 16 The Lord grant mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus: for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain; 17 but, when he was in Rome, he sought me diligently, and found me 18 (the Lord grant unto him to find mercy of the Lord in that day); and in how many things he ministered at Ephesus, thou knowest very well.