Matthew 27:63

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said while he was yet alive, After three days I rise again.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Λέγοντες, Κύριε, ἐμνήσθημεν ὅτι ἐκεῖνος ὁ πλάνος εἶπεν, ἔτι ζῶν, Μετὰ τρεῖς ἡμέρας ἐγείρομαι.

Transliteration

Legontes, Kyrie, emnēsthēmen that ekeinos the planos eipen, while zōn, After three hēmeras egeiromai.

Grammar Details

*Legontes*: present active participle, nominative, masculine, plural - saying
*Kyrie*: vocative, masculine, singular - lord/sir/master
*emnēsthēmen*: aorist passive indicative, 1st person plural - we remembered
*ekeinos*: demonstrative pronoun, nominative, masculine, singular - that one
*planos*: nominative, masculine, singular - deceiver/impostor
*eipen*: aorist active indicative, 3rd person singular - said
*zōn*: present active participle, nominative, masculine, singular - living/being alive
*hēmeras*: accusative, feminine, plural - days
*egeiromai*: present passive/middle indicative, 1st person singular - I am raised/I rise

Word Meanings

*Kyrie*: sir/lord/master (term of respect)
*emnēsthēmen*: we remembered/we recalled/we have recalled
*ekeinos*: that one/that person (emphatic)
*planos*: deceiver/impostor/misleader
*zōn*: living/alive/being alive
*egeiromai*: I rise/I am raised/I will rise (present with future meaning)

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Referenced Verses

Matt 16:21 : 21 From that time began Jesus to show unto his disciples, that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.
Luke 9:22 : 22 saying, The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.
Luke 18:33 : 33 and they shall scourge and kill him: and the third day he shall rise again.
Mark 8:31 : 31 And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders, and the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.
Mark 10:34 : 34 and they shall mock him, and shall spit upon him, and shall scourge him, and shall kill him; and after three days he shall rise again.
Matt 17:23 : 23 and they shall kill him, and the third day he shall be raised up. And they were exceeding sorry.
Matt 20:19 : 19 and shall deliver him unto the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify: and the third day he shall be raised up.
Matt 26:61 : 61 and said, This man said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.
Luke 24:6-7 : 6 He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee, 7 saying that the Son of man must be delivered up into the hands of sinful men, and be crucified, and the third day rise again.
John 2:19 : 19 Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
John 7:12 : 12 And there was much murmuring among the multitudes concerning him: some {G3303} said, He is a good man; others {G1161} said, Not so, but he leadeth the multitude astray.
John 7:47 : 47 The Pharisees therefore answered them, Are ye also led astray?
2 Cor 6:8 : 8 by glory and dishonor, by evil report and good report; as deceivers, and [yet] true;
Luke 23:2 : 2 And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this man perverting our nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ a king.

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