Matthew 16:1

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And the Pharisees and Sadducees came and, testing him, made a request to him to give them a sign from heaven.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

¶Καὶ προσελθόντες οἱ Φαρισαῖοι καὶ Σαδδουκαῖοι, πειράζοντες ἐπηρώτησαν αὐτὸν σημεῖον ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ ἐπιδεῖξαι αὐτοῖς.

Transliteration

And proselthontes the Pharisaioi and Saddoukaioi, peirazontes epērōtēsan him sēmeion from the ouranos epideixai to them.

Grammar Details

• *proselthontes*: aorist active participle, nominative plural masculine - having come/approached
• *Pharisaioi*: nominative plural masculine - Pharisees
• *Saddoukaioi*: nominative plural masculine - Sadducees
• *peirazontes*: present active participle, nominative plural masculine - testing/tempting
• *epērōtēsan*: aorist active indicative, 3rd person plural - they asked/questioned
• *sēmeion*: accusative singular neuter - sign
• *ouranos*: genitive singular masculine - heaven/sky
• *epideixai*: aorist active infinitive - to show/display

Word Meanings

• *peirazontes*: testing/tempting/trying
• *sēmeion*: sign/miracle/proof
• *ouranos*: heaven/sky
• *epideixai*: to show/display/demonstrate

Referenced Verses

• Luke 11:16 : 16 And others, testing him, were looking for a sign from heaven from him.
• Matt 16:6 : 6 And Jesus said to them, Take care to have nothing to do with the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
• Acts 4:1 : 1 And while they were talking to the people, the priests and the captain of the Temple and the Sadducees came up to them,
• John 8:6 : 6 They said this, testing him, so that they might have something against him. But Jesus, with his head bent down, made letters on the floor with his finger.
• 1 Cor 1:22 : 22 Seeing that the Jews make request for signs, and the Greeks are looking for knowledge:
• Acts 5:17 : 17 But the high priest and those who were with him (the Sadducees) were full of envy,
• Acts 23:6-8 : 6 But when Paul saw that half of them were Sadducees and the rest Pharisees, he said in the Sanhedrin, Brothers, I am a Pharisee, and the son of Pharisees: I am here to be judged on the question of the hope of the coming back from the dead. 7 And when he had said this, there was an argument between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and a division in the meeting. 8 For the Sadducees say that there is no coming back from the dead, and no angels or spirits: but the Pharisees have belief in all these.
• Matt 16:11-12 : 11 How is it that you do not see that I was not talking to you about bread, but about keeping away from the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees? 12 Then they saw that it was not the leaven of bread which he had in mind, but the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
• Matt 19:3 : 3 And certain Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, Is it right for a man to put away his wife for every cause?
• Matt 22:15 : 15 Then the Pharisees went and had a meeting to see how they might make use of his words to take him.
• Matt 22:18 : 18 But Jesus saw their trick and said, Oh false ones, why are you attempting to put me in the wrong?
• Matt 22:23 : 23 On the same day there came to him the Sadducees, who say that there is no coming back from the dead: and they put a question to him, saying,
• Matt 22:34-35 : 34 But the Pharisees, hearing how the mouths of the Sadducees had been stopped, came together; 35 And one of them, a teacher of the law, put a question to him, testing him, and saying,
• Matt 23:2 : 2 The scribes and the Pharisees have the authority of Moses;
• Matt 27:62 : 62 Now on the day after the getting ready of the Passover, the chief priests and Pharisees came together to Pilate,
• Mark 8:11-21 : 11 And the Pharisees came out and put questions to him, requesting from him a sign from heaven, testing him. 12 And he was very sad in spirit, and said, Why is this generation looking for a sign? truly, I say to you, No sign will be given to this generation. 13 And he went away from them, and again got into the boat and went across to the other side. 14 And they had taken no thought to get bread; and they had only one cake of bread with them in the boat. 15 And he said to them, Take care to be on the watch against the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod. 16 And they said to one another, We have no bread. 17 And Jesus, hearing it, said to them, Why are you reasoning among yourselves because you have no bread? do you still not see, and is it still not clear to you? are your hearts so hard? 18 Having eyes, do you not see? and having ears, have you no hearing? and have you no memory? 19 When I made a division of the five cakes of bread among the five thousand, what number of baskets full of broken bits did you take up? They said to him, Twelve. 20 And when the seven among the four thousand, what number of baskets full of broken bits did you take up? And they said to him, Seven. 21 And he said to them, Is it still not clear to you?
• Mark 10:2 : 2 And Pharisees came to him, testing him with the question, Is it right for a man to put away his wife?
• Mark 12:15 : 15 Are we to give or not to give? But he, conscious of their false hearts, said to them, Why do you put me to the test? give me a penny, so that I may see it.
• Mark 12:18 : 18 And there came to him Sadducees, who say there is no coming back from the dead; and they put a question to him, saying,
• Luke 10:25 : 25 And a certain teacher of the law got up and put him to the test, saying, Master, what have I to do so that I may have eternal life?
• Luke 11:29-30 : 29 And when a great number of people came together to him, he said, This generation is an evil generation: it is looking for a sign and no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah. 30 For even as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so will the Son of man be to this generation.
• Luke 11:53-54 : 53 And when he had come out of that place, the scribes and the Pharisees came round him angrily, questioning him about more things; 54 And watching him, for a chance to get something from his words which might be used against him.
• Luke 12:54-56 : 54 Then he said to the people, When you see a cloud coming up in the west, straight away you say, There will be rain; and so it is. 55 And when you see a south wind blowing, you say, There will be heat; and so it is. 56 O false ones! the face of the earth and the heaven is clear to you; how is it that the signs of these times are not as clear to you?
• Luke 20:23 : 23 But he saw through their trick and said to them,
• Luke 20:27 : 27 And some of the Sadducees came to him, who say that there is no coming back from the dead; and they said to him,
• John 6:30-31 : 30 So they said, What sign do you give us, so that we may see and have faith in you? What do you do? 31 Our fathers had the manna in the waste land, as the Writings say, He gave them bread from heaven.
• Matt 3:7-8 : 7 But when he saw a number of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, Offspring of snakes, at whose word are you going in flight from the wrath to come? 8 Let your change of heart be seen in your works:
• Matt 5:20 : 20 For I say to you, If your righteousness is not greater than the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never go into the kingdom of heaven.
• Matt 9:11 : 11 And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, Why does your Master take food with tax-farmers and sinners?
• Matt 12:14 : 14 But the Pharisees went out and made designs against him, how they might put him to death.
• Matt 12:38-39 : 38 Then some of the scribes and Pharisees, hearing this, said to him, Master, we are looking for a sign from you. 39 But he, answering, said to them, An evil and false generation is looking for a sign; and no sign will be given to it but the sign of the prophet Jonah:
• Matt 15:1 : 1 Then there came to Jesus from Jerusalem Pharisees and scribes, saying,