Luke 3:8

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Bryng foorth therefore due fruites of repentaunce, and begyn not to say within your selues, we haue Abraham to our father: For I saye vnto you, that God is able of these stones, to rayse vp childre vnto Abraham.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ποιήσατε οὖν καρποὺς ἀξίους τῆς μετανοίας, καὶ μὴ ἄρξησθε λέγειν ἐν ἑαυτοῖς, Πατέρα ἔχομεν τὸν Ἀβραάμ: λέγω γὰρ ὑμῖν, Ὅτι δύναται ὁ Θεὸς ἐκ τῶν λίθων τούτων ἐγεῖραι τέκνα τῷ Ἀβραάμ.

Transliteration

Poiesate oun karpous axious of-the metanoias, and not arxesthe legein in yourselves, Father echomen the Abraam: I-say gar to-you, That dynatai the Theos from the lithon these egeirai tekna to-the Abraam.

Grammar Details

• *Poiesate*: aorist, active, imperative, 2nd person, plural - produce/make
• *oun*: inferential particle - therefore/then
• *karpous*: accusative, masculine, plural - fruits
• *axious*: accusative, masculine, plural - worthy
• *metanoias*: genitive, feminine, singular - of repentance
• *arxesthe*: aorist, middle, subjunctive, 2nd person, plural - begin
• *legein*: present, active, infinitive - to say
• *echomen*: present, active, indicative, 1st person, plural - we have
• *Abraam*: dative, masculine, singular - to/for Abraham
• *gar*: postpositive particle - for
• *dynatai*: present, middle/passive, indicative, 3rd person, singular - is able
• *Theos*: nominative, masculine, singular - God
• *lithon*: genitive, masculine, plural - of stones
• *egeirai*: aorist, active, infinitive - to raise up
• *tekna*: accusative, neuter, plural - children

Word Meanings

• *Poiesate*: produce/make/bear/do
• *karpous*: fruits/produce/results
• *axious*: worthy/fitting/appropriate
• *metanoias*: repentance/change of mind
• *arxesthe*: begin/start
• *legein*: to say/to speak/to tell
• *dynatai*: is able/can/has power
• *lithon*: stones/rocks
• *egeirai*: to raise up/to awaken/to cause to rise
• *tekna*: children/descendants/offspring

Referenced Verses

• Acts 26:20 : 20 But shewed first vnto them of Damascus, & at Hierusalem, and throughout all the coastes of Iurie, and then to the gentiles, that they shoulde repent, and turne to God, and do such workes as become them that repent.
• John 8:33 : 33 They aunswered hym: We be Abrahams seede, and were neuer bonde to any man: howe sayest thou then, ye shalbe made free?
• Isa 1:16-18 : 16 Washe you, make you cleane, put away your euyll thoughtes out of my syght: ceasse from doyng of euyll, 17 Learne to do well, applie your selues to equitie, deliuer the oppressed, helpe the fatherlesse to his ryght, let the widdowes complaynt come before you: 18 And then go to, saith the Lorde, let vs talke together: though your sinnes be as red as scarlet, they shalbe as whyte as snowe: and though they were lyke purple, they shalbe as whyte as wooll.
• Ezek 18:27-31 : 27 Agayne, when the wicked turneth away from his wickednesse that he hath done, and doth iudgement and right, he shall saue his soule aliue. 28 Because he seeth, and turneth away from all his iniquitie that he hath committed, he shall surely liue, and not dye. 29 And yet saith the house of Israel, the way of the Lorde is not equall. Are my wayes vnequall O ye house of Israel? are not your wayes rather vnequall? 30 Therefore I wyll iudge you, euery man according to his wayes, O ye house of Israel saith the Lorde: returne and bryng your selues agayne from all your wickednesse, so iniquitie shall not be your destruction. 31 Cast away from you all your transgressions wherby ye haue transgressed, and make you a newe heart and a newe spirite: for why wyll ye dye O ye house of Israel?
• Matt 21:43 : 43 Therefore saye I vnto you, the kyngdome of God shalbe taken from you, & geuen to a nation bryngyng foorth the fruites therof.
• Gal 5:22-24 : 22 But the fruite of the spirite is, loue, ioye, peace, long sufferyng, gentlenesse, goodnesse, fayth, 23 Mekenesse, temperauncie: agaynst such there is no lawe. 24 They truely that are Christes, haue crucified the flesshe, with the affections and lustes.
• Rom 4:16 : 16 Therefore by fayth is the inheritaunce geuen that it might come by grace, that the promise myght be sure to all ye seede, not to that only which is of the lawe, but to that also which is of the fayth of Abraham, which is the father of vs al.
• Rom 9:7 : 7 Neither are they all chyldren that are the seede of Abraham: But in Isaac shall thy seede be called.
• 2 Cor 7:10-11 : 10 For godly sorowe, causeth repentaunce vnto saluatio, not to be repented of: but the sorowe of the world causeth death. 11 For beholde this thing, what carefulnesse this godly sorow that ye toke, hath wrought in you: yea what clearing of your selues, yea what indignation, yea what feare, yea what vehemet desire, yea what zeale, yea what punishment. For in all thynges ye haue shewed your selues that ye were cleare in ye matter.
• Gal 3:28-29 : 28 There is no Iewe, neither Greke, there is neither bonde nor free, there is neither male, nor female: For ye are all one in Christe Iesu. 29 If ye be Christes, then are ye Abrahams seede, and heyres accordyng to the promise.
• Phil 1:11 : 11 Beyng fylled with the fruites of righteousnesse, which are by Iesus Christ, vnto the glorie and prayse of God.
• Heb 6:7-8 : 7 For the earth which drynketh in the rayne that commeth oft vppon it, and bringeth foorth hearbes meete for them by whom also it is dressed, receaueth blessyng of God: 8 But that grounde whiche beareth thornes and bryers, is reproued, and is nye vnto cursyng, whose ende is to be burned.
• John 8:39 : 39 They aunswered, and saide vnto him: Abraham is our father. Iesus saith vnto them: Yf ye were Abrahams childre, ye woulde do the workes of Abraham.
• Luke 13:28-29 : 28 There shalbe weepyng & gnasshyng of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Iacob, and all the prophetes, in the kyngdome of God, and ye your selues thrust out. 29 And they shall come from the east and from the west, and from the north, and from the south, and shall syt downe in the kyngdome of God.
• Luke 16:23-31 : 23 And beyng in hell in tormentes, he lyft vp his eyes, and sawe Abraham a farre of, and Lazarus in his bosome, 24 And he cryed and sayde: father Abraham, haue mercie on me, and sende Lazarus that he may dippe the tippe of his fynger in water, and coole my tongue: for I am tormented in this flambe. 25 But Abraham sayde: Sonne, remember that thou in thy lyfe tyme, receauedst thy pleasure, and lykewyse Lazarus paynes: But nowe is he comforted, and thou art tormented. 26 Beyonde all this, betweene vs & you there is a great gulfe set, so that they which woulde go from hence to you, can not, neither may come from thence to vs. 27 Then he sayde: I pray thee therfore father, sende hym to my fathers house. 28 For I haue fyue brethren, that he may witnesse vnto them, lest they also come into this place of torment. 29 Abraham sayde vnto hym: they haue Moyses and the prophetes, let them heare them. 30 And he sayde, nay father Abraham: but yf one come vnto them from the dead, they wyll repent. 31 He sayde vnto hym: If they heare not Moyses & the prophetes, neither wyll they beleue, though one rose from death agayne.
• Luke 19:40 : 40 He saide vnto them: I tell you, that if these holde their peace, then shall the stones crye.
• Matt 8:11-12 : 11 I say vnto you, that many shall come from the east and west, and shall rest with Abraham, and Isaac, & Iacob, in the kyngdome of heauen. 12 But the chyldren of the kyngdome shalbe caste out, into vtter darcknesse: there shalbe wepyng, and gnashyng of teeth.
• Isa 48:1-2 : 1 Heare this O thou house of Iacob, ye that are called by the name of Israel, & are come out of one stocke with Iuda: whiche sweare by the name of the Lorde, and beare witnesse by the God of Israel, but not with trueth and ryght. 2 For they are named of the holy citie, and are grounded vpon the God of Israel, whose name is the Lorde of hoastes.
• Jer 7:4-9 : 4 Trust not in false lying words, saying: Here is the temple of the Lord, here is the temple of the Lord, here is the temple of the Lorde: 5 But rather in deede amende your wayes and counsels, and iudge right betwixt a man and his neighbour, 6 Oppresse not the straunger, the fatherlesse, and the widowe, shed not innocent blood in this place, cleaue not to straunge gods to your owne destruction: 7 Then wyll I let you dwell in this place, yea in the land that I gaue afore tyme to your fathers for euer. 8 But take heede, ye trust in lying tales, that beguile you and do you no good. 9 For when ye haue stollen, murthered, committed adultrie and periurie, when ye haue offered vnto Baal, folowing straunge and vnknowen gods: shall ye be vnpunished? 10 Yet then come ye and stande before me in this house (whiche hath my name geuen vnto it) and say, tushe, we are absolued quite, though we haue done all these abhominations.
• Josh 4:3-8 : 3 And commaunde you them, saying: Take you hence out of the middes of Iordane euen out of the place where the priestes stoode in a redinesse, twelue stones, which ye shall take away with you, and leaue them in the lodgyng where you shall lodge this nyght) 4 Then Iosuah called the twelue men, which he had prepared of the chyldren of Israel, out of euery tribe a man. 5 And Iosuah sayde vnto them: Get you before the arke of the Lorde your God, euen through the middes of Iordane, and take vp euery man of you a stone vpon his shoulder, accordyng vnto the number of the tribes of the chyldren of Israel, 6 That this may be a signe among you: That when your chyldren aske their fathers in tyme to come, saying, What meane these stones with you? 7 Ye maye aunswere them: howe that the waters of Iordane deuided at the presence of the arke of the couenaunt of the Lorde, (For when it went ouer Iordane, the waters of Iordane deuided) And these stones are become a memoriall vnto the chyldren of Israel for euer. 8 And the chyldren of Israel dyd euen so as Iosuah commaunded, and toke vp twelue stones out of the middes of Iordane as the Lorde sayde vnto Iosuah, accordyng to the number of the tribes of the chyldren of Israel, and caryed them away with them vnto the place where they lodged, & layde them downe there.