Matthew 26:63

Bishops' Bible (1568)

But Iesus helde his peace. And the chiefe priest aunswered, and sayde vnto hym: I charge thee by the liuing God, that thou tel vs, whether thou be Christ the sonne of God?

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὁ δὲ Ἰησοῦς ἐσιώπα. Καὶ ἀποκριθεὶς ὁ ἀρχιερεὺς εἶπεν αὐτῷ, Ἐξορκίζω σε κατὰ τοῦ Θεοῦ τοῦ ζῶντος, ἵνα ἡμῖν εἴπῃς εἰ σὺ εἶ ὁ Χριστός, ὁ Υἱὸς τοῦ Θεοῦ.

Transliteration

The de Iēsous esiōpa. And apokritheis the archiereus eipen to him, Exorkizō you kata the Theou the zōntos, hina to us eipēs if you are the Christos, the Huios of the Theou.

Grammar Details

• *de*: postpositive conjunction - but/and
• *Iēsous*: nominative masculine singular - Jesus
• *esiōpa*: imperfect active indicative, 3rd person singular - was silent
• *apokritheis*: aorist passive participle, nominative masculine singular - having answered
• *archiereus*: nominative masculine singular - high priest
• *eipen*: aorist active indicative, 3rd person singular - said
• *Exorkizō*: present active indicative, 1st person singular - I put under oath
• *kata*: preposition + genitive - by
• *Theou*: genitive masculine singular - of God
• *zōntos*: present active participle, genitive masculine singular - living
• *hina*: subordinating conjunction - that
• *eipēs*: aorist active subjunctive, 2nd person singular - you might tell
• *Christos*: nominative masculine singular - Christ/Messiah/Anointed One
• *Huios*: nominative masculine singular - Son

Word Meanings

• *esiōpa*: was silent/kept silent (continuous action)
• *apokritheis*: answering/responding
• *Exorkizō*: I adjure/I put under oath
• *zōntos*: living/alive
• *eipēs*: tell/say
• *Christos*: Messiah/Anointed One/Christ

Referenced Verses

• Lev 5:1 : 1 If a soule sinne, and heare the voyce of swearing, and is a witnesse, whether he hath seene or knowen of it, if he do not vtter it, he shall beare his sinne.
• Matt 16:16 : 16 Simon Peter aunswered and sayde: Thou art Christe, the sonne of the lyuyng God.
• Matt 27:12 : 12 And when he was accused of the chiefe priestes and elders, he aunswered nothyng.
• Matt 27:14 : 14 And he aunswered hym to neuer a worde: insomuch, that the deputie marueyled greatly.
• 1 Sam 14:26 : 26 And the people came into the wood: And behold, the honie dropped, and no man moued his hand to his mouth: for the people feared the oth.
• Isa 53:7 : 7 He suffered violence, and was euyll intreated, and dyd not open his mouth: He shalbe led as a sheepe to be slayne, yet shall he be as styll as a lambe before the shearer, and not open his mouth.
• John 10:24 : 24 Then came the Iewes rounde about hym, and sayde vnto hym: Howe long doest thou make vs doubt? Yf thou be Christe, tell vs playnely.
• John 10:30 : 30 I and my father are one.
• John 10:36 : 36 Say ye of hym whom the father hath sanctified and sent into the worlde, thou blasphemest, because I saide I am the sonne of God?
• John 18:37 : 37 Pilate therfore sayde vnto hym: Art thou a kyng then? Iesus aunswered: Thou sayest that I am a king. For this cause am I borne, & for this cause came I into the worlde, that I should beare witnesse vnto the trueth: And all that are of the trueth, heare my voyce.
• John 19:7 : 7 The Iewes aunswered hym: We haue a lawe, and by our lawe he ought to dye, because he made hym selfe the sonne of God.
• John 19:9 : 9 And went agayne into the iudgement hall, and sayth vnto Iesus, whence art thou? But Iesus gaue hym none aunswere.
• John 20:31 : 31 These are written, that ye myght beleue that Iesus is Christe the sonne of God, and that in beleuyng, ye myght haue lyfe through his name.
• Acts 8:32-35 : 32 The tenour of the scripture which he read, was this: He was ledde as a sheepe to the slaughter, & lyke a lambe dumbe before his shearer, so opened he not his mouth. 33 In his humilitie, his iudgement is exalted: But who shall declare his generation? For his lyfe is taken from the earth. 34 And the Eunuche aunswered Philip, and sayde: I pray thee of whom speaketh the prophete this? Of hym selfe, or of some other man? 35 Then Philip opened his mouth, and began at the same scripture, and preached vnto hym Iesus.
• 1 Pet 2:23 : 23 Whiche when he was reuiled, reuiled not agayne: when he suffred, he threatned not, but committed the vengeaunce to him that iudgeth righteously.
• 1 John 5:11-13 : 11 And this is the recorde, how that God hath geuen vnto vs eternall lyfe, and this lyfe, is in his sonne. 12 He that hath the sonne, hath lyfe: and he that hath not the sonne of God, hath not lyfe. 13 These thynges haue I written vnto you that beleue on ye name of the sonne of God, that ye may knowe howe that ye haue eternall lyfe, and that ye may beleue on the name of the sonne of God.
• Dan 3:16 : 16 Sidrach, Misach, and Abednego aunswered the king, and sayd: O Nabuchodonozor, we are not carefull to aunswere thee in this matter:
• Num 5:19-21 : 19 And the priest shall charge her by an othe, and say vnto the woman: If no man haue lyen with thee, neither hast gone aside to vncleannesse without thy husbande, then haue thou no harme of this bitter and cursed waters. 20 But and if thou hast gone aside from thyne husbande, and art defiled, and some man hath lyen with thee beside thyne husbande: 21 (Then ye priest shal charge the woman with an othe of cursing, & the priest shall say vnto the woman) the Lorde make thee accursed and detestable for the othe among the people, when the Lord doth make thy thigh to rot, & thy belly swell.
• 1 Sam 14:24 : 24 And when the men of Israel were kepte downe with hunger that day, Saul charged the people with an oth, saying: Cursed be the man that eateth any foode vntill night, till I be auenged of myne enemies. And so none of the people tasted any sustenaunce.
• Matt 26:63-66 : 63 But Iesus helde his peace. And the chiefe priest aunswered, and sayde vnto hym: I charge thee by the liuing God, that thou tel vs, whether thou be Christ the sonne of God? 64 Iesus saith vnto him: thou hast said. Neuerthelesse, I saye vnto you, hereafter shall ye see the sonne of man sitting on the ryght hande of power, and commyng in the cloudes of the skye. 65 Then the hye priest rent his clothes, saying: He hath spoken blasphemie, what nede we of any mo witnesses? Beholde, now ye haue hearde his blasphemie, 66 What thynke ye? They aunswered and sayde: he is worthy to dye.
• 1 Sam 14:28 : 28 Then aunswered one of the people, and sayde: Thy father made the people to sweare, saying: Cursed be the ma that eateth any sustenaunce this day. And the people were faynt.
• 1 Kgs 22:16 : 16 And the king sayde vnto him: So and so many times do I charge thee that thou tell me nothing but that whiche is true, in the name of the Lorde.
• 2 Chr 18:15 : 15 And the king sayde to him: So and so many times do I charge thee that thou say nothing but the trueth to me in the name of the Lorde.
• Ps 2:6-7 : 6 Saying euen I haue annointed him my kyng: vpon my holy hyll of Sion. 7 I wyll declare the decree, God sayde vnto me: thou art my sonne, this day I haue begotten thee.
• Ps 38:12-14 : 12 They also that sought after my lyfe layde snares for me: and they that went about to do me euyll, talked of wickednesse, and imagined deceipt all the day long. 13 As for me, as one deafe I woulde not heare: and I was as one that is dumbe who coulde not open his mouth. 14 I became euen as a man that heareth not: and who hath no replies in his mouth.
• Prov 29:24 : 24 Who so is partner with a thiefe, hateth his owne soule: he heareth blasphemie and telleth it not foorth.
• Isa 9:6-7 : 6 For vnto vs a chylde is borne, and vnto vs a sonne is geuen, vpon his shoulder doth the rule lye, and he is called with his owne name wonderfull, the geuer of counsell, the mightie God, the euerlasting father, the prince of peace. 7 He shall make no ende to encrease the rule & peace, and shall sit vpon the seate of Dauid, and in his kingdome, to order the same, and to stablishe it with equitie and righteousnesse from hence foorth for euermore: This shall the zeale of the Lorde of hoastes bring to passe.
• Matt 27:40 : 40 And saying: Thou that destroyedst the temple, & buyldest it in three dayes, saue thy selfe. If thou be the sonne of God, come downe from the crosse.
• Matt 27:43 : 43 He trusted in God, let hym delyuer hym nowe, yf he wyll haue hym: for he sayde, I am the sonne of God.
• Matt 27:54 : 54 When the Centurion, and they that were with hym watchyng Iesus, sawe the earthquake, and those thynges that were done, they feared greatly, saying: truely, this was the sonne of God.
• Mark 14:61 : 61 But he helde his peace, & aunswered nothyng. Agayne, the hyest priest asked hym, and sayde vnto hym: Art thou Christe, the sonne of the blessed?
• Luke 22:66-71 : 66 And assoone as it was day, the elders of the people, and the hye priestes, and scribes, came together, and led hym into their counsell, saying: 67 Art thou very Christe, tell vs? And he sayde vnto them: If I tell you, you wyll not beleue: 68 And if I aske you, you wyll not aunswere me, nor let me go. 69 Hereafter shall the sonne of man sit on the right hand of the power of God. 70 Then said they all: Art thou then the sonne of God? He sayde: Ye say yt I am. 71 And they sayd? What neede we any further witnesse? For we our selues haue hearde of his owne mouth.
• John 1:34 : 34 And I sawe, and bare recorde, that he is the sonne of God.
• John 1:49 : 49 Nathanael aunswered, and sayde vnto hym: Rabbi, thou art euen the very sonne of God, thou art ye kyng of Israel.
• John 3:16-18 : 16 For God so loued the worlde, that he gaue his only begotten sonne, that whosoeuer beleueth in hym, shoulde not perishe, but haue euerlastyng lyfe. 17 For God sent not his sonne into the worlde, to condempne the worlde: but that the worlde through hym myght be saued. He that beleueth on hym, is not condempned: 18 But he that beleueth not, is condempned alredy, because he hath not beleued in the name of the only begotte sonne of God.
• John 5:18-25 : 18 Therfore the Iewes sought the more to kyll him, not only because he had broken the Sabboth, but sayde also, that God was his father, and made himselfe equall with God. 19 Then aunswered Iesus, & sayde vnto them: Ueryly veryly I say vnto you, the sonne can do nothyng of hym selfe, but that he seeth ye father do: For whatsoeuer he doeth, that doeth the sonne also. 20 For the father loueth the sonne, and sheweth hym all thynges that he hym selfe doeth: And he wyll shewe hym greater workes then these, because ye shoulde marueyle. 21 For lykewyse as the father rayseth vp the dead, and quickeneth them: euen so, the sonne quickeneth whom he wyll. 22 Neither iudgeth the father any man: but hath committed all iudgement vnto the sonne, 23 Because that all men shoulde honour the sonne, euen as they honour the father. He that honoureth not the sonne, the same honoureth not ye father which hath sent hym. 24 Ueryly veryly I say vnto you, he that heareth my worde, and beleueth on him that sent me, hath euerlastyng lyfe, and shall not come into dampnation, but is escaped from death vnto lyfe. 25 Ueryly veryly I saye vnto you, the houre shall come, and nowe is, when the dead shall heare the voyce of the sonne of God: And they that heare, shall lyue.
• John 6:69 : 69 And we beleue and are sure that thou art Christe, the sonne of ye lyuyng God.
• John 8:25 : 25 Then sayde they vnto hym: Who art thou? And Iesus saith vnto them: Euen the very same thyng that I sayde vnto you from the begynnyng.