Luke 18:24

Coverdale Bible (1535)

Whan Iesus sawe that he was sory, he sayde: How hardly shal the riche come in to the kyngdome of God?

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἰδὼν δὲ αὐτὸν ὁ Ἰησοῦς περίλυπον γενόμενον, εἶπεν, Πῶς δυσκόλως οἱ τὰ χρήματα ἔχοντες εἰσελεύσονται εἰς τὴν βασιλείαν τοῦ Θεοῦ!

Transliteration

Idōn de him the Iēsous perilypon genomenon, eipen, How dyskolōs the ones the chrēmata echontes eiseleusontai into the basileian of-the Theou!

Grammar Details

• *Idōn*: aorist active participle, nominative masculine singular - having seen
• *de*: conjunction, adversative/transitional - but/and
• *Iēsous*: nominative masculine singular - Jesus
• *perilypon*: accusative masculine singular - very sorrowful
• *genomenon*: aorist middle participle, accusative masculine singular - having become
• *eipen*: aorist active indicative, 3rd person singular - said
• *dyskolōs*: adverb - with difficulty
• *chrēmata*: accusative neuter plural - riches/money
• *echontes*: present active participle, nominative masculine plural - having
• *eiseleusontai*: future middle indicative, 3rd person plural - will enter
• *basileian*: accusative feminine singular - kingdom
• *Theou*: genitive masculine singular - of God

Word Meanings

• *Idōn*: having seen/when he saw
• *perilypon*: very sorrowful/deeply grieved
• *genomenon*: having become/became
• *dyskolōs*: with difficulty/hardly
• *chrēmata*: riches/money/wealth
• *echontes*: having/possessing
• *eiseleusontai*: will enter/will go in
• *basileian*: kingdom/reign/rule

Referenced Verses

• Prov 11:28 : 28 He that trusteth in his riches, shal haue a fall, but ye rightuous shal florish as the grene leaf.
• Prov 18:11 : 11 But ye rich mas goodes are his stronge holde, yee he taketh them for an hye wall roude aboute him.
• Prov 30:9 : 9 Lest yf I be to full, I denye ye, & saye: what felowe is ye LORDE? And lest I beinge constrayned thorow pouerte, fall vnto stealinge, and forsweare the name of my God.
• Jer 2:31 : 31 Yf ye be the people of the LORDE, then herke vnto his worde: Am I the become a wildernesse vnto the people of Israel? or a londe that hath no light? Wherfore saieth my people then: we are falle of, and we wil come no more vnto the?
• Jer 5:5 : 5 Therfore will I go vnto their heades and rulers, and talke with them: yf they knowe the waye of the LORDE, and the iudgmetes of oure God. But these (in like maner) haue broken the yock, and bursten the bondes in sonder.
• Matt 19:23-25 : 23 Iesus sayde vnto his disciples: Verely I saie vnto you: it shalbe harde for a rich man to entre in to the kyngdome of heaue. 24 And morouer I saye vnto you: It is easier for a Camell to go thorow the eye of a nedle, the for a rich man to entre in to the kyngdome of heauen. 25 Whan his disciples herde that, they were exceadingly amased, and sayde: Who can the be saued?
• Mark 6:26 : 26 Then the kynge was sory: Yet for the oothes sake and the that sat at the table, he wolde not saye her nay.
• Mark 10:23-27 : 23 And Iesus loked aboute him, and sayde vnto his disciples: O how hardly shal the ryche come into ye kyngdome of God? 24 And the disciples were astonnyed at his wordes. But Iesus answered agayne, and sayde vnto them: Deare children, how harde is it for them that trust in riches, to come into the kyngdome of God? 25 It is easier for a Camell to go thorow the eye of a nedle, then for a rich man to entre in to ye kyngdome of God. 26 Yet were they astonnyed ye more, and sayde amonge the selues: Who can the be saued? 27 But Iesus behelde them, and sayde: With men it is vnpossyble, but not with God: for with God all thinges are possyble.
• 1 Cor 1:26-27 : 26 Brethren loke on youre callinge, how that not many wyseme after the flesh, not many mightie, not many of hye degre are called: 27 but that foolish is before the worlde, hath God chosen, that he mighte cofounde the wyse: And that weake is before ye worlde, hath God chosen, yt he mighte confounde the mightye.
• 2 Cor 7:9-9 : 9 But now I reioyce, not that ye were sory, but that ye were sory to repentaunce. For ye sorowed godly, so that in nothinge ye were hurte by vs. 10 For godly sorowe causeth repentaunce vnto saluacion, not to be repented of: but worldly sorowe causeth death.
• 1 Tim 6:9-9 : 9 For they that wylbe riche, fall in to the teptacion and snare, and in to many folisshe & noysome lustes, which drowne men in destruccion and damnacion. 10 For Couetousnes is the rote of all euell, which whyle some lusted after, they erred from the faith, and tangled them selues with many sorowes.
• Jas 2:5-7 : 5 Harken my deare beloued brethre. Hath not God chosen the poore of this worlde, which are ryche in faith, and heyres of the kyngdom which he promysed to the that loue him? 6 But ye haue despised the poore. Are not the rych they which oppresse you: & they which drawe you before iudges? 7 Do not they speake euell of that good name after which ye be named.
• Jas 5:1-6 : 1 Goo to now ye riche men. Wepe, and howle on yor wretchednes that shal come vpon you. 2 Youre riches is corrupte, youre garmetes are motheaten. 3 Youre golde & yor siluer are cancred, & the rust of them shalbe a witnes vnto you, & shal eate youre flesshe, as it were fyre. Ye haue heaped treasure togedder in yor last dayes: 4 Beholde, the hyre of the labourers which haue reped downe youre feldes (which hyer is of you kept backe by fraude) cryeth: and the cryes of the which haue reped, are entred in to the eares of the LORDE Sabaoth. 5 Ye haue liued in pleasure on the earth and in wantannes. Ye haue norysshed youre hertes, as in a daye of slaughter. 6 Ye haue codempned and haue killed the iust, and he hath not resisted you.
• Deut 6:10-12 : 10 Now whan ye LORDE yi God shal bringe the in to ye londe wherof he sware vnto yi fathers Abraham, Isaac, & Iacob, and shal geue the greate & goodly cities, which thou hast not buylded: 11 and houses full of all goodes, which thou hast not filled: & digged welles which thou hast not digged: and vynyardes and olyue trees, which thou hast not plated, so yt thou eatest and art full: 12 then bewarre that thou forget not the LORDE, which brought the out of the londe of Egipte, fro the house of bondage:
• Deut 8:11-17 : 11 Bewarre now therfore, that thou forget not the LORDE thy God, that thou woldest not kepe his commaundementes, and his ordinaunces, and lawes, which I commaunde the this daye: 12 that (whan thou hast eaten & art fylled, and hast buylded goodly houses, & dwellest therin, 13 and whan thy beestes and shepe, and syluer, and golde, and all yt thou hast, increaseth) 14 thine hert ryse not then, and thou forget the LORDE thy God (which brought the out of the londe of Egipte, fro ye house of bondage, 15 and led ye thorow this greate & terrible wyldernes, where were serpentes that spouted fyre, and Scorpions, & drouth, and where there was no water, and brought the water out of the hard flynte, 16 and fed the in the wyldernesse with Manna wherof yi fathers knewe not, that he might chasten the, and proue the) to do the good afterwarde) 17 and lest thou saye in thine hert: My power and the mighte of myne awne hande hath done me all this good:
• Ps 10:3 : 3 For the vngodly maketh boost of his owne hertes desyre, the cuvetous blesseth him self, and blasphemeth the LORDE.
• Ps 73:5-9 : 5 They come in no misfortune like other folke, nether are they plaged like other men. 6 And this is the cause that they be so puft vp in pryde, & ouerwhelmed with cruelte and vnrigthuousnesse. 7 Their eyes swell for fatnesse, they do euen what they lyst. 8 Corrupte are they, and speake blasphemies maliciously, proude and presumptuous are their wordes. 9 They stretch forth their mouth vnto the heauen, & their tonge goeth thorow the worlde. 10 Therfore fall the people vnto them, and there out sucke they no small auauntage. 11 Tush (saye they) how shulde God perceaue it? is there knowlege in the most hyest? 12 Lo, these are the vngodly, these prospere in the worlde, these haue riches in possession.