Luke 22:16

Authorized King James Version (1611)

‹For I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God.›

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Λέγω γὰρ ὑμῖν, ὅτι οὐκέτι οὐ μὴ φάγω ἐξ αὐτοῦ, ἕως ὅτου πληρωθῇ ἐν τῇ βασιλείᾳ τοῦ Θεοῦ.

Transliteration

I legō gar to you, that ouketi ou mē I phagō from it, until hotou it might be plērōthē in the basileia of Theou.

Grammar Details

• *legō*: present active indicative, 1st singular - I say
• *gar*: postpositive conjunction - for
• *hymin*: dative plural - to you
• *hoti*: conjunction - that
• *ouketi*: adverb - no longer
• *ou mē*: double negative - by no means/certainly not
• *phagō*: aorist active subjunctive, 1st singular - I may eat
• *ex*: preposition with genitive - from/of
• *autou*: genitive neuter singular - it
• *heōs hotou*: conjunction - until
• *plērōthē*: aorist passive subjunctive, 3rd singular - might be fulfilled
• *en*: preposition with dative - in
• *basileia*: dative feminine singular - kingdom
• *Theou*: genitive masculine singular - of God

Word Meanings

• *legō*: I say/tell
• *ouketi ou mē*: never again/certainly no longer
• *phagō*: may eat/consume
• *plērōthē*: might be fulfilled/completed/accomplished
• *basileia*: kingdom/reign/rule

Referenced Verses

• Luke 14:15 : 15 ¶ And when one of them that sat at meat with him heard these things, he said unto him, Blessed [is] he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God.
• Rev 19:9 : 9 And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed [are] they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God.
• Luke 22:30 : 30 ‹That ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.›
• John 6:50-58 : 50 ‹This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.› 51 ‹I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.› 52 The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us [his] flesh to eat? 53 Then Jesus said unto them, ‹Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.› 54 ‹Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.› 55 ‹For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.› 56 ‹He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.› 57 ‹As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.› 58 ‹This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.›
• Acts 10:41 : 41 Not to all the people, but unto witnesses chosen before of God, [even] to us, who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead.
• 1 Cor 5:7-8 : 7 ¶ Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us: 8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened [bread] of sincerity and truth.
• Heb 10:1-9 : 1 ¶ For the law having a shadow of good things to come, [and] not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. 2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. 3 But in those [sacrifices there is] a remembrance again [made] of sins every year. 4 For [it is] not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. 5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: 6 In burnt offerings and [sacrifices] for sin thou hast had no pleasure. 7 ¶ Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. 8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and [offering] for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure [therein]; which are offered by the law; 9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. 10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once [for all].
• John 6:27 : 27 ‹Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.›
• Luke 12:37 : 37 ‹Blessed› [are] ‹those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.›