Mark 15:29

Authorized King James Version (1611)

And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads, and saying, Ah, thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest [it] in three days,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ οἱ παραπορευόμενοι ἐβλασφήμουν αὐτόν, κινοῦντες τὰς κεφαλὰς αὐτῶν, καὶ λέγοντες, Οὐά, ὁ καταλύων τὸν ναόν, καὶ ἐν τρισὶν ἡμέραις οἰκοδομῶν,

Transliteration

And the paraporeuomenoi eblasphēmoun him, kinountes the kephalas of-them, and legontes, Oua, the one-katalyōn the naon, and in three hēmerais oikodomōn,

Grammar Details

• *paraporeuomenoi*: participle, present, middle, nominative, masculine, plural - passing by
• *eblasphēmoun*: verb, imperfect, active, indicative, 3rd, plural - were blaspheming/reviling
• *kinountes*: participle, present, active, nominative, masculine, plural - shaking/wagging
• *kephalas*: noun, accusative, feminine, plural - heads
• *legontes*: participle, present, active, nominative, masculine, plural - saying
• *Oua*: interjection - Ah/Aha (expression of derision)
• *katalyōn*: participle, present, active, nominative, masculine, singular - destroying
• *naon*: noun, accusative, masculine, singular - temple
• *hēmerais*: noun, dative, feminine, plural - days
• *oikodomōn*: participle, present, active, nominative, masculine, singular - building

Word Meanings

• *paraporeuomenoi*: passing by/going past
• *eblasphēmoun*: were blaspheming/were reviling/were insulting
• *kinountes*: shaking/wagging/nodding
• *legontes*: saying/speaking
• *Oua*: Ah/Aha/Ha (expression of mockery)
• *katalyōn*: destroying/demolishing/taking down
• *naon*: temple/sanctuary
• *oikodomōn*: building/constructing/rebuilding

Referenced Verses

• Ps 109:25 : 25 I became also a reproach unto them: [when] they looked upon me they shaked their heads.
• Mark 14:58 : 58 We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands.
• Lam 1:12 : 12 ¶ [Is it] nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted [me] in the day of his fierce anger.
• Lam 2:15 : 15 All that pass by clap [their] hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, [saying, Is] this the city that [men] call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?
• Matt 26:61 : 61 And said, This [fellow] said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.
• Matt 27:39-40 : 39 And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads, 40 And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest [it] in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross.
• Gen 37:19-20 : 19 And they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer cometh. 20 Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams.
• Ps 22:7-8 : 7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, [saying], 8 He trusted on the LORD [that] he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
• Ps 22:12-14 : 12 Many bulls have compassed me: strong [bulls] of Bashan have beset me round. 13 They gaped upon me [with] their mouths, [as] a ravening and a roaring lion. 14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
• Ps 35:15-21 : 15 But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: [yea], the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew [it] not; they did tear [me], and ceased not: 16 With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth. 17 ¶ Lord, how long wilt thou look on? rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions. 18 I will give thee thanks in the great congregation: I will praise thee among much people. 19 Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: [neither] let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause. 20 For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against [them that are] quiet in the land. 21 Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, [and] said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen [it].
• Ps 69:7 : 7 Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.
• Ps 69:19-20 : 19 Thou hast known my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonour: mine adversaries [are] all before thee. 20 Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked [for some] to take pity, but [there was] none; and for comforters, but I found none.
• Ps 69:26 : 26 For they persecute [him] whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
• John 2:18-22 : 18 Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things? 19 Jesus answered and said unto them, ‹Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.› 20 Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days? 21 But he spake of the temple of his body. 22 When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.