Matthew 25:36

Authorized King James Version (1611)

‹Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.›

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Γυμνός, καὶ περιεβάλετέ με: ἠσθένησα, καὶ ἐπεσκέψασθέ με: ἐν φυλακῇ ἤμην, καὶ ἤλθετε πρός με.

Transliteration

Gymnos, and periebalete me: ēsthenēsa, and epeskepsasthe me: in phylakē I ēmēn, and ēlthete to me.

Grammar Details

• *gymnos*: nominative masculine singular - naked
• *periebalete*: aorist active indicative, 2nd person plural - you clothed
• *ēsthenēsa*: aorist active indicative, 1st person singular - I was sick
• *epeskepsasthe*: aorist middle indicative, 2nd person plural - you visited
• *phylakē*: dative feminine singular - prison
• *ēmēn*: imperfect active indicative, 1st person singular - I was
• *ēlthete*: aorist active indicative, 2nd person plural - you came

Word Meanings

• *gymnos*: naked/without clothing/bare
• *periebalete*: you clothed/dressed/covered
• *ēsthenēsa*: I was sick/ill/weak
• *epeskepsasthe*: you visited/looked after/cared for
• *phylakē*: prison/jail/custody
• *ēmēn*: I was [continuous state]
• *ēlthete*: you came/visited

Referenced Verses

• Jas 1:27 : 27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the world.
• Heb 13:3 : 3 Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; [and] them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.
• Jas 5:14-15 : 14 Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: 15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
• Heb 10:34 : 34 For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.
• Jas 2:14-16 : 14 ¶ What [doth it] profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, 16 And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be [ye] warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what [doth it] profit?
• Job 31:19-20 : 19 If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering; 20 If his loins have not blessed me, and [if] he were [not] warmed with the fleece of my sheep;
• Isa 58:7 : 7 [Is it] not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
• Ezek 18:7 : 7 And hath not oppressed any, [but] hath restored to the debtor his pledge, hath spoiled none by violence, hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment;
• Ezek 34:4 : 4 The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up [that which was] broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.
• Matt 25:43 : 43 ‹I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not.›
• Luke 3:11 : 11 He answereth and saith unto them, He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise.
• Acts 20:35 : 35 I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, ‹It is more blessed to give than to receive.›
• Acts 28:8-9 : 8 And it came to pass, that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever and of a bloody flux: to whom Paul entered in, and prayed, and laid his hands on him, and healed him. 9 So when this was done, others also, which had diseases in the island, came, and were healed:
• Phil 4:10-14 : 10 ¶ But I rejoiced in the Lord greatly, that now at the last your care of me hath flourished again; wherein ye were also careful, but ye lacked opportunity. 11 Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, [therewith] to be content. 12 I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. 13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. 14 Notwithstanding ye have well done, that ye did communicate with my affliction.
• 2 Tim 1:16-18 : 16 The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus; for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain: 17 But, when he was in Rome, he sought me out very diligently, and found [me]. 18 The Lord grant unto him that he may find mercy of the Lord in that day: and in how many things he ministered unto me at Ephesus, thou knowest very well.