Luke 18:16

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Suffer little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὁ δὲ Ἰησοῦς προσκαλεσάμενος αὐτὰ, εἶπεν, Ἄφετε τὰ παιδία ἔρχεσθαι πρός με, καὶ μὴ κωλύετε αὐτά: τῶν γὰρ τοιούτων ἐστὶν ἡ βασιλεία τοῦ Θεοῦ.

Transliteration

The de Iēsous proskalesamenos them, eipen, Aphete the paidia erchesthai pros me, and not kōlyete them: of-the for such estin the basileia of-the Theou.

Grammar Details

• *de*: conjunction, adversative/transitional - but/and
• *Iēsous*: nominative masculine singular - Jesus
• *proskalesamenos*: aorist middle participle, nominative masculine singular - having called to
• *eipen*: aorist active indicative, 3rd person singular - said
• *Aphete*: aorist active imperative, 2nd person plural - allow/permit
• *paidia*: accusative neuter plural - children
• *erchesthai*: present middle/passive infinitive - to come
• *pros*: preposition + accusative - to/toward
• *kōlyete*: present active imperative, 2nd person plural - hinder/prevent/forbid
• *estin*: present active indicative, 3rd person singular - is
• *basileia*: nominative feminine singular - kingdom
• *Theou*: genitive masculine singular - of God

Word Meanings

• *proskalesamenos*: having called to/summoned/called near
• *Aphete*: allow/permit/let
• *paidia*: children/little ones
• *erchesthai*: to come/be coming
• *kōlyete*: hinder/prevent/forbid
• *basileia*: kingdom/reign/rule

Referenced Verses

• Deut 31:12 : 12 Gather the people together, men, and women, and children, and thy stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of this law:
• Acts 2:39 : 39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
• 1 Cor 14:20 : 20 Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.
• 1 Pet 2:2 : 2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
• 1 Cor 7:14 : 14 For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.
• Gen 21:4 : 4 And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him.
• Gen 47:10-14 : 10 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh. 11 And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded. 12 And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to their families. 13 And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine. 14 And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.
• Deut 29:11 : 11 Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:
• 2 Chr 20:13 : 13 And all Judah stood before the LORD, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.
• Jer 32:39 : 39 And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:
• Matt 18:3-4 : 3 And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. 4 Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.