Luke 9:60

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

{G1161} Jesus said unto him, Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Εἶπεν δὲ αὐτῷ ὁ Ἰησοῦς, Ἄφες τοὺς νεκροὺς θάψαι τοὺς ἑαυτῶν νεκρούς: σὺ δὲ ἀπελθὼν διάγγελλε τὴν βασιλείαν τοῦ Θεοῦ.

Transliteration

Eipen de to-him the Iēsous, Aphes the nekrous thapsai the of-themselves nekrous: you de apelthōn diaggelle the basileian of-the Theou.

Grammar Details

• *Eipen*: aorist active indicative, 3rd singular - said/spoke [completed action]
• *de*: postpositive conjunction - but/and/now
• *Iēsous*: nominative, masculine, singular - Jesus
• *Aphes*: aorist active imperative, 2nd singular - allow/permit/let [command]
• *nekrous*: accusative, masculine, plural - dead [people]
• *thapsai*: aorist active infinitive - to bury
• *heautōn*: genitive, reflexive pronoun - their own/themselves
• *su*: nominative, 2nd singular pronoun - you
• *apelthōn*: aorist active participle, nominative masculine singular - having gone away/departed
• *diaggelle*: present active imperative, 2nd singular - proclaim/announce thoroughly [ongoing command]
• *basileian*: accusative, feminine, singular - kingdom/reign
• *Theou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of God

Word Meanings

• *Aphes*: let/permit/allow/leave
• *nekrous*: dead people/corpses/spiritually dead
• *apelthōn*: having departed/gone away/left
• *diaggelle*: announce thoroughly/proclaim everywhere/declare fully
• *basileian*: kingdom/reign/rule/sovereignty

Referenced Verses

• John 21:15-17 : 15 So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs. 16 He saith to him again the second time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my sheep. 17 He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep.
• 2 Tim 2:3-4 : 3 Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 4 No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
• 2 Tim 4:2 : 2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
• 2 Tim 4:5 : 5 But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.
• Rev 3:1 : 1 And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.
• 1 Cor 9:16 : 16 For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!
• 2 Cor 5:16-18 : 16 Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more. 17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. 18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
• Eph 2:1 : 1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
• Eph 2:5 : 5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ,(by grace ye are saved;)
• 1 Tim 5:6 : 6 But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.
• Luke 15:32 : 32 It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.