Mark 8:33

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

But when he had turned about and looked on his disciples, he rebuked Peter, saying, Get thee behind me, Satan: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but the things that be of men.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὁ δὲ ἐπιστραφείς καὶ ἰδὼν τοὺς μαθητὰς αὐτοῦ, ἐπετίμησεν τῷ Πέτρῳ, λέγων, Ὕπαγε ὀπίσω μου, Σατανᾶ: ὅτι οὐ φρονεῖς τὰ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἀλλὰ τὰ τῶν ἀνθρώπων.

Transliteration

He but having epistrapheis and having idōn the mathētas of him, epetimēsen the Petrō, legōn, Hypage behind me, Satana: for not you phroneis the things of Theou, but the things of anthrōpōn.

Grammar Details

• *epistrapheis*: participle, aorist passive nominative singular - having turned around
• *idōn*: participle, aorist active nominative singular - having seen
• *mathētas*: noun, masculine accusative plural - disciples
• *epetimēsen*: verb, aorist active indicative, 3rd person singular - he rebuked
• *Petrō*: proper noun, masculine dative singular - to Peter
• *legōn*: participle, present active nominative singular - saying
• *Hypage*: verb, present active imperative, 2nd person singular - go away
• *Satana*: noun, masculine vocative singular - Satan
• *phroneis*: verb, present active indicative, 2nd person singular - you think/mind
• *Theou*: noun, masculine genitive singular - of God
• *anthrōpōn*: noun, masculine genitive plural - of men/people

Word Meanings

• *epistrapheis*: having turned around/turned back
• *idōn*: having seen/beheld/looked at
• *mathētas*: disciples/students/followers
• *epetimēsen*: he rebuked/reprimanded
• *legōn*: saying/speaking
• *Hypage*: go away/depart/begone
• *Satana*: Satan/Adversary
• *phroneis*: you think/mind/set your mind on
• *Theou*: of God/deity
• *anthrōpōn*: of men/people/humans

Referenced Verses

• Matt 4:10 : 10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
• Phil 3:19 : 19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)
• 1 John 2:15 : 15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
• Rev 3:19 : 19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
• 1 Tim 5:20 : 20 Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.
• Titus 1:13 : 13 This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;
• Jas 3:15-18 : 15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. 16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. 18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
• 1 Pet 4:1 : 1 Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;
• Gen 3:4-6 : 4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: 5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. 6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
• Lev 19:17 : 17 Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.
• 2 Sam 19:22 : 22 And David said, What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah, that ye should this day be adversaries unto me? shall there any man be put to death this day in Israel? for do not I know that I am this day king over Israel?
• Job 2:10 : 10 But he said unto her, Thou speakest as one of the foolish women speaketh. What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil? In all this did not Job sin with his lips.
• Ps 141:5 : 5 Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.
• Prov 9:8-9 : 8 Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee. 9 Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
• Matt 6:31-32 : 31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? 32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
• Matt 15:23 : 23 But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and besought him, saying, Send her away; for she crieth after us.
• Mark 3:5 : 5 And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it out: and his hand was restored whole as the other.
• Mark 3:34 : 34 And he looked round about on them which sat about him, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren!
• Luke 4:8 : 8 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
• Luke 9:55 : 55 But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of.
• Luke 22:61 : 61 And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.
• Rom 8:5-8 : 5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. 6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. 8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
• 1 Cor 5:5 : 5 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.