Matthew 24:2

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὁ δὲ Ἰησοῦς εἶπεν αὐτοῖς, Οὐ βλέπετε πάντα ταῦτα; ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν, Οὐ μὴ ἀφεθῇ ὧδε λίθος ἐπὶ λίθον, ὃς οὐ καταλυθήσεται.

Transliteration

But the Iēsous eipen to them, Not blepete all these things? amēn legō to you, Not not aphethē here lithos upon lithon, which not katalythēsetai.

Grammar Details

*Iēsous*: nominative masculine singular - Jesus
*eipen*: aorist active, 3rd person singular - said/spoke
*blepete*: present active, 2nd person plural - you see/perceive
*amēn*: Hebrew transliteration - truly/verily
*legō*: present active, 1st person singular - I say/tell
*aphethē*: aorist passive subjunctive, 3rd person singular - might be left/allowed
*lithos*: nominative masculine singular - stone
*lithon*: accusative masculine singular - stone
*katalythēsetai*: future passive, 3rd person singular - will be thrown down/destroyed

Word Meanings

*eipen*: said/spoke/declared
*blepete*: you see/perceive/observe
*amēn*: truly/verily/certainly
*legō*: I say/tell/speak
*aphethē*: might be left/allowed/permitted to remain
*lithos*: stone/rock
*katalythēsetai*: will be thrown down/destroyed/demolished

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Luke 19:44 : 44 And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.
Dan 9:26-27 : 26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. 27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.
Mic 3:12 : 12 Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.
1 Kgs 9:7-8 : 7 Then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all people: 8 And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?
Jer 26:18 : 18 Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.
Ezek 7:20-22 : 20 As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from them. 21 And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it. 22 My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.
2 Pet 3:11 : 11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,

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