Matthew 25:44

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Τότε ἀποκριθήσονται αὐτῷ καὶ αὐτοί, λέγοντες, Κύριε, πότε σὲ εἴδομεν πεινῶντα, ἢ διψῶντα, ἢ ξένον, ἢ γυμνόν, ἢ ἀσθενῆ, ἢ ἐν φυλακῇ, καὶ οὐ διηκονήσαμέν σοι;

Transliteration

Then apokrithēsontai to him also they, legontes, Kyrie, when you eidomen peinōnta, or dipsōnta, or xenon, or gymnon, or asthenē, or in phylakē, and not diēkonēsamen to you?

Grammar Details

*apokrithēsontai*: future passive indicative, 3rd person plural - will answer
*legontes*: present active participle, nominative masculine plural - saying
*kyrie*: vocative masculine singular - lord
*eidomen*: aorist active indicative, 1st person plural - we saw
*peinōnta*: present active participle, accusative masculine singular - hungering
*dipsōnta*: present active participle, accusative masculine singular - thirsting
*xenon*: accusative masculine singular - stranger
*gymnon*: accusative masculine singular - naked
*asthenē*: accusative masculine singular - sick/ill
*phylakē*: dative feminine singular - prison
*diēkonēsamen*: aorist active indicative, 1st person plural - we served

Word Meanings

*apokrithēsontai*: will answer/reply/respond
*legontes*: saying/speaking/declaring
*kyrie*: lord/master/sir
*eidomen*: we saw/observed/perceived
*peinōnta*: hungering/being hungry
*dipsōnta*: thirsting/being thirsty
*xenon*: stranger/foreigner/guest
*gymnon*: naked/without clothing/bare
*asthenē*: sick/ill/weak
*phylakē*: prison/jail/custody
*diēkonēsamen*: we served/ministered to/attended to

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

1 Sam 15:13-15 : 13 And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said unto him, Blessed be thou of the LORD: I have performed the commandment of the LORD. 14 And Samuel said, What meaneth then this bleating of the sheep in mine ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear? 15 And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.
1 Sam 15:20-21 : 20 And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of the LORD, and have gone the way which the LORD sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites. 21 But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God in Gilgal.
Jer 2:23 : 23 How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways;
Jer 2:35 : 35 Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.
Mal 1:6 : 6 A son honoureth his father, and a servant his master: if then I be a father, where is mine honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear? saith the LORD of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?
Mal 2:17 : 17 Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?
Mal 3:13 : 13 Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?
Matt 7:22 : 22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
Matt 25:24-27 : 24 Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed: 25 And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou hast that is thine. 26 {G1161} His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed: 27 Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.
Luke 10:29 : 29 But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbour?

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