Matthew 19:30

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

But many who are first will be last, and the last first.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Πολλοὶ δὲ ἔσονται πρῶτοι ἔσχατοι· καὶ ἔσχατοι πρῶτοι.

Transliteration

Many de esontai prōtoi eschatoi; and eschatoi prōtoi.

Grammar Details

• *de*: postpositive particle - but/and
• *esontai*: future, 3rd plural, middle - will be
• *prōtoi*: nominative, masculine, plural - first
• *eschatoi*: nominative, masculine, plural - last

Word Meanings

• *prōtoi eschatoi*: first will be last
• *eschatoi prōtoi*: last will be first

Referenced Verses

• Luke 13:30 : 30 But indeed, some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last.”
• Matt 20:16 : 16 So the last will be first, and the first last.”
• Mark 10:31 : 31 But many who are first will be last, and the last first.”
• Matt 21:31-32 : 31 Which of the two did his father’s will?” They said,“The first.” Jesus said to them,“I tell you the truth, tax collectors and prostitutes will go ahead of you into the kingdom of God! 32 For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him. But the tax collectors and prostitutes did believe. Although you saw this, you did not later change your minds and believe him.
• Luke 7:29-30 : 29 (Now all the people who heard this, even the tax collectors, acknowledged God’s justice, because they had been baptized with John’s baptism. 30 However, the Pharisees and the experts in religious law rejected God’s purpose for themselves, because they had not been baptized by John.)
• Luke 18:13-14 : 13 The tax collector, however, stood far off and would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said,‘God, be merciful to me, sinner that I am!’ 14 I tell you that this man went down to his home justified rather than the Pharisee. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
• Rom 5:20-21 : 20 Now the law came in so that the transgression may increase, but where sin increased, grace multiplied all the more, 21 so that just as sin reigned in death, so also grace will reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
• Rom 9:30-33 : 30 Israel’s Rejection Culpable What shall we say then?– that the Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness obtained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith, 31 but Israel even though pursuing a law of righteousness did not attain it. 32 Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but(as if it were possible) by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone, 33 just as it is written,“Look, I am laying in Zion a stone that will cause people to stumble and a rock that will make them fall, yet the one who believes in him will not be put to shame.”
• Gal 5:7 : 7 You were running well; who prevented you from obeying the truth?
• Heb 4:1 : 1 God’s Promised Rest Therefore we must be wary that, while the promise of entering his rest remains open, none of you may seem to have come short of it.
• Matt 8:11-12 : 11 I tell you, many will come from the east and west to share the banquet with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven, 12 but the sons of the kingdom will be thrown out into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”