Matthew 12:18

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

Beholde my chylde who I have chosen my beloved in who my soule deliteth. I wyll put my sprete on hym and he shall shewe iudgemet to ye gentyls.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἰδού ὁ παῖς μου, ὃν ᾑρέτισα· ὁ ἀγαπητός μου, εἰς ὃν εὐδόκησεν ἡ ψυχή μου: θήσω τὸ πνεῦμά μου ἐπʼ αὐτόν, καὶ κρίσιν τοῖς Ἔθνεσιν ἀπαγγελεῖ.

Transliteration

Idou the pais of me, whom I hēretisa; the agapētos of me, in whom eudokēsen the psychē of me: I will thēsō the pneuma of me upon him, and krisin to the Ethnesin he will apangelei.

Grammar Details

• *Idou*: aorist middle imperative, 2nd person singular - behold/look/see
• *pais*: nominative, masculine, singular - servant/child
• *hēretisa*: aorist active indicative, 1st person singular - I chose/selected
• *agapētos*: nominative, masculine, singular - beloved
• *eudokēsen*: aorist active indicative, 3rd person singular - was well pleased
• *psychē*: nominative, feminine, singular - soul
• *thēsō*: future active indicative, 1st person singular - I will put/place
• *pneuma*: accusative, neuter, singular - spirit
• *krisin*: accusative, feminine, singular - judgment/justice
• *Ethnesin*: dative, neuter, plural - nations/Gentiles
• *apangelei*: future active indicative, 3rd person singular - he will proclaim/announce

Word Meanings

• *Idou*: behold/look/see here
• *pais*: servant/child/son
• *hēretisa*: chose/selected/appointed
• *agapētos*: beloved/dearly loved
• *eudokēsen*: was well pleased/took delight in/found satisfaction in
• *psychē*: soul/life/inner being
• *thēsō*: will put/will place/will set
• *pneuma*: spirit/breath/wind
• *krisin*: judgment/justice/decision
• *Ethnesin*: nations/Gentiles/peoples
• *apangelei*: will proclaim/will announce/will declare

Referenced Verses

• Luke 4:18 : 18 The sprete of the LORde vpon me because he hath annoynted me: to preache ye gospell to ye poore he hath sent me: and to heale the broken harted: to preache delyverauce to the captive and sight to the blinde and frely to set at lyberte them that are brused
• John 3:34 : 34 For he whom God hath sent speaketh the wordes of God. For God geveth not the sprete by measure.
• Acts 10:38 : 38 how God had annoynted Iesus of Nazareth with the holy goost and with power which Iesus went aboute doinge good and healynge all yt were oppressed of the develles for God was with him.
• Matt 17:5 : 5 Whyll he yet spake beholde a bright cloude shadowed them. And beholde there came a voyce out of ye cloude sayinge: this is my deare sonne in whom I delite heare him.
• Rom 15:9-9 : 9 And let the gentyls prayse god for his mercy as it is written: For this cause I will prayse the amonge the gentyls and synge in thy name. 10 And agayne he sayth: reioyse ye gentyles with his people. 11 And agayne prayse the Lorde all ye gentyls and laude him all nacions. 12 And in another place Esaias sayth: ther shalbe the rote of Iesse and he that shall ryse ro raygne over the gentyls: in him shall the gentyls trust.
• Eph 1:6 : 6 to ye prayse of the glorie of his grace where with he hath made vs accepted in the beloved.
• Eph 2:11-13 : 11 Wherfore remeber yt ye beynge in tyme passed getyls in ye flesshe and were called vncircucision to the which are called circucisio in the flesshe which circucision is made by hondes: 12 Remeber I saye yt ye were at that tyme wt oute Christ and were reputed aliantes from the comen welth of Israel and were straugers fro the testamentes of promes and had no hope and were with out god in this worlde. 13 But now in Christ Iesu ye which a whyle agoo were farre of are made nye by ye bloude of Christ.
• Eph 3:5-8 : 5 which mistery in tymes passed was not opened vnto the sonnes of men as it is nowe declared vnto his holy apostles and prophetes by the sprete: 6 that the gentyls shuld be inheritours also and of the same body and partakers of his promis yt is in Christ by ye meanes of the gospell 7 whereof I am made a minister by the gyfte of the grace of god geve vnto me thorow ye workynge of his power. 8 Vnto me the lest of all sayntes is this grace geven that I shuld preache amonge the gentyls the unsearchable ryches of Christ
• Phil 2:6-7 : 6 Which beynge in the shape of god and thought it not robbery to be equall with god. 7 Neverthelesse he made him silfe of no reputacion and toke on him the shape of a servaunte and became lyke vnto men
• Col 1:1 : 1 ¶ Paul an Apostle of Iesu Christ by the wyll of God and brother Timotheus.
• Col 1:13 : 13 Which hath delivered vs from the power of dercknes and hath translated vs in to the kyngdome of his dere sone
• 1 Pet 2:4 : 4 to whom ye come as vnto a livynge stone disalowed of men but chosen of god and precious:
• 2 Pet 1:17 : 17 even then verely when he receaved of god the father honour and glory and when ther came soche a voyce to him from excellent glorie. This is my dere beloved sonne in whom I have delite.
• Mark 1:11 : 11 And ther came a voyce from heaven: Thou arte my dere sonne in whom I delyte.
• Mark 9:7 : 7 And ther was a cloude that shaddowed the. And a voyce came out of the cloude sayinge: This is my dere sonne here him.
• Luke 2:31-32 : 31 Wich thou hast prepared before the face of all people. 32 A light to lighten the gentyls and the glory of thy people Israel.
• Luke 3:22 : 22 and the holy goost came doune in a bodely shape lyke a dove vpo him and a voyce came fro heve sayinge: Thou arte my dere sonne in the do I delyte.
• Luke 9:35 : 35 And ther came a voyce out of the cloude sayinge: This is my deare sonne heare him.
• Luke 23:35 : 35 And the people stode and behelde. And the rulers mocked him with thee saying: he holpe other men let him helpe him selfe yf he be Christ the chosen of god.
• John 1:32-34 : 32 And Iohn bare recorde sayinge: I sawe the sprete descende from heven lyke vnto a dove and abyde apon him 33 and I knewe him not. But he that sent me to baptise in water the same sayde vnto me: apon whom thou shalt se the sprete descende and tary styll on him the same is he which baptiseth with the holy goost. 34 And I sawe and bare recorde that this is the sonne of God.
• Acts 11:18 : 18 when they hearde this they helde their peace and gloryfied God sayinge: then hath God also to the gentyls graunted repentaunce vnto lyfe.
• Acts 13:46-48 : 46 Then Paul and Barnabas wexed bolde and sayde: it was mete that the worde of God shulde fyrst have bene preached to you. But seinge ye put it from you and thinke youre selfes onworthy of everlastinge lyfe: lo we turne to the gentyls. 47 For so hath the Lorde comaunded vs: I have made ye a light to the getyls yt thou be salvacio vnto ye ende of ye worlde. 48 The getyls hearde and were glad and glorified the worde of ye Lorde and beleved: eve as many as were ordeyned vnto eternall lyfe.
• Acts 14:27 : 27 When they were come and had gaddered the congregacion to gedder they rehersed all that God had done by them and how he had opened the dore of faith vnto the getyls.
• Acts 26:17-18 : 17 delyverynge the from the people and from ye gentyls vnto which nowe I sende the 18 to open their eyes that they myght turne from darcknes vnto lyght and from the power of Satan vnto God that they maye receave forgevenes of synnes and inheritauce amonge the which are sanctified by fayth in me.
• Matt 3:16-17 : 16 And Iesus assone as he was baptised came strayght out of ye water. And lo heue was ope over hym: and Ihon sawe the spirite of God descende lyke a doue and lyght vpon hym. 17 And lo there came a voyce from heven sayng: Thys ys that my beloved sonne in whom is my delyte.