Luke 22:53

World English Bible (2000)

When I was with you in the temple daily, you didn't stretch out your hands against me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness."

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καθʼ ἡμέραν ὄντος μου μεθʼ ὑμῶν ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ, οὐκ ἐξετείνατε τὰς χεῖρας ἐπʼ ἐμέ: ἀλλʼ αὕτη ὑμῶν ἐστιν ἡ ὥρα, καὶ ἡ ἐξουσία τοῦ σκότους.

Transliteration

Kath' hēmeran ontos mou meth' hymōn en tō hierō, not exeteinate tas cheiras ep' me: all' hautē hymōn estin hē hōra, and the exousia tou skotous.

Grammar Details

• *Kath' hēmeran*: preposition with accusative feminine singular - daily/every day
• *ontos*: present active participle, genitive masculine singular - being
• *mou*: genitive singular pronoun - of me/my
• *meth'*: preposition (shortened form of *meta*) with genitive - with
• *hymōn*: genitive plural pronoun - of you/your
• *en tō hierō*: preposition with dative neuter singular - in the temple
• *exeteinate*: aorist active indicative, 2nd person plural - you stretched out
• *tas cheiras*: accusative feminine plural - the hands
• *ep'*: preposition with accusative - against
• *all'*: adversative conjunction (shortened form of *alla*) - but
• *hautē*: demonstrative pronoun, nominative feminine singular - this
• *estin*: present active indicative, 3rd person singular - is
• *hē hōra*: nominative feminine singular - the hour
• *exousia*: nominative feminine singular - authority/power
• *tou skotous*: genitive neuter singular - of the darkness

Word Meanings

• *Kath' hēmeran*: daily/day by day/each day
• *exousia tou skotous*: power of darkness/authority of the dark (spiritual forces)

Referenced Verses

• John 12:27 : 27 "Now my soul is troubled. What shall I say? 'Father, save me from this time?' But for this cause I came to this time.
• Eph 6:12 : 12 For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world's rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.
• Acts 26:18 : 18 to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'
• 2 Cor 4:3-6 : 3 Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who perish; 4 in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them. 5 For we don't preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake; 6 seeing it is God who said, "Light will shine out of darkness," who has shone in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
• John 14:30 : 30 I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me.
• John 16:20-22 : 20 Most certainly I tell you, that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy. 21 A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow, because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn't remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world. 22 Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.
• Col 1:13 : 13 who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love;
• Rev 12:9-9 : 9 The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him. 10 I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, "Now is come the salvation, the power, and the Kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ; for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them before our God day and night. 11 They overcame him because of the Lamb's blood, and because of the word of their testimony. They didn't love their life, even to death. 12 Therefore rejoice, heavens, and you who dwell in them. Woe to the earth and to the sea, because the devil has gone down to you, having great wrath, knowing that he has but a short time."
• Judg 16:21-30 : 21 The Philistines laid hold on him, and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he ground at the mill in the prison. 22 However the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaved. 23 The lords of the Philistines gathered them together to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice; for they said, "Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hand." 24 When the people saw him, they praised their god; for they said, "Our god has delivered our enemy and the destroyer of our country, who has slain many of us, into our hand." 25 It happened, when their hearts were merry, that they said, "Call for Samson, that he may entertain us." They called for Samson out of the prison; and he performed before them. They set him between the pillars; 26 and Samson said to the boy who held him by the hand, "Allow me to feel the pillars whereupon the house rests, that I may lean on them." 27 Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were on the roof about three thousand men and women, who saw while Samson performed. 28 Samson called to Yahweh, and said, "Lord Yahweh, remember me, please, and strengthen me, please, only this once, God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes." 29 Samson took hold of the two middle pillars on which the house rested, and leaned on them, the one with his right hand, and the other with his left. 30 Samson said, "Let me die with the Philistines!" He bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell on the lords, and on all the people who were therein. So the dead that he killed at his death were more than those who he killed in his life.
• Job 20:5 : 5 that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?
• Matt 21:12-15 : 12 Jesus entered into the temple of God, and drove out all of those who sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the money changers' tables and the seats of those who sold the doves. 13 He said to them, "It is written, 'My house shall be called a house of prayer,' but you have made it a den of robbers!" 14 The blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them. 15 But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children who were crying in the temple and saying, "Hosanna to the son of David!" they were indignant,
• Matt 21:23 : 23 When he had come into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching, and said, "By what authority do you do these things? Who gave you this authority?"
• Matt 21:45-46 : 45 When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he spoke about them. 46 When they sought to seize him, they feared the multitudes, because they considered him to be a prophet.
• Luke 21:37-38 : 37 Every day Jesus was teaching in the temple, and every night he would go out and spend the night on the mountain that is called Olivet. 38 All the people came early in the morning to him in the temple to hear him.
• John 7:25-26 : 25 Therefore some of them of Jerusalem said, "Isn't this he whom they seek to kill? 26 Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly the Christ?
• John 7:30 : 30 They sought therefore to take him; but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.
• John 7:45 : 45 The officers therefore came to the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, "Why didn't you bring him?"