Luke 11:49

Webster's Bible (1833)

Therefore also the wisdom of God said, 'I will send to them prophets and apostles; and some of them they will kill and persecute,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Διὰ τοῦτο καὶ ἡ σοφία τοῦ Θεοῦ εἶπεν, Ἀποστελῶ εἰς αὐτοὺς προφήτας καὶ ἀποστόλους, καὶ ἐξ αὐτῶν ἀποκτενοῦσιν καὶ ἐκδιώξουσιν:

Transliteration

Through touto also the sophia of the Theou eipen, Apostelō unto them prophētas and apostolous, and from them apoktenousin and ekdiōxousin:

Grammar Details

• *touto*: demonstrative pronoun, accusative, neuter, singular - this
• *sophia*: nominative, feminine, singular - wisdom
• *Theou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of God
• *eipen*: aorist, indicative, active, 3rd person singular - said/spoke
• *Apostelō*: future, indicative, active, 1st person singular - I will send
• *prophētas*: accusative, masculine, plural - prophets
• *apostolous*: accusative, masculine, plural - apostles/messengers
• *apoktenousin*: future, indicative, active, 3rd person plural - they will kill
• *ekdiōxousin*: future, indicative, active, 3rd person plural - they will persecute/drive out

Word Meanings

• *sophia*: wisdom/knowledge/insight
• *Apostelō*: will send/will dispatch
• *apostolous*: apostles/messengers/sent ones
• *ekdiōxousin*: will persecute/drive out/expel/banish

Referenced Verses

• 1 Cor 1:30 : 30 But of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:
• Col 2:3 : 3 in whom are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge hidden.
• 1 Cor 1:24 : 24 but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ is the power of God and the wisdom of God.
• Prov 1:2-6 : 2 To know wisdom and instruction; To discern the words of understanding; 3 To receive instruction in wise dealing, In righteousness, justice, and equity; 4 To give prudence to the simple, Knowledge and discretion to the young man: 5 That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; That the man of understanding may attain to sound counsel: 6 To understand a proverb, and parables, The words and riddles of the wise.
• Prov 8:1-9 : 1 Doesn't wisdom cry out? Doesn't understanding raise her voice? 2 On the top of high places by the way, Where the paths meet, she stands. 3 Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, At the entry doors, she cries aloud: 4 "To you men, I call! I send my voice to the sons of mankind. 5 You simple, understand prudence. You fools, be of an understanding heart. 6 Hear, for I will speak excellent things. The opening of my lips is for right things. 7 For my mouth speaks truth. Wickedness is an abomination to my lips. 8 All the words of my mouth are in righteousness. There is nothing crooked or perverse in them. 9 They are all plain to him who understands, Right to those who find knowledge. 10 Receive my instruction rather than silver; Knowledge rather than choice gold. 11 For wisdom is better than rubies. All the things that may be desired can't be compared to it. 12 "I, wisdom, have made prudence my dwelling. Find out knowledge and discretion.
• Prov 9:1-3 : 1 Wisdom has built her house. She has carved out her seven pillars. 2 She has prepared her meat. She has mixed her wine. She has also set her table. 3 She has sent out her maidens. She cries from the highest places of the city:
• Matt 22:6 : 6 and the rest grabbed his servants, and treated them shamefully, and killed them.
• Matt 23:34-36 : 34 Therefore, behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city; 35 that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar. 36 Most assuredly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation.
• Luke 21:16-17 : 16 You will be handed over even by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends. Some of you they will cause to be put to death. 17 You will be hated by all men for my name's sake.
• Luke 24:47 : 47 and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
• John 16:2 : 2 They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.
• Acts 1:8 : 8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth."
• Acts 7:57-8:1 : 57 But they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and rushed at him with one accord. 58 They threw him out of the city, and stoned him. The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul. 59 They stoned Stephen as he called out, saying, "Lord Jesus, receive my Spirit!" 60 He kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, "Lord, don't hold this sin against them!" When he had said this, he fell asleep. 1 Saul was consenting to his death. A great persecution arose against the assembly which was in Jerusalem in that day. They were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles.
• Acts 8:3 : 3 But Saul ravaged the assembly, entering into every house, and dragged both men and women off to prison.
• Acts 9:1-2 : 1 But Saul, still breathing threats and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest, 2 and asked for letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.
• Acts 12:1-2 : 1 Now about that time, Herod the king stretched out his hands to oppress some of the assembly. 2 He killed James, the brother of John, with the sword.
• Acts 22:4-5 : 4 I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering into prisons both men and women. 5 As also the high priest and all the council of the elders testify, from whom also I received letters to the brothers, and traveled to Damascus to bring them also who were there to Jerusalem in bonds to be punished.
• Acts 22:20 : 20 When the blood of Stephen, your witness, was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting to his death, and guarding the cloaks of those who killed him.'
• Acts 26:10-11 : 10 This I also did in Jerusalem. I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them. 11 Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.
• 2 Cor 11:24-25 : 24 Five times from the Jews I received forty stripes minus one. 25 Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I suffered shipwreck. I have been a night and a day in the deep.
• Eph 4:11 : 11 He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds{The word for "shepherds" (poimenas) can also be correctly translated "pastors."} and teachers;