Luke 20:14

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and having seen him, the husbandmen reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir; come, we may kill him, that the inheritance may become ours;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἰδόντες δὲ αὐτὸν οἱ γεωργοὶ, διελογίζοντο πρὸς ἑαυτούς, λέγοντες, Οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ κληρονόμος: δεῦτε, ἀποκτείνωμεν αὐτόν, ἵνα ἡμῶν γένηται ἡ κληρονομία.

Transliteration

Idontes de him the geōrgoi, dielogizonto pros heautous, legontes, This estin the klēronomos: deute, let us apokteinōmen him, that of us genētai the klēronomia.

Grammar Details

• *Idontes*: aorist active participle, nominative, plural - having seen
• *de*: postpositive conjunction - but/and
• *geōrgoi*: nominative, masculine, plural - farmers
• *dielogizonto*: imperfect middle, 3rd plural - they were reasoning
• *pros heautous*: preposition + accusative reflexive pronoun - with themselves
• *legontes*: present active participle, nominative, plural - saying
• *estin*: present active, 3rd singular - is
• *klēronomos*: nominative, masculine, singular - heir
• *deute*: adverb/interjection - come
• *apokteinōmen*: aorist active subjunctive, 1st plural - let us kill
• *genētai*: aorist middle subjunctive, 3rd singular - might become
• *klēronomia*: nominative, feminine, singular - inheritance

Word Meanings

• *Idontes*: having seen/when they saw
• *geōrgoi*: farmers/vinedressers/husbandmen
• *dielogizonto*: they were reasoning/discussing/plotting
• *pros heautous*: with themselves/among themselves
• *klēronomos*: heir/inheritor
• *deute*: come/come now/come here
• *apokteinōmen*: let us kill/we should kill
• *genētai*: might become/may become
• *klēronomia*: inheritance/possession/property

Referenced Verses

• Rom 8:17 : 17 and if children, also heirs, heirs, indeed, of God, and heirs together of Christ -- if, indeed, we suffer together, that we may also be glorified together.
• Heb 1:2 : 2 in these last days did speak to us in a Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He did make the ages;
• Gen 37:18-20 : 18 And they see him from afar, even before he draweth near unto them, and they conspire against him to put him to death. 19 And they say one unto another, `Lo, this man of the dreams cometh; 20 and now, come, and we slay him, and cast him into one of the pits, and have said, An evil beast hath devoured him; and we see what his dreams are.'
• Ps 2:1-6 : 1 Why have nations tumultuously assembled? And do peoples meditate vanity? 2 Station themselves do kings of the earth, And princes have been united together, Against Jehovah, and against His Messiah: 3 `Let us draw off Their cords, And cast from us Their thick bands.' 4 He who is sitting in the heavens doth laugh, The Lord doth mock at them. 5 Then doth He speak unto them in His anger, And in His wrath He doth trouble them: 6 `And I -- I have anointed My King, Upon Zion -- My holy hill.'
• Ps 2:8 : 8 Ask of Me and I give nations -- thy inheritance, And thy possession -- the ends of earth.
• Ps 89:27 : 27 I also first-born do appoint him, Highest of the kings of the earth.
• Matt 2:2-9 : 2 saying, `Where is he who was born king of the Jews? for we saw his star in the east, and we came to bow to him.' 3 And Herod the king having heard, was stirred, and all Jerusalem with him, 4 and having gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he was inquiring from them where the Christ is born. 5 And they said to him, `In Beth-Lehem of Judea, for thus it hath been written through the prophet, 6 And thou, Beth-Lehem, the land of Judah, thou art by no means the least among the leaders of Judah, for out of thee shall come one leading, who shall feed My people Israel.' 7 Then Herod, privately having called the mages, did inquire exactly from them the time of the appearing star, 8 and having sent them to Beth-Lehem, he said, `Having gone -- inquire ye exactly for the child, and whenever ye may have found, bring me back word, that I also having come may bow to him.' 9 And they, having heard the king, departed, and lo, the star, that they did see in the east, did go before them, till, having come, it stood over where the child was. 10 And having seen the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy, 11 and having come to the house, they found the child with Mary his mother, and having fallen down they bowed to him, and having opened their treasures, they presented to him gifts, gold, and frankincense, and myrrh, 12 and having been divinely warned in a dream not to turn back unto Herod, through another way they withdrew to their own region. 13 And on their having withdrawn, lo, a messenger of the Lord doth appear in a dream to Joseph, saying, `Having risen, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and be thou there till I may speak to thee, for Herod is about to seek the child to destroy him.' 14 And he, having risen, took the child and his mother by night, and withdrew to Egypt, 15 and he was there till the death of Herod, that it might be fulfilled that was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, `Out of Egypt I did call My Son.' 16 Then Herod, having seen that he was deceived by the mages, was very wroth, and having sent forth, he slew all the male children in Beth-Lehem, and in all its borders, from two years and under, according to the time that he inquired exactly from the mages.
• Matt 16:7 : 7 and they were reasoning in themselves, saying, `Because we took no loaves.'
• Matt 21:25 : 25 the baptism of John, whence was it? -- from heaven, or from men?' And they were reasoning with themselves, saying, `If we should say, From heaven; he will say to us, Wherefore, then, did ye not believe him?
• Matt 27:21-25 : 21 and the governor answering said to them, `Which of the two will ye `that' I shall release to you?' And they said, `Barabbas.' 22 Pilate saith to them, `What then shall I do with Jesus who is called Christ?' They all say to him, `Let be crucified!' 23 And the governor said, `Why, what evil did he?' and they were crying out the more, saying, `Let be crucified.' 24 And Pilate having seen that it profiteth nothing, but rather a tumult is made, having taken water, he did wash the hands before the multitude, saying, `I am innocent from the blood of this righteous one; ye -- ye shall see;' 25 and all the people answering said, `His blood `is' upon us, and upon our children!'
• Luke 19:47 : 47 And he was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests and the scribes were seeking to destroy him -- also the chiefs of the people --
• Luke 20:5 : 5 And they reasoned with themselves, saying -- `If we may say, From heaven, he will say, Wherefore, then, did ye not believe him?
• Luke 20:19 : 19 And the chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him in that hour, and they feared the people, for they knew that against them he spake this simile.
• Luke 22:2 : 2 and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how they may take him up, for they were afraid of the people.
• John 11:47-50 : 47 the chief priests, therefore, and the Pharisees, gathered together a sanhedrim, and said, `What may we do? because this man doth many signs? 48 if we may let him alone thus, all will believe in him; and the Romans will come, and will take away both our place and nation.' 49 and a certain one of them, Caiaphas, being chief priest of that year, said to them, `Ye have not known anything, 50 nor reason that it is good for us that one man may die for the people, and not the whole nation perish.'
• Acts 2:23 : 23 this one, by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, being given out, having taken by lawless hands, having crucified -- ye did slay;
• Acts 3:15 : 15 and the Prince of the life ye did kill, whom God did raise out of the dead, of which we are witnesses;