Luke 4:23

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And he said unto them, `Certainly ye will say to me this simile, Physician, heal thyself; as great things as we heard done in Capernaum, do also here in thy country;'

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ εἶπεν πρὸς αὐτούς, Πάντως ἐρεῖτέ μοι τὴν παραβολὴν ταύτην, Ἰατρέ, θεράπευσον σεαυτόν: ὅσα ἠκούσαμεν γενόμενα ἐν τῇ Καπερναούμ, ποίησον καὶ ὧδε ἐν τῇ πατρίδι σου.

Transliteration

And eipen pros them, Pantōs ereite to me this parabolēn, Iatre, therapeuson seauton: whatever we ēkousamen genomena in Kapernaoum, poiēson also here in the patridi of you.

Grammar Details

• *eipen*: aorist, active, indicative, 3rd singular - said
• *pros*: preposition + accusative - to/toward
• *Pantōs*: adverb - surely/certainly/by all means
• *ereite*: future, active, indicative, 2nd plural - you will say
• *parabolēn*: accusative, feminine, singular - parable/proverb
• *Iatre*: vocative, masculine, singular - physician
• *therapeuson*: aorist, active, imperative, 2nd singular - heal
• *seauton*: accusative, masculine, singular, reflexive pronoun - yourself
• *ēkousamen*: aorist, active, indicative, 1st plural - we heard
• *genomena*: aorist, middle, participle, accusative, neuter, plural - having happened
• *Kapernaoum*: dative, feminine, singular - Capernaum
• *poiēson*: aorist, active, imperative, 2nd singular - do
• *patridi*: dative, feminine, singular - hometown/native place

Word Meanings

• *Pantōs*: surely/certainly/no doubt
• *parabolēn*: parable/proverb/saying
• *therapeuson*: heal/cure/treat
• *genomena*: having happened/occurred/done
• *patridi*: hometown/native place/country

Referenced Verses

• Mark 6:1 : 1 And he went forth thence, and came to his own country, and his disciples do follow him,
• Matt 4:13 : 13 and having left Nazareth, having come, he dwelt at Capernaum that is by the sea, in the borders of Zebulun and Naphtalim,
• Matt 4:23 : 23 And Jesus was going about all Galilee teaching in their synagogues, and proclaiming the good news of the reign, and healing every disease, and every malady among the people,
• Matt 11:23-24 : 23 `And thou, Capernaum, which unto the heaven wast exalted, unto hades shalt be brought down, because if in Sodom had been done the mighty works that were done in thee, it had remained unto this day; 24 but I say to you, to the land of Sodom it shall be more tolerable in a day of judgment than to thee.'
• Matt 13:54 : 54 and having come to his own country, he was teaching them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and were saying, `Whence to this one this wisdom and the mighty works?
• Mark 1:21-28 : 21 And they go on to Capernaum, and immediately, on the sabbaths, having gone into the synagogue, he was teaching, 22 and they were astonished at his teaching, for he was teaching them as having authority, and not as the scribes. 23 And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit, and he cried out, 24 saying, `Away! what -- to us and to thee, Jesus the Nazarene? thou didst come to destroy us; I have known thee who thou art -- the Holy One of God.' 25 And Jesus rebuked him, saying, `Be silenced, and come forth out of him,' 26 and the unclean spirit having torn him, and having cried with a great voice, came forth out of him, 27 and they were all amazed, so as to reason among themselves, saying, `What is this? what new teaching `is' this? that with authority also the unclean spirits he commandeth, and they obey him!' 28 And the fame of him went forth immediately to all the region, round about, of Galilee.
• Mark 2:1-9 : 1 And again he entered into Capernaum, after `some' days, and it was heard that he is in the house, 2 and immediately many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even at the door, and he was speaking to them the word. 3 And they come unto him, bringing a paralytic, borne by four, 4 and not being able to come near to him because of the multitude, they uncovered the roof where he was, and, having broken `it' up, they let down the couch on which the paralytic was lying, 5 and Jesus having seen their faith, saith to the paralytic, `Child, thy sins have been forgiven thee.' 6 And there were certain of the scribes there sitting, and reasoning in their hearts, 7 `Why doth this one thus speak evil words? who is able to forgive sins except one -- God?' 8 And immediately Jesus, having known in his spirit that they thus reason in themselves, said to them, `Why these things reason ye in your hearts? 9 which is easier, to say to the paralytic, The sins have been forgiven to thee? or to say, Rise, and take up thy couch, and walk? 10 `And, that ye may know that the Son of Man hath authority on the earth to forgive sins -- (he saith to the paralytic) -- 11 I say to thee, Rise, and take up thy couch, and go away to thy house;' 12 and he rose immediately, and having taken up the couch, he went forth before all, so that all were astonished, and do glorify God, saying -- `Never thus did we see.'
• Luke 4:16 : 16 And he came to Nazareth, where he hath been brought up, and he went in, according to his custom, on the sabbath-day, to the synagogue, and stood up to read;
• Luke 6:42 : 42 or how art thou able to say to thy brother, Brother, suffer, I may take out the mote that `is' in thine eye -- thyself the beam in thine own eye not beholding? Hypocrite, take first the beam out of thine own eye, and then thou shalt see clearly to take out the mote that `is' in thy brother's eye.
• John 2:3-4 : 3 and wine having failed, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, `Wine they have not;' 4 Jesus saith to her, `What -- to me and to thee, woman? not yet is mine hour come.'
• John 4:28 : 28 The woman then left her water-jug, and went away to the city, and saith to the men,
• John 4:46-53 : 46 Jesus came, therefore, again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine, and there was a certain courtier, whose son was ailing in Capernaum, 47 he, having heard that Jesus is come out of Judea to Galilee, went away unto him, and was asking him that he may come down and may heal his son, for he was about to die. 48 Jesus then said unto him, `If signs and wonders ye may not see, ye will not believe.' 49 The courtier saith unto him, `Sir, come down before my child die;' 50 Jesus saith to him, `Be going on; thy son doth live.' And the man believed the word that Jesus said to him, and was going on, 51 and he now going down, his servants met him, and told, saying -- `Thy child doth live;' 52 he inquired then of them the hour in which he became better, and they said to him -- `Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him;' 53 then the father knew that `it was' in that hour in which Jesus said to him -- `Thy son doth live,' and he himself believed, and his whole house;
• John 7:3-4 : 3 his brethren, therefore, said unto him, `Remove hence, and go away to Judea, that thy disciples also may behold thy works that thou dost; 4 for no one in secret doth anything, and himself seeketh to be in public; if thou dost these things -- manifest thyself to the world;'
• Rom 2:21-22 : 21 Thou, then, who art teaching another, thyself dost thou not teach? 22 thou who art preaching not to steal, dost thou steal? thou who art saying not to commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou who art abhorring the idols, dost thou rob temples?
• Rom 11:34-35 : 34 for who did know the mind of the Lord? or who did become His counsellor? 35 or who did first give to Him, and it shall be given back to him again?
• 2 Cor 5:16 : 16 So that we henceforth have known no one according to the flesh, and even if we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him no more;