Matthew 12:50

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

for whoever may do the will of my Father who is in the heavens, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.'

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὅστις γὰρ ἂν ποιήσῃ τὸ θέλημα τοῦ Πατρός μου τοῦ ἐν οὐρανοῖς, αὐτός μου ἀδελφὸς, καὶ ἀδελφὴ, καὶ μήτηρ ἐστίν.

Transliteration

For hostis an poiēsē the thelēma of the Patros mou of the one in ouranois, autos my adelphos, and adelphē, and mētēr estin.

Grammar Details

• *hostis*: relative pronoun, masculine, singular, nominative - whoever/anyone who
• *gar*: postpositive particle - for/because
• *an*: conditional particle - would/might
• *poiēsē*: aorist subjunctive, 3rd singular - might do/perform
• *thelēma*: neuter, singular, accusative - will/desire
• *Patros*: masculine, singular, genitive - of Father
• *mou*: personal pronoun, 1st singular, genitive - of me/my
• *ouranois*: masculine, plural, dative - heavens
• *autos*: intensive pronoun, masculine, singular, nominative - he himself/that one
• *adelphos*: masculine, singular, nominative - brother/sibling
• *adelphē*: feminine, singular, nominative - sister
• *mētēr*: feminine, singular, nominative - mother
• *estin*: present indicative, 3rd singular - is

Word Meanings

• *hostis*: whoever/anyone who/the one who
• *poiēsē*: might do/perform/accomplish/carry out
• *thelēma*: will/desire/purpose/intent
• *Patros*: Father/ancestor
• *ouranois*: heavens/skies

Referenced Verses

• John 15:14 : 14 ye are my friends, if ye may do whatever I command you;
• Mark 3:35 : 35 for whoever may do the will of God, he is my brother, and my sister, and mother.'
• Luke 8:21 : 21 and he answering said unto them, `My mother and my brethren! they are those who the word of God are hearing, and doing.'
• Luke 11:27-28 : 27 And it came to pass, in his saying these things, a certain woman having lifted up the voice out of the multitude, said to him, `Happy the womb that carried thee, and the paps that thou didst suck!' 28 And he said, `Yea, rather, happy those hearing the word of God, and keeping `it'!'
• John 6:29 : 29 Jesus answered and said to them, `This is the work of God, that ye may believe in him whom He did send.'
• Matt 7:20-21 : 20 therefore from their fruits ye shall know them. 21 `Not every one who is saying to me Lord, lord, shall come into the reign of the heavens; but he who is doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens.
• Rom 8:29 : 29 because whom He did foreknow, He also did fore-appoint, conformed to the image of His Son, that he might be first-born among many brethren;
• 1 Tim 5:2 : 2 aged women as mothers, younger ones as sisters -- in all purity;
• Heb 2:11-17 : 11 for both he who is sanctifying and those sanctified `are' all of one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, 12 saying, `I will declare Thy name to my brethren, in the midst of an assembly I will sing praise to Thee;' and again, `I will be trusting on Him;' 13 and again, `Behold I and the children that God did give to me.' 14 Seeing, then, the children have partaken of flesh and blood, he himself also in like manner did take part of the same, that through death he might destroy him having the power of death -- that is, the devil -- 15 and might deliver those, whoever, with fear of death, throughout all their life, were subjects of bondage, 16 for, doubtless, of messengers it doth not lay hold, but of seed of Abraham it layeth hold, 17 wherefore it did behove him in all things to be made like to the brethren, that he might become a kind and stedfast chief-priest in the things with God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people,
• Jas 1:21-22 : 21 wherefore having put aside all filthiness and superabundance of evil, in meekness be receiving the engrafted word, that is able to save your souls; 22 and become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves,
• 1 John 2:17 : 17 and the world doth pass away, and the desire of it, and he who is doing the will of God, he doth remain -- to the age.
• 1 John 3:23-24 : 23 and this is His command, that we may believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and may love one another, even as He did give command to us, 24 and he who is keeping His commands, in Him he doth remain, and He in him; and in this we know that He doth remain in us, from the Spirit that He gave us.
• Matt 28:10 : 10 Then saith Jesus to them, `Fear ye not, go away, tell to my brethren that they may go away to Galilee, and there they shall see me.'
• Rev 22:14 : 14 `Happy are those doing His commands that the authority shall be theirs unto the tree of the life, and by the gates they may enter into the city;
• 1 Pet 4:2 : 2 no more in the desires of men, but in the will of God, to live the rest of the time in the flesh;
• Heb 5:9 : 9 and having been made perfect, he did become to all those obeying him a cause of salvation age-during,
• 1 Cor 9:5 : 5 have we not authority a sister -- a wife -- to lead about, as also the other apostles, and the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?
• 2 Cor 11:2 : 2 for I am zealous for you with zeal of God, for I did betroth you to one husband, a pure virgin, to present to Christ,
• Gal 5:6 : 6 for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith through love working.
• Gal 6:15 : 15 for in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation;
• Eph 5:25-27 : 25 The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it, 26 that he might sanctify it, having cleansed `it' with the bathing of the water in the saying, 27 that he might present it to himself the assembly in glory, not having spot or wrinkle, or any of such things, but that it may be holy and unblemished;
• Col 3:11 : 11 where there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, foreigner, Scythian, servant, freeman -- but the all and in all -- Christ.
• Matt 17:5 : 5 While he is yet speaking, lo, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and lo, a voice out of the cloud, saying, `This is My Son, -- the Beloved, in whom I did delight; hear him.'
• Matt 25:40 : 40 `And the king answering, shall say to them, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did `it' to one of these my brethren -- the least -- to me ye did `it'.
• Matt 25:45 : 45 `Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did `it' not to one of these, the least, ye did `it' not to me.
• Ps 22:22 : 22 I declare Thy name to my brethren, In the midst of the assembly I praise Thee.
• Song 4:9-9 : 9 Thou hast emboldened me, my sister-spouse, Emboldened me with one of thine eyes, With one chain of thy neck. 10 How wonderful have been thy loves, my sister-spouse, How much better have been thy loves than wine, And the fragrance of thy perfumes than all spices.
• Song 4:12 : 12 A garden shut up `is' my sister-spouse, A spring shut up -- a fountain sealed.
• Song 5:1-2 : 1 I have come in to my garden, my sister-spouse, I have plucked my myrrh with my spice, I have eaten my comb with my honey, I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends, drink, Yea, drink abundantly, O beloved ones! 2 I am sleeping, but my heart waketh: The sound of my beloved knocking! `Open to me, my sister, my friend, My dove, my perfect one, For my head is filled `with' dew, My locks `with' drops of the night.'
• John 6:40 : 40 and this is the will of Him who sent me, that every one who is beholding the Son, and is believing in him, may have life age-during, and I will raise him up in the last day.'
• John 19:26-27 : 26 Jesus, therefore, having seen `his' mother, and the disciple standing by, whom he was loving, he saith to his mother, `Woman, lo, thy son;' 27 afterward he saith to the disciple, `Lo, thy mother;' and from that hour the disciple took her to his own `home'.
• John 20:17 : 17 Jesus saith to her, `Be not touching me, for I have not yet ascended unto my Father; and be going on to my brethren, and say to them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father, and to my God, and to your God.'
• Acts 3:22-23 : 22 `For Moses, indeed, unto the fathers said -- A prophet to you shall the Lord your God raise up out of your brethren, like to me; him shall ye hear in all things, as many as he may speak unto you; 23 and it shall be, every soul that may not hear that prophet shall be utterly destroyed out of the people;
• Acts 16:30-31 : 30 and having brought them forth, said, `Sirs, what must I do -- that I may be saved?' 31 and they said, `Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved -- thou and thy house;'
• Acts 17:30 : 30 the times, indeed, therefore, of the ignorance God having overlooked, doth now command all men everywhere to reform,
• Acts 26:20 : 20 but to those in Damascus first, and to those in Jerusalem, to all the region also of Judea, and to the nations, I was preaching to reform, and to turn back unto God, doing works worthy of reformation;