Matthew 26:17

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

And on the first `day' of the unleavened food came the disciples near to Jesus, saying to him, `Where wilt thou `that' we may prepare for thee to eat the passover?'

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

¶Τῇ δὲ πρώτῃ τῶν ἀζύμων προσῆλθον οἱ μαθηταὶ τῷ Ἰησοῦ, λέγοντες αὐτῷ, Ποῦ θέλεις ἑτοιμάσωμέν σοι φαγεῖν τὸ πάσχα;

Transliteration

¶On the de first of the azymōn prosēlthon the mathētai to the Iēsou, legontes to him, Where theleis we should hetoimasōmen for you phagein the pascha?

Grammar Details

• *de*: conjunction - but/and/now
• *azymōn*: genitive, neuter, plural - of unleavened bread
• *prosēlthon*: aorist, 3rd plural, active - they came to/approached
• *mathētai*: nominative, masculine, plural - disciples
• *Iēsou*: dative, masculine, singular - to Jesus
• *legontes*: present, active, participle, nominative, masculine, plural - saying
• *theleis*: present, 2nd singular, active - you wish/want
• *hetoimasōmen*: aorist, 1st plural, subjunctive, active - we should prepare
• *phagein*: aorist, active, infinitive - to eat
• *pascha*: accusative, neuter, singular - Passover

Word Meanings

• *azymōn*: unleavened bread/feast of unleavened bread
• *prosēlthon*: came to/approached
• *theleis*: wish/want/desire
• *hetoimasōmen*: should prepare/make ready
• *phagein*: to eat/consume
• *pascha*: Passover/Passover meal

Referenced Verses

• Exod 12:18-20 : 18 `In the first `month', in the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, ye do eat unleavened things until the one and twentieth day of the month, at evening; 19 seven days leaven is not found in your houses, for any `one' eating anything fermented -- that person hath been cut off from the company of Israel, among the sojourners or among the natives of the land; 20 anything fermented ye do not eat, in all your dwellings ye do eat unleavened things.'
• Exod 12:6 : 6 `And it hath become a charge to you, until the fourteenth day of this month, and the whole assembly of the company of Israel have slaughtered it between the evenings;
• Exod 13:6-8 : 6 `Seven days thou dost eat unleavened things, and in the seventh day `is' a feast to Jehovah; 7 unleavened things are eaten the seven days, and any thing fermented is not seen with thee; yea, leaven is not seen with thee in all thy border. 8 `And thou hast declared to thy son in that day, saying, ``It is' because of what Jehovah did to me, in my going out from Egypt,
• Lev 23:5-6 : 5 in the first month, on the fourteenth of the month, between the evenings, `is' the passover to Jehovah; 6 and on the fifteenth day of this month `is' the feast of unleavened things to Jehovah; seven days unleavened things ye do eat;
• Num 28:16-17 : 16 `And in the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, `is' the passover to Jehovah; 17 and in the fifteenth day of this month `is' a festival, seven days unleavened food is eaten;
• Deut 16:1-4 : 1 `Observe the month of Abib -- and thou hast made a passover to Jehovah thy God, for in the month of Abib hath Jehovah thy God brought thee out of Egypt by night; 2 and thou hast sacrificed a passover to Jehovah thy God, of the flock, and of the herd, in the place which Jehovah doth choose to cause His name to tabernacle there. 3 `Thou dost not eat with it any fermented thing, seven days thou dost eat with it unleavened things, bread of affliction; for in haste thou hast come out of the land of Egypt; so that thou dost remember the day of thy coming out of the land of Egypt all days of thy life; 4 and there is not seen with thee leaven in all thy border seven days, and there doth not remain of the flesh which thou dost sacrifice at evening on the first day till morning.
• Matt 3:15 : 15 But Jesus answering said to him, `Suffer now, for thus it is becoming to us to fulfill all righteousness,' then he doth suffer him.
• Matt 17:24-25 : 24 And they having come to Capernaum, those receiving the didrachms came near to Peter, and said, `Your teacher -- doth he not pay the didrachms?' He saith, `Yes.' 25 And when he came into the house, Jesus anticipated him, saying, `What thinkest thou, Simon? the kings of the earth -- from whom do they receive custom or poll-tax? from their sons or from the strangers?'
• Matt 26:19 : 19 and the disciples did as Jesus appointed them, and prepared the passover.
• Mark 14:12-16 : 12 And the first day of the unleavened food, when they were killing the passover, his disciples say to him, `Where wilt thou, `that,' having gone, we may prepare, that thou mayest eat the passover?' 13 And he sendeth forth two of his disciples, and saith to them, `Go ye away to the city, and there shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water, follow him; 14 and wherever he may go in, say ye to the master of the house -- The Teacher saith, Where is the guest-chamber, where the passover, with my disciples, I may eat? 15 and he will shew you a large upper room, furnished, prepared -- there make ready for us.' 16 And his disciples went forth, and came to the city, and found as he said to them, and they made ready the passover.
• Luke 22:7-9 : 7 And the day of the unleavened food came, in which it was behoving the passover to be sacrificed, 8 and he sent Peter and John, saying, `Having gone on, prepare to us the passover, that we may eat;' 9 and they said to him, `Where wilt thou that we might prepare?' 10 And he said to them, `Lo, in your entering into the city, there shall meet you a man, bearing a pitcher of water, follow him to the house where he doth go in, 11 and ye shall say to the master of the house, The Teacher saith to thee, Where is the guest-chamber where the passover with my disciples I may eat? 12 and he shall show you a large upper room furnished, there make ready;' 13 and they, having gone away, found as he hath said to them, and they made ready the passover.