Matthew 28:12

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and having been gathered together with the elders, counsel also having taken, they gave much money to the soldiers,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ συναχθέντες μετὰ τῶν πρεσβυτέρων, συμβούλιόν τε λαβόντες, ἀργύρια ἱκανὰ ἔδωκαν τοῖς στρατιώταις,

Transliteration

And synachthentes with the presbyterōn, symboulion te labontes, argyria hikana edōkan to the stratiōtais,

Grammar Details

• *synachthentes*: aorist passive participle, nominative, masculine, plural - having been gathered
• *presbyterōn*: genitive, masculine, plural - of elders
• *symboulion*: accusative, neuter, singular - counsel/plan
• *te*: enclitic particle - and/both
• *labontes*: aorist active participle, nominative, masculine, plural - having taken
• *argyria*: accusative, neuter, plural - silver coins
• *hikana*: accusative, neuter, plural - sufficient/considerable
• *edōkan*: aorist active, 3rd plural - they gave
• *stratiōtais*: dative, masculine, plural - to soldiers

Word Meanings

• *synachthentes*: having been gathered/assembled/collected
• *presbyterōn*: elders/older men
• *symboulion*: counsel/plan/consultation
• *labontes*: having taken/received
• *argyria*: silver coins/money
• *hikana*: sufficient/considerable/large amount
• *edōkan*: gave/granted
• *stratiōtais*: soldiers/troops

Referenced Verses

• Ps 2:1-7 : 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.' 7 I declare concerning a statute: Jehovah said unto me, `My Son Thou `art', I to-day have brought thee forth.
• Matt 26:3-4 : 3 Then were gathered together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, to the court of the chief priest who was called Caiaphas; 4 and they consulted together that they might take Jesus by guile, and kill `him',
• Matt 27:1-2 : 1 And morning having come, all the chief priests and the elders of the people took counsel against Jesus, so as to put him to death; 2 and having bound him, they did lead away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the governor.
• Matt 27:62-64 : 62 And on the morrow that is after the preparation, were gathered together the chief priests, and the Pharisees, unto Pilate, 63 saying, `Sir, we have remembered that that deceiver said while yet living, After three days I do rise; 64 command, then, the sepulchre to be made secure till the third day, lest his disciples, having come by night, may steal him away, and may say to the people, He rose from the dead, and the last deceit shall be worse than the first.'
• Acts 4:5-9 : 5 And it came to pass upon the morrow, there were gathered together of them the rulers, and elders, and scribes, to Jerusalem, 6 and Annas the chief priest, and Caiaphas, and John, and Alexander, and as many as were of the kindred of the chief priest, 7 and having set them in the midst, they were inquiring, `In what power, or in what name did ye do this?' 8 Then Peter, having been filled with the Holy Spirit, said unto them: `Rulers of the people, and elders of Israel, 9 if we to-day are examined concerning the good deed to the ailing man, by whom he hath been saved, 10 be it known to all of you, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye did crucify, whom God did raise out of the dead, in him hath this one stood by before you whole. 11 `This is the stone that was set at nought by you -- the builders, that became head of a corner; 12 and there is not salvation in any other, for there is no other name under the heaven that hath been given among men, in which it behoveth us to be saved.' 13 And beholding the openness of Peter and John, and having perceived that they are men unlettered and plebeian, they were wondering -- they were taking knowledge also of them that with Jesus they had been -- 14 and seeing the man standing with them who hath been healed, they had nothing to say against `it', 15 and having commanded them to go away out of the sanhedrim, they took counsel with one another, 16 saying, `What shall we do to these men? because that, indeed, a notable sign hath been done through them, to all those dwelling in Jerusalem `is' manifest, and we are not able to deny `it'; 17 but that it may spread no further toward the people, let us strictly threaten them no more to speak in this name to any man.' 18 And having called them, they charged them not to speak at all, nor to teach, in the name of Jesus, 19 and Peter and John answering unto them said, `Whether it is righteous before God to hearken to you rather than to God, judge ye; 20 for we cannot but speak what we did see and hear.' 21 And they having further threatened `them', let them go, finding nothing how they may punish them, because of the people, because all were glorifying God for that which hath been done, 22 for above forty years of age was the man upon whom had been done this sign of the healing.
• Acts 5:33-34 : 33 And they having heard, were cut `to the heart', and were taking counsel to slay them, 34 but a certain one, having risen up in the sanhedrim -- a Pharisee, by name Gamaliel, a teacher of law honoured by all the people -- commanded to put the apostles forth a little,
• Acts 5:40 : 40 And to him they agreed, and having called near the apostles, having beaten `them', they commanded `them' not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go;
• John 11:47 : 47 the chief priests, therefore, and the Pharisees, gathered together a sanhedrim, and said, `What may we do? because this man doth many signs?
• John 12:10-11 : 10 and the chief priests took counsel, that also Lazarus they may kill, 11 because on account of him many of the Jews were going away, and were believing in Jesus.