The Meaning of Luke 17:17 Explained

Luke 17:17

KJV: And Jesus answering said, Were there not ten cleansed? but where are the nine?

YLT: And Jesus answering said, 'Were not the ten cleansed, and the nine -- where?

Darby: And Jesus answering said, Were not the ten cleansed? but the nine, where are they?

ASV: And Jesus answering said, Were not the ten cleansed? but where are the nine?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

And  Jesus  answering  said,  Were there  not  ten  cleansed?  but  where  [are] the nine? 

What does Luke 17:17 Mean?

Context Summary

Luke 17:11-21 - The Man Who Was Grateful
Their common misery drew these poor outcasts together and made them forget the fierce national antipathies of Jew and Samaritan. When bidden to go to the priest, before there were any outward signs of healing, they started, and thus gave evidence of their faith that they were healed. It was this faith that saved them, because faith like this lets in the whole tide of God's saving health. In the case of the poor alien, it was clear that he was not only healed, but saved, as his gratitude and worship indicated. Do we thank God, not only for His miracles, but for His daily providence?
The best things are stillest. The deepest work of God, in the individual and in the community, does not reveal itself to the newspaper reporter, but steals on the world like Spring through garden and woodland. [source]

Chapter Summary: Luke 17

1  Jesus teaches to avoid occasions of offense;
3  and to forgive one another
5  The power of faith
6  How we are bound to God
11  Jesus heals ten lepers
22  Of the kingdom of God, and the coming of the Son of Man

What do the individual words in Luke 17:17 mean?

Having answered then - Jesus said Not the ten were cleansed - But the nine are where
Ἀποκριθεὶς δὲ Ἰησοῦς εἶπεν Οὐχὶ οἱ δέκα ἐκαθαρίσθησαν οἱ δὲ ἐννέα ποῦ

Ἀποκριθεὶς  Having  answered 
Parse: Verb, Aorist Participle Passive, Nominative Masculine Singular
Root: ἀποκρίνομαι  
Sense: to give an answer to a question proposed, to answer.
  - 
Parse: Article, Nominative Masculine Singular
Root:  
Sense: this, that, these, etc.
Ἰησοῦς  Jesus 
Parse: Noun, Nominative Masculine Singular
Root: Ἰησοῦς  
Sense: Joshua was the famous captain of the Israelites, Moses’ successor.
εἶπεν  said 
Parse: Verb, Aorist Indicative Active, 3rd Person Singular
Root: λέγω  
Sense: to speak, say.
δέκα  ten 
Parse: Adjective, Nominative Masculine Plural
Root: δέκα 
Sense: ten.
ἐκαθαρίσθησαν  were  cleansed 
Parse: Verb, Aorist Indicative Passive, 3rd Person Plural
Root: καθαρίζω 
Sense: to make clean, cleanse.
οἱ  - 
Parse: Article, Nominative Masculine Plural
Root:  
Sense: this, that, these, etc.
ἐννέα  the  nine 
Parse: Adjective, Nominative Masculine Plural
Root: ἐννέα  
Sense: nine.
ποῦ  are  where 
Parse: Adverb
Root: ποῦ  
Sense: somewhere.

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