The Meaning of Luke 7:20 Explained

Luke 7:20

KJV: When the men were come unto him, they said, John Baptist hath sent us unto thee, saying, Art thou he that should come? or look we for another?

YLT: And having come near to him, the men said, 'John the Baptist sent us unto thee, saying, Art thou he who is coming, or for another do we look?'

Darby: But the men having come to him said, John the baptist has sent us to thee, saying, Art thou he that is coming, or are we to wait for another?

ASV: And when the men were come unto him, they said, John the Baptist hath sent us unto thee, saying, Art thou he that cometh, or look we for another?

Discover Luke 7:20

CONTEXT: What is the Context of Luke 7:20?

MEANING: What does Luke 7:20 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Luke 7:20 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Luke 7:20?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

When  the men  were come  unto  him,  they said,  John  Baptist  hath sent  us  unto  thee,  saying,  Art  thou  he that should come?  or  look we for  {5725} another? 

What does Luke 7:20 Mean?

Context Summary

Luke 7:11-23 - "god Hath Visited His People"
Nain lay near the plain of Esdraelon, on the slopes of Little Hermon. Two confluent streams met there-those with Christ and those with death, Luke 7:11-12. He wipes away tears by removing the cause. When the young are being borne by their young companions to graves of sin, it is thus that the Master arrests them. See Ephesians 5:14. There was a threefold gradation in the power He put forth-to Jairus' daughter, just dead; to this young man, on the way to burial; and to Lazarus, who was three days dead. The depression from John's long confinement in the gloomy fortress of Machaerus, east of the Dead Sea, and the fact that Jesus had not sent to deliver him, were the double root of this sad lapse from the position taken up on the Jordan bank, when he recognized and indicated the Lamb of God. But our Lord did not chide; He understood, Psalms 103:9. His miracles of mercy and power are His best evidences, and He left John to draw his own conclusions, Isaiah 35:5-6. May ours be the blessedness of the un-offended, who will trust Christ, even though He does not hasten to deliver them just as they had hoped! [source]

Chapter Summary: Luke 7

1  Jesus finds a greater faith in the centurion;
10  heals his servant, being absent;
11  raises from death the widow's son at Nain;
18  answers John's messengers with the declaration of his miracles;
24  testifies to the people what opinion he held of John;
31  compares this generation to the children in the marketplaces,
36  and allowing his feet to be washed and anointed by a woman who was a sinner,
44  he shows how he is a friend to sinners, to forgive them their sins, upon their repentance

What do the individual words in Luke 7:20 mean?

Having come then to Him the men said John the Baptist has sent us you saying You are coming [One] or another are we to look for
Παραγενόμενοι δὲ πρὸς αὐτὸν οἱ ἄνδρες εἶπαν Ἰωάννης ὁ Βαπτιστὴς ἀπέστειλεν ἡμᾶς σὲ λέγων Σὺ εἶ ἐρχόμενος ἢ ἄλλον προσδοκῶμεν

Παραγενόμενοι  Having  come 
Parse: Verb, Aorist Participle Middle, Nominative Masculine Plural
Root: παραγίνομαι  
Sense: to be present, to come near, approach.
ἄνδρες  men 
Parse: Noun, Nominative Masculine Plural
Root: ἀνήρ  
Sense: with reference to sex.
εἶπαν  said 
Parse: Verb, Aorist Indicative Active, 3rd Person Plural
Root: λέγω  
Sense: to speak, say.
Ἰωάννης  John 
Parse: Noun, Nominative Masculine Singular
Root: Ἰωάννης 
Sense: John the Baptist was the son of Zacharias and Elisabeth, the forerunner of Christ.
Βαπτιστὴς  Baptist 
Parse: Noun, Nominative Masculine Singular
Root: βαπτιστής  
Sense: a baptiser.
ἀπέστειλεν  has  sent 
Parse: Verb, Aorist Indicative Active, 3rd Person Singular
Root: ἀποστέλλω 
Sense: to order (one) to go to a place appointed.
ἡμᾶς  us 
Parse: Personal / Possessive Pronoun, Accusative 1st Person Plural
Root: ἐγώ  
Sense: I, me, my.
λέγων  saying 
Parse: Verb, Present Participle Active, Nominative Masculine Singular
Root: λέγω 
Sense: to say, to speak.
ἐρχόμενος  coming  [One] 
Parse: Verb, Present Participle Middle or Passive, Nominative Masculine Singular
Root: ἔρχομαι  
Sense: to come.
ἄλλον  another 
Parse: Adjective, Accusative Masculine Singular
Root: ἄλλος  
Sense: another, other.
προσδοκῶμεν  are  we  to  look  for 
Parse: Verb, Present Indicative Active, 1st Person Plural
Root: προσδοκάω  
Sense: to expect (whether in thought, in hope, or in fear).

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