KJV: And his disciples came, and took up the body, and buried it, and went and told Jesus.
YLT: And his disciples having come, took up the body, and buried it, and having come, they told Jesus,
Darby: And his disciples came and took the body and buried it, and came and brought word to Jesus.
ASV: And his disciples came, and took up the corpse, and buried him; and they went and told Jesus.
προσελθόντες | having come |
Parse: Verb, Aorist Participle Active, Nominative Masculine Plural Root: προσέρχομαι Sense: to come to, approach. |
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μαθηταὶ | disciples |
Parse: Noun, Nominative Masculine Plural Root: μαθητής Sense: a learner, pupil, disciple. |
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αὐτοῦ | of him |
Parse: Personal / Possessive Pronoun, Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Singular Root: αὐτός Sense: himself, herself, themselves, itself. |
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ἦραν | took |
Parse: Verb, Aorist Indicative Active, 3rd Person Plural Root: αἴρω Sense: to raise up, elevate, lift up. |
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πτῶμα | body |
Parse: Noun, Accusative Neuter Singular Root: πτῶμα Sense: a fall, downfall. |
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ἔθαψαν | buried |
Parse: Verb, Aorist Indicative Active, 3rd Person Plural Root: θάπτω Sense: to bury, inter. |
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ἐλθόντες | having come |
Parse: Verb, Aorist Participle Active, Nominative Masculine Plural Root: ἔρχομαι Sense: to come. |
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ἀπήγγειλαν | they told |
Parse: Verb, Aorist Indicative Active, 3rd Person Plural Root: ἀγγέλλω Sense: to bring tidings (from a person or a thing), bring word, report. |
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τῷ | - |
Parse: Article, Dative Masculine Singular Root: ὁ Sense: this, that, these, etc. |
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Ἰησοῦ | Jesus |
Parse: Noun, Dative Masculine Singular Root: Ἰησοῦς Sense: Joshua was the famous captain of the Israelites, Moses’ successor. |
Greek Commentary for Matthew 14:12
As was meet after they had given his body decent burial. It was a shock to the Master who alone knew how great John really was. The fate of John was a prophecy of what was before Jesus. According to Matthew 14:13 the news of the fate of John led to the withdrawal of Jesus to the desert privately, an additional motive besides the need for rest after the strain of the recent tour. [source]
Reverse Greek Commentary Search for Matthew 14:12
As in Matthew 14:12, the corpse. Originally a fallen body from πιπτω piptō to fall, like Latin cadaver from cado, to fall. The proverb here as in Luke 17:37, is like that in Job 39:30; Proverbs 30:17. [source]
Mark now proceeds to give the narrative of the death of John the Baptist some while before these nervous fears of Herod. But this post eventum narrative is very little out of the chronological order. The news of John‘s death at Machaerus may even have come at the close of the Galilean tour. “The tidings of the murder of the Baptist seem to have brought the recent circuit to an end” (Swete). The disciples of John “went and told Jesus. Now when Jesus heard it, he withdrew from thence in a boat” (Matthew 14:12.). See note on Matthew 14:3-12 for the discussion about Herod Antipas and John and Herodias. [source]
See note on Matthew 24:28. It was a mournful time for the disciples of John. “They went and told Jesus” (Matthew 14:12). What else could they do? [source]
According to Roman law. Ulpian, a Roman jurist of the third century, says: “The bodies of those who are capitally punished cannot be denied to their relatives. At this day, however, the bodies of those who are executed are buried only in case permission is asked and granted; and sometimes permission is not given, especially in the cases of those who are punished for high treason. The bodies of the executed are to be given for burial to any one who asks for them.” Avaricious governors sometimes sold this privilege. Cicero, in one of his orations against Verres, has a terribly graphic passage describing such extortions. After dwelling upon the tortures inflicted upon the condemned, he says: “Yet death is the end. It shall not be. Can cruelty go further? A way shall be found. For the bodies of the beheaded shall be thrown to the beasts. If this is grievous to parents, they may buy the liberty of burial” (v., 45). Compare Matthew 14:12; Acts 8:2. [source]
Second aorist active participle of διερχομαι dierchomai accusative case agreeing with Παυλον Paulon accusative of general reference with the infinitive ελτειν elthein idiomatic construction with εγενετο egeneto The word for “upper” Instead he took the more direct road through the Cayster Valley to Ephesus. Codex Bezae says here that Paul wanted to go back to Jerusalem, but that the Holy Spirit bade him to go into Asia where he had been forbidden to go in the second tour (Acts 16:6). Whether the upper “parts” The province of Asia included the western part of Asia Minor. The Romans took this country b.c. 130. Finally the name was extended to the whole continent. It was a jewel in the Roman empire along with Africa and was a senatorial province. It was full of great cities like Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, Laodicea (the seven churches of Rev. 2;3), Colossae, Hierapolis, Apamea, to go no further. Hellenism had full sway here. Ephesus was the capital and chief city and was a richer and larger city than Corinth. It was located at the entrance to the valley of the Maeander to the east. Here was the power of Rome and the splendour of Greek culture and the full tide of oriental superstition and magic. The Temple of Artemis was one of the seven wonders of the world. While in Ephesus some hold that Paul at this time wrote the Epistle to the Galatians after his recent visit there, some that he did it before his recent visit to Jerusalem. But it is still possible that he wrote it from Corinth just before writing to Rome, a point to discuss later. Certain disciples (τινας ματητας tinas mathētas). Who were they? Apollos had already gone to Corinth. They show no connection with Priscilla and Aquila. Luke calls them “disciples” or “learners” (ματητας mathētas) because they were evidently sincere though crude and ignorant. There is no reason at all for connecting these uninformed disciples of the Baptist with Apollos. They were floating followers of the Baptist who drifted into Ephesus and whom Paul found. Some of John‘s disciples clung to him till his death (John 3:22-25; Luke 7:19; Matthew 14:12). Some of them left Palestine without the further knowledge of Jesus that came after his death and some did not even know that, as turned out to be the case with the group in Ephesus. [source]
Old word from πιπτω piptō (to fall), a fall, especially of bodies slain in battle, a corpse, a carcase (Matthew 14:12), here the singular (some MSS. πτωματα ptōmata plural) as belonging to each of the αυτων autōn (their) like στοματος αυτων stomatos autōn (their mouth) in Revelation 11:5. So also in Revelation 11:9. No word in the Greek for “lie.” [source]