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Luke 16:27

Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father’s house:

KJV

εἶπεν δέ· ἐρωτῶ οὖν σε, πάτερ, ἵνα πέμψῃς αὐτὸν εἰς τὸν οἶκον τοῦ πατρός μου·

Greek NT

Et ait : Rogo ergo te, pater, ut mittas eum in domum patris mei :

Vulgate

And he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father’s house;

ASV

And he said: Then, father, I beseech thee that thou wouldst send him to my father's house, for I have five brethren,

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

13 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
εἰς
eis
preposition · 1769×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
οἶκος
oikos
noun · 115×
οὖν
oun
conjunction · 489×
πέμπω
pempo
verb · 79×
πατήρ
pater
noun · 412×
σύ
su
pronoun · 1071×
ἐγώ
ego
pronoun · 1720×
ἐρωτάω
erotao
verb · 65×
ἵνα
ina
conjunction · 665×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

minor
SBLGNT: σε οὖν | WH/Treg/NIV: σε οὖν | RP: οὖν σε
  • σε οὖν — SBLGNT
  • σε οὖν — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • οὖν σε — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Parable

Historic Christian voices

5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§1859Mortal sin requires full knowledge and complete consent. It presupposes knowledge of the sinful character of the act, of its opposition to God's law. It also implies a consent sufficiently deliberate to be a personal choice. Feigned ignorance and hardness of heart133 do not diminish, but rather increase, the voluntary character of a sin.
§2831But the presence of those who hunger because they lack bread opens up another profound meaning of this petition. the drama of hunger in the world calls Christians who pray sincerely to exercise responsibility toward their brethren, both in their personal behavior and in their solidarity with the human family. This petition of the Lord's Prayer cannot be isolated from the parabl…
2. Now when He is departed from the sea, there follows another miracle yet more awful. For men possessed with devils, like wicked runaways at sight of their master, said, What have we to do with You, Jesus, You Son of God? Have You come here to torment us before the time? Matthew 8:29 For, because the multitudes called Him man, the devils came proclaiming His Godhead, and they …

Cross-references

  • Eccl 2:18 — Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.
  • Job 42:10 — And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.
  • Ps 17:14 — From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of
  • Ps 37:10 — For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.
  • Ps 49:13 — This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.