Luke 19:4
And he ran before, and climbed up into a sycomore tree to see him: for he was to pass that way.
KJV
καὶ προδραμὼν εἰς τὸ ἔμπροσθεν ἀνέβη ἐπὶ συκομορέαν, ἵνα ἴδῃ αὐτόν, ὅτι ἐκείνης ἤμελλεν διέρχεσθαι.
Greek NT
Et præcurrens ascendit in arborem sycomorum ut videret eum : quia inde erat transiturus.
Vulgate
And he ran on before, and climbed up into a sycomore tree to see him: for he was to pass that way.
ASV
And running before, he climbed up into a sycamore tree, that he might see him: for he was to pass that way.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
15 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
διέρχομαι
dierchomai
verb · 41×
εἰς
eis
preposition · 1769×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
μέλλω
mello
verb · 110×
προτρέχω
protrecho
verb · 2×
συκομωραία
sukomoraia
noun · 1×
ἀναβαίνω
anabaino
verb · 81×
ἐκεῖνος
ekeinos
demonstrative · 240×
ἐπί
epi
preposition · 888×
ἔμπροσθεν
emprosthen
adverb · 48×
ἵνα
ina
conjunction · 665×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὁράω
orao
verb · 682×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
trivial
SBLGNT: εἰς τὸ | WH/Treg/NIV: εἰς τὸ
- εἰς τὸ — SBLGNT
- εἰς τὸ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
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Cross-references
- 1Chr 27:28 — And over the olive trees and the sycomore trees that were in the low plains was Baalhanan the Gederite: and over the cellars of oil was Joash:
- 1Cor 13:7 — Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
- 1Kgs 10:27 — And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycomore trees that are in the vale, for abundance.
- Amos 7:14 — Then answered Amos, and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet’s son; but I was an herdman, and a gatherer of sycomore fruit:
- Isa 9:10 — The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars.
- Luke 5:19 — And when they could not find by what way they might bring him in because of the multitude, they went upon the housetop, and let him down through the tiling with his couch into the midst before Jesus.