Luke 20:34
And Jesus answering said unto them, The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage:
KJV
καὶ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς ὁ Ἰησοῦς· οἱ υἱοὶ τοῦ αἰῶνος τούτου γαμοῦσιν καὶ γαμίσκονται,
Greek NT
Et ait illis Jesus : Filii hujus sæculi nubunt, et traduntur ad nuptias :
Vulgate
And Jesus said unto them, The sons of this world marry, and are given in marriage:
ASV
And Jesus said to them: The children of this world marry and are given in marriage:
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
10 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
αἰών
aion
noun · 124×
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
γαμέω
gameo
verb · 28×
γαμίσκω
gamisko
verb · 8×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
οὗτος
outos
demonstrative · 1380×
υἱός
uios
noun · 375×
Ἰησοῦς
iesous
noun · 908×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Textual variants
2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
notable
SBLGNT: Καὶ | WH/Treg/NIV: Καὶ | RP: + ἀποκριθεὶς
- Καὶ — SBLGNT
- Καὶ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- + ἀποκριθεὶς — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: γαμίσκονται | WH/Treg/NIV: γαμίσκονται | RP: ἐκγαμίσκονται
- γαμίσκονται — SBLGNT
- γαμίσκονται — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- ἐκγαμίσκονται — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Historic Christian voices
6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
City of God · 2 passages
Chapter 23.—Whether Generation Should Have Taken Place Even in Paradise Had Man Not Sinned, or Whether There Should Have Been Any Contention There Between Chastity and Lust. But he who says that there should have been neither copulation nor generation but for sin, virtually says that man’s sin was necessary to complete the number of the saints. For if these two by not sinning s…
Chapter 20.—How It is that Cain’s Line Terminates in the Eighth Generation, While Noah, Though Descended from the Same Father, Adam, is Found to Be the Tenth from Him. Some one will say, If the writer of this history intended, in enumerating the generations from Adam through his son Seth, to descend through them to Noah, in whose time the deluge occurred, and from him again to …
Marriage in the Integral Vision of Man The Gospels according to Matthew and Mark report the answer Christ gave to the Pharisees when they questioned him about the indissolubility of marriage. They referred to the law of Moses, which in certain cases admitted the practice of the so-called certificate of divorce. Reminding them of the first chapters of Genesis, Christ answered: …
Cross-references
- Heb 13:4 — Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
- Luke 16:8 — And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.
- Luke 16:8 — And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.
- Luke 17:27 — They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
- Matt 22:30 — For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.