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Luke 7:33

For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a devil.

KJV

ἐλήλυθεν γὰρ Ἰωάννης ὁ βαπτιστὴς μὴ ἐσθίων ἄρτον μηδὲ πίνων οἶνον, καὶ λέγετε· δαιμόνιον ἔχει.

Greek NT

Venit enim Joannes Baptista, neque manducans panem, neque bibens vinum, et dicitis : Dæmonium habet.

Vulgate

For John the Baptist is come eating no bread nor drinking wine; and ye say, He hath a demon.

ASV

For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine. And you say: He hath a devil.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

15 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

Βαπτιστής
baptistes
noun · 12×
γάρ
gar
conjunction · 1036×
δαιμόνιον
daimonion
noun · 63×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
μή
me
particle · 1033×
μηδέ
mede
conjunction · 54×
οἶνος
oinos
noun · 34×
πίνω
pino
verb · 73×
ἄρτος
artos
noun · 97×
ἐσθίω
esthio
verb · 65×
ἔρχομαι
erchomai
verb · 627×
ἔχω
echo
verb · 707×
Ἰωάννης
ioannes
noun · 134×
o
article · 19778×

Textual variants

2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

minor
SBLGNT: μὴ | WH/NIV: μὴ | Treg/RP: μήτε
  • μὴSBLGNT
  • μὴWestcott-Hort, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • μήτεTregelles, Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: ἐσθίων ἄρτον μήτε πίνων οἶνον | WH/Treg/NIV: ἐσθίων ἄρτον μήτε πίνων οἶνον | RP: ἄρτον ἐσθίων μὴτὲ οἶνον πίνων
  • ἐσθίων ἄρτον μήτε πίνων οἶνονSBLGNT
  • ἐσθίων ἄρτον μήτε πίνων οἶνονWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • ἄρτον ἐσθίων μὴτὲ οἶνον πίνωνRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Luke 1:15 — For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother’s womb.
  • Luke 1:15 — For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother’s womb.
  • Mark 1:6 — And John was clothed with camel’s hair, and with a girdle of a skin about his loins; and he did eat locusts and wild honey;
  • Matt 5:11 — Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
  • Ps 69:10 — When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.