Anakalypsis / Unveiling the Word

Matthew 11:26

Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight.

KJV

ναί ὁ πατήρ, ὅτι οὕτως εὐδοκία ἐγένετο ἔμπροσθέν σου.

Greek NT

Ita Pater : quoniam sic fuit placitum ante te.

Vulgate

yea, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in thy sight.

ASV

Yea, Father: for so hath it seemed good in thy sight.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

9 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

γίνομαι
ginomai
verb · 667×
εὐδοκία
eudokia
noun · 9×
ναί
nai
particle · 34×
οὕτω
outo
adverb · 208×
πατήρ
pater
noun · 412×
σύ
su
pronoun · 1071×
ἔμπροσθεν
emprosthen
adverb · 48×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×

Textual variants

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

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

Historic Christian voices

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

§2603The evangelists have preserved two more explicit prayers offered by Christ during his public ministry. Each begins with thanksgiving. In the first, Jesus confesses the Father, acknowledges, and blesses him because he has hidden the mysteries of the Kingdom from those who think themselves learned and has revealed them to infants, the poor of the Beatitudes.48 His exclamation, "Y…
§2701Vocal prayer is an essential element of the Christian life. To his disciples, drawn by their Master's silent prayer, Jesus teaches a vocal prayer, the Our Father. He not only prayed aloud the liturgical prayers of the synagogue but, as the Gospels show, he raised his voice to express his personal prayer, from exultant blessing of the Father to the agony of Gesthemani.3
§2779Before we make our own this first exclamation of the Lord's Prayer, we must humbly cleanse our hearts of certain false images drawn "from this world." Humility makes us recognize that "no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him," that is, "to little children."30 The purification of our hear…
Canons of Dort · 3 passages
Moreover, Holy Scripture most especially highlights this eternal and undeserved grace of our election and brings it out more clearly for us, in that it further bears witness that not all people have been chosen but that some have not been chosen or have been passed by in God's eternal election — those, that is, concerning whom God, on the basis of his entirely free, most just, …
The Synod rejects the errors of those who teach that it was not on the basis of his just will alone that God decided to leave anyone in the fall of Adam and in the common state of sin and condemnation or to pass anyone by in the communication of grace necessary for faith and conversion. For these words stand firm: "He has mercy on whom he wills, and he hardens whom he wills" (R…
In the Old Testament, God revealed this secret of his will to a small number; in the New Testament (now that the distinction between peoples has been removed) he discloses it to a large number. The reason for this difference must not be ascribed to the greater worth of one nation over another, or to a better use of the light of nature, but to the free good pleasure and undeserv…

Cross-references

  • 1Sam 12:22 — For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people.
  • 2Tim 1:9 — Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
  • Deut 7:8 — But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen,
  • Eph 1:5 — Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
  • Eph 3:11 — According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord:
  • Gal 1:15 — But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace,
  • Jonah 1:14 — Wherefore they cried unto the LORD, and said, We beseech thee, O LORD, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man’s life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for thou, O LORD, hast done as it ple