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Matthew 14:12

And his disciples came, and took up the body, and buried it, and went and told Jesus.

KJV

καὶ προσελθόντες οἱ μαθηταὶ αὐτοῦ ἦραν τὸ πτῶμα καὶ ἔθαψαν αὐτόν, καὶ ἐλθόντες ἀπήγγειλαν τῷ Ἰησοῦ.

Greek NT

Et accedentes discipuli ejus, tulerunt corpus ejus, et sepelierunt illud : et venientes nuntiaverunt Jesu.

Vulgate

And his disciples came, and took up the corpse, and buried him; and they went and told Jesus.

ASV

And his disciples came and took the body, and buried it, and came and told Jesus.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

11 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αἴρω
airo
verb · 101×
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
θάπτω
thapto
verb · 11×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
μαθητής
mathetes
noun · 261×
προσέρχομαι
proserchomai
verb · 87×
πτῶμα
ptoma
noun · 7×
ἀπαγγέλλω
apaggello
verb · 47×
ἔρχομαι
erchomai
verb · 627×
Ἰησοῦς
iesous
noun · 908×
o
article · 19778×

Textual variants

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

minor
SBLGNT: πτῶμα | WH/Treg/NIV: πτῶμα | RP: σῶμα
  • πτῶμαSBLGNT
  • πτῶμαWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • σῶμαRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: αὐτόν | WH/Treg/NA: αὐτόν | NIV/RP: αὐτό
  • αὐτόνSBLGNT
  • αὐτόνWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Nestle-Aland 27
  • αὐτόReader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

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

2. Since however they still spoke of the multitude merely, and the place, and the wilderness (for whence, it is said, should we have in a wilderness so many loaves, as to fill so great a multitude?); and not even so understood what He said, He proceeds to contribute His own part, and says unto them, How many loaves do you have? And they say, Seven, and a few little fishes. Matt…
1. The Parable of the Tares: the House of Jesus. Then He left the multitudes and went into His house, and His disciples came unto Him saying, Declare to us the parable of the tares of the field. Matthew 13:36 When Jesus then is with the multitudes, He is not in His house, for the multitudes are outside of the house, and it is an act which springs from His love of men to leave t…

Cross-references

  • Acts 8:2 — And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentation over him.
  • Mark 6:29 — And when his disciples heard of it, they came and took up his corpse, and laid it in a tomb.