Luke 9:27 BSB — MannaFest

Luke 9:27

But I tell you truthfully, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the kingdom of God.”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

But I tell you of a truth, There are some of them that stand here, who shall in no wise taste of death, till they see the kingdom of God.

KJV

But I tell you of a truth, there be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the kingdom of God.

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Commentary

3 voices

Ambrose of Milan

Commentary on Luke (397)

Thus, if we wish not to fear death, let us stand where Christ is, so that he may say of us too, "There are some standing here that shall not taste death." It is not enough to stand unless the standing is where Christ is, for only those who can stand with Christ cannot taste death. It is therein lawful through the quality of the very word to ponder that those who are seen to have deserved the fellowship with Christ will not have even the perception of death.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

Ambrose of Milan

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (397)

Now our Lord while He ever raises us to look to the future reward of virtue, and teaches us how good it is to despise worldly things, so also He supports the weakness of the human mind by a present recompense. For it is a hard thing to take up the cross, and expose your life to danger and your body to death; to give up what you are, when you wish to be what you are not; and even the loftiest virtue seldom exchanges things present for future.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

The reference, beyond doubt, is to the firm establishment and victorious progress, in the lifetime of some then present, of that new Kingdom of Christ, which was destined to work the greatest of all changes on this earth, and be the grand pledge of His final coming in glory.

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Original language & word study

21 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
λέγω	legō	I say	G3004 →
δὲ	de	now	G1161 →
ὑμῖν	humin	to you	G4771 →
ἀληθῶς	alēthōs	truthfully	G230 →
εἰσίν	eisin	there are	G1510 →
τινες	tines	some	G5100 →
τῶν	tōn	of those	G3588 →
αὐτοῦ	autou	there	G847 →
ἑστηκότων	hestēkotōn	already standing	G2476 →
οἳ	hoi	who	G3739 →
οὐ	ou	certainly	G3756 →
μὴ	mē	not	G3361 →
γεύσωνται	geusōntai	may taste	G1089 →
θανάτου	thanatou	of death	G2288 →
ἕως	he'ōs	until	G2193 →
ἂν	an	maybe	G302 →
ἴδωσιν	idōsin	they may have seen	G1492 →
τὴν	tēn	the	G3588 →
βασιλείαν	basileian	kingdom	G932 →
τοῦ	tou	<the>	G3588 →
θεοῦ.¶	theou	of God.	G2316 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Matthew 16:28
Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom.”
leads to
- Mark 9:1
  Then Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, there are some standing here who will not taste death before they see the kingdom of God arrive with power.”
- John 8:52
  “Now we know that You have a demon!” declared the Jews. “Abraham died, and so did the prophets, yet You say that anyone who keeps Your word will never taste death.
- Matthew 26:64
  “You have said it yourself,” Jesus answered. “But I say to all of you, from now on you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of Power and coming on…
- Matthew 10:23
  When they persecute you in one town, flee to the next. Truly I tell you, you will not reach all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.
Through
Mark 9:1
Then Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, there are some standing here who will not taste death before they see the kingdom of God arrive with power.”
leads to
- Hebrews 2:9
  But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, now crowned with glory and honor because He suffered death, so that by the grace of God He might taste death…
- Mark 13:30
  Truly I tell you, this generation will not pass away until all these things have happened.
Through
Luke 2:26
The Holy Spirit had revealed to him that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord’s Christ.
leads to
- John 8:51
  Truly, truly, I tell you, if anyone keeps My word, he will never see death.”
- Hebrews 11:5
  By faith Enoch was taken up so that he did not see death: “He could not be found, because God had taken him away.” For before he was taken, he was commended as one…