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Jesus

Ἰησοῦς

(Iēsous)

Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular



Of Hebrew origin; Jesus, the name of our Lord and two other Israelites.

answered,

Ἀπεκρίθη

(Apekrithē)

Verb - Aorist Indicative Passive - 3rd Person Singular



From apo and krino; to conclude for oneself, i.e. to respond; by Hebraism to begin to speak.

“My

ἐμὴ

(emē)

Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Nominative Feminine 1st Person Singular



My, mine. From the oblique cases of ego; my.

kingdom

βασιλεία

(basileia)

Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular



From basileus; properly, royalty, i.e. rule, or a realm.

is

ἔστιν

(estin)

Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular



I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

not

οὐκ

(ouk)

Adverb



No, not. Also ouk, and ouch a primary word; the absolute negative adverb; no or not.

of

ἐκ

(ek)

Preposition



From out, out from among, from, suggesting from the interior outwards. A primary preposition denoting origin, from, out.

this

τούτου

(toutou)

Demonstrative Pronoun - Genitive Masculine Singular



This; he, she, it.

world;

κόσμου

(kosmou)

Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular



Probably from the base of komizo; orderly arrangement, i.e. Decoration; by implication, the world (morally).

if

εἰ

(ei)

Conjunction



If. A primary particle of conditionality; if, whether, that, etc.

[it]

βασιλεία

(basileia)

Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular



From basileus; properly, royalty, i.e. rule, or a realm.

were,

ἦν

(ēn)

Verb - Imperfect Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular



I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

My

ἐμοὶ

(emoi)

Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative 1st Person Singular



My, mine. From the oblique cases of ego; my.

servants

ὑπηρέται

(hypēretai)

Noun - Nominative Masculine Plural



From hupo and a derivative of eresso; an under-oarsman, i.e. subordinate.

would fight

ἠγωνίζοντο

(ēgōnizonto)

Verb - Imperfect Indicative Middle or Passive - 3rd Person Plural



From agon; to struggle, literally, figuratively, or genitive case.

to

ἵνα

(hina)

Conjunction



In order that, so that. Probably from the same as the former part of heautou; in order that.

prevent My arrest

παραδοθῶ

(paradothō)

Verb - Aorist Subjunctive Passive - 1st Person Singular



From para and didomi; to surrender, i.e yield up, intrust, transmit.

by the

τοῖς

(tois)

Article - Dative Masculine Plural



The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

Jews.

Ἰουδαίοις

(Ioudaiois)

Adjective - Dative Masculine Plural



Jewish. From Iouda; Judaean, i.e. Belonging to Jehudah.

But

δὲ

(de)

Conjunction



A primary particle; but, and, etc.

now,

νῦν

(nyn)

Adverb



A primary particle of present time; 'now'; also as noun or adjective present or immediate.

My

ἐμὴ

(emē)

Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Nominative Feminine 1st Person Singular



My, mine. From the oblique cases of ego; my.

kingdom

βασιλεία

(basileia)

Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular



From basileus; properly, royalty, i.e. rule, or a realm.

is

ἔστιν

(estin)

Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular



I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

not

οὐκ

(ouk)

Adverb



No, not. Also ouk, and ouch a primary word; the absolute negative adverb; no or not.

of this realm.?

ἐντεῦθεν

(enteuthen)

Adverb



Hence, from this place, on this side and on that. From the same as enthade; hence; on both sides.

Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world.

(36)--The answer of Jesus is two-fold, declaring (1) in this verse, that He is not a King in the political sense; and (2) in John 18:37 , that He is a King in the moral sense. By "of this world" we are to understand that the nature and origin of His kingdom are not of this world, not that His kingdom will not extend in this world. (Comp. John 8:23 John 10:16 .) In the world's sense of king and kingdom, in the sense in which the Roman empire claimed to rule the world, He had no kingdom.

Then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews.--Better, then would My servants have been fighting. (Comp. John 19:16.) His "servants" are His disciples, who would be in this relation to Him if He were a temporal king, and the crowds such as those who had sought to make Him king (John 6:15), and had filled Jerusalem with the cry, "Hosanna: Blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord, the King of Israel" (John 12:13). One of His servants had drawn the sword (John 18:10), and, but that His will had checked the popular feeling, neither the Jewish officers nor the Roman cohort could have delivered Him to be crucified.

But now is my kingdom not from hence.--That is, "But, as a matter of fact, My kingdom is not from here." It was proved by His standing bound in the presence of the procurator. The clause has been strangely pressed into the service of millennial views by interpreting it, "But now My kingdom is not from hence. Hereafter it will be." For the true sense of "now," comp. John 8:40; John 9:41; John 15:22; John 15:24.

Verse 36.

Jesus answered

My kingdom

is not of this world.

he

ἐκ

of

If the kingdom that is mine were from this world,

would the servants

ὑπηρέται

that are mine fight

in order that I should not be delivered up

παροδοθῶ

to the Jews

ὑπηρέται

ἐκ τοῦ κόσμου τούτου

of

διάκονοι δοῦλοι

- then would my servants

ὑπηρέται

had

But now

νῦν

i.e. But seeing that it is so - my kingdom

is not from hence

ἐκ τοῦ κόσμου

ἐντεῦθεν

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- In reply to this challenge,- obviously assuming the fact that he was a king in a sense entirely different from that which had been maliciously suggested to Pilate -- the kingdom that is mine -Neither now nor at any future period will it derive its origin from this world. So far as Christ is King, his royal power and state are not furnished by earthly force, or fleshly ordinances, or physical energies, or material wealth, or imperial armies. The dominion that he will wield will be one over hearts and lives; the authority of the Lord Jesus cannot be arrested or overpowered by physical force. Most commentators justly regard this as a spiritual manifesto of the sources and quality of the kingdom of Christ, and a foreshadowing of the separation between the spiritual and secular power - a declaration that all effort to embody Christian laws and government in compulsory forms, and to defend them by penal sanctions and temporal force, is disloyalty to the royal rank and crown rights of the Lord Jesus Christ. Hengstenberg regards the assertion as precisely the reverse; sees in the passage, "rightly understood, the very opposite purpose. The kingdom that sprang directly from heaven must have absolute authority over all the earth, and it will not submit to be put into obscurity. The kingdoms of this world must become the kingdom of the Lord and his Anointed, and he shall reign for ever and ever." This is true, but not along the lines or with the machinery of earthly rule and authority. The influence and authority of Heaven works upon the spirit by truth and righteousness and peace, and thus transforms institutions, permeates society from the ground of the heart, modifies the relations between the members of a household, and transfigures those between a ruler and his subjects, between the master and his slaves, between labor and capital, and between man and man. Whenever it is triumphant, whenever the lives of kings and their peoples are sanctified by supreme obedience to Christ the King, then war will be impossible, all tyrannies and slaveries will be abolished, all malice and violence of monarchs or mobs will be at an end; then the wolfish and the lamblike nature will be at peace. Then all the means for enforcing the will of one against another will be done away. He will have put down all rule, authority, and power; formust reign, and he alone. This kingdom is not () "from," "out of," this world's methods or resources; does not begin from without and establish itself, or propagate or preserve itself, from the world, which is a rival, and is not to be coerced but drawn to itself. Like the individual disciple, the kingdom may be in the world, but notit. Christ proceeded,which it is not (mark the form of the condition), then, on that Supposition,, generally translated "officers"), with physical force,. The supposition that theof whom our Lord spoke were "the angels" (as Bengel, Lampe, Stier, and at one time Luthardt, imagined), is distinctly repudiated by the, "this present world." If it were the case, as it is not, then would my officers be, not a handful of disciples (whom he generally calls), but the servants who would be appropriate to my royal mission,be busily fighting that I should not be delivered up by the Roman power that is for the moment thrown over me like a shield, to the Jews, who are thirsting for my blood. The loud cry of hatred and vengeance may even at this moment have pierced the interior of the Praetorium, thus giving its force, if not form, to the sentence. Godet thinks our Lord was referring to the crowds who actually gathered round him on Palm Sunday, and not to hypothetical; but the force of the condition goes down deeper, and, moreover, such language might have awakened the suspicion that, after all, Jesusa political following, if he should choose to evoke it. Observe that this entire severance between "the Jews" and the friends of Christ, which, though occasionally adopted by the evangelist, is not the customary method of our Lord. The moment at which the Savior speaks gives great significance to the phraseology (observe John 4:22 John 18:20 ; the only other occasions on which the Lord used this phrase to denote his own people).(the, cf. John 9:41 and John 15:22, is logical, not temporal);, he adds,. Theis equivalent to, and suggests that the kingdom derives its re sources and its energies "from the upper world, from above."Alphabetical: another answered arrest as be But by fight fighting from handed I If is it Jesus Jews kingdom My not now of over place prevent realm said servants so that the then this to were world would