πρεσβυτέρων

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 πρεσβυτέρων

   pres-by-TE-rôn

   elders
2. sentence🔊 Καὶ εὐθὺς ἔτι αὐτοῦ λαλοῦντος παραγίνεται Ἰούδας εἷς τῶν δώδεκα καὶ μετʼ αὐτοῦ ὄχλος μετὰ μαχαιρῶν καὶ ξύλων παρὰ τῶν ἀρχιερέων καὶ τῶν γραμματέων καὶ τῶν πρεσβυτέρων

   KAI eu-THYS E-ti au-TOU la-LOUN-tos pa-ra-GI-ne-tai i-OU-das HEIS tôn DO-de-ka KAI met au-TOU O-khlos me-TA ma-khai-RÔN KAI XY-lôn pa-RA tôn ar-khi-e-RE-ôn KAI tôn gram-ma-TE-ôn KAI tôn pres-by-TE-rôn

   And immediately still of him speaking comes Judas one of the twelve and with him crowd with swords and clubs from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders

Exegesis

The final prepositional phrase para ton archiereon kai ton grammateon kai ton presbyteron {παρὰ τῶν ἀρχιερέων καὶ τῶν γραμματέων καὶ τῶν πρεσβυτέρων | parà tôn archieréōn kaí tôn grammatéōn kaí tôn presbutérōn} uses para with the genitive to indicate origin, assigning responsibility for the armed crowd to the three key groups of Jerusalem leadership (chief priests, scribes, elders). In translation, the genitive absolute is rendered as a temporal clause (“while He was still speaking/as Jesus was still talking”), and the prepositional phrase with para is expressed with “from” and a plural subject (“they came from”) to make the source relationship explicit in natural English while preserving the Greek sequence of agents and actions.