παρακληθήσονται. (paraklethesontai) in Matthew 5:4: Verb Third Person Plural Future Passive Indicative
παρακληθήσονται. (paraklethesontai) in Matthew 5:4
Textual Witness
The witness reads παρακληθήσονται. in Matthew 5:4.
How The Form Affects Interpretation
The future passive indicative makes comfort the promised reason for the blessing.
How To Communicate It
Use it to show that the Beatitude rests on promised comfort, not on mourning by itself.
What Not To Say
- Grammatical form should serve context, not override it.
- Keep the promise attached to those who mourn.
- Do not infer timing from future tense alone.
- Do not detach the comfort promise from Jesus' Beatitude.
- Do not reduce comfort to mere sentiment apart from the kingdom setting.
What Does The Label Mean?
Verb: the form names an action or state and functions as a finite verbal form in its clause.
Future: presents the action as expected or promised from the standpoint of the clause. Context decides the exact force.
Passive: presents the mourners named in the second Beatitude as receiving the action or promised outcome.
Indicative: presents the verbal idea as an assertion in the clause.
Third person: the form speaks about the named group rather than directly addressing the reader.
Not applicable: this finite verb form is not using noun case to mark its clause role.
Plural: the number should be read from this occurrence, not generalized beyond the clause.
Not applicable: this finite verb form does not use grammatical gender.
What The Form Does In This Verse
The mourners named in the second Beatitude
Jesus' comfort promise in Matthew 5:4
States the promised outcome for those who mourn.
Do not use passive voice alone to settle the timing, means, or full agency of comfort.
How Much The Form Matters Here
High: The verb carries the promise attached to mourning.
Future passive promise. states what will happen to the mourners. Attached to the mourners named in the second Beatitude. Governed by Jesus' comfort promise in Matthew 5:4. Read as the promised result within the Beatitude.
What does Jesus promise to those who mourn? They will be comforted.
Direct: The form directly supports will be comforted.
The passive form presents comfort received, but context must govern how agency is explained.
How The Interpretation Is Derived
The witness reads παρακληθήσονται. in Matthew 5:4.
The lemma παρακαλέω carries the gloss "I summon, entreat, admonish, comfort", and here it names being comforted or encouraged.
The future passive indicative follows the causal marker and gives the reason the mourners are blessed.
Those who mourn are blessed because comfort is promised to them.
The form fits the Beatitudes' pattern of present lowliness and promised kingdom reversal.
Use it to show that the Beatitude rests on promised comfort, not on mourning by itself.
Do not make the morphology answer every question about when or how comfort comes.