Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
For before they were at enmity between themselves (prouphrxon gar en exqrai ontev prov eautouv). A periphrastic imperfect of the double compound prouperxw, an old verb, to exist (uparxw) previously (pro-), here alone in the N.T., with ontev (participle of eimi) added.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Luke 23:12:
Acts 4:27
Acts 8:9
Ephesians 2:15
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