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Interrogative pronoun posos (how much, how many?) in the New Testament
(Translation from NRSV for the New Testament with a few modifications for a more literal meaning)
Matthew
| 6: 23 | but if your eye is unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how much (posos) is the darkness! |
| 7: 11 | If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much (posos) more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask him! |
| 10: 25 | it is enough for the disciple to be like the teacher, and the slave like the master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much (posos) more will they malign those of his household! |
| 12: 12 | How much (posos) more valuable is a human being than a sheep! So it is lawful to do good on the sabbath." |
| 15: 34 | Jesus asked them, "How many (posos) loaves have you?" They said, "Seven, and a few small fish." |
| 16: 9 | Do you still not perceive? Do you not remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many (posos) baskets you gathered? |
| 16: 10 | Or the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many (posos) baskets you gathered? |
| 27: 13 | Then Pilate said to him, "Do you not hear how many (posos) accusations they make against you?" |
Mark
| 6: 38 | And he said to them, "How many (posos) loaves have you? Go and see." When they had found out, they said, "Five, and two fish." |
| 8: 5 | He asked them, "How many (posos) loaves do you have?" They said, "Seven." |
| 8: 19 | When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many (posos) baskets full of broken pieces did you collect?" They said to him, "Twelve." |
| 8: 20 | "And the seven for the four thousand, how many (posos) baskets full of broken pieces did you collect?" And they said to him, "Seven." |
| 9: 21 | Jesus asked the father, "How much (posos) time has this been happening to him?" And he said, "From childhood. |
| 15: 4 | Pilate asked him again, "Have you no answer? See how many (posos) charges they bring against you." |
Luke
| 11: 13 | If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much (posos) more will the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!" |
| 12: 24 | Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much (posos) more value are you than the birds! |
| 12: 28 | But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much (posos) more will he clothe you - you of little faith! |
| 15: 17 | But when he came to himself he said, 'How many (posos) of my father's hired hands have bread enough and to spare, but here I am dying of hunger! |
| 16: 5 | So, summoning his master's debtors one by one, he asked the first, 'How much (posos) do you owe my master?' |
| 16: 7 | Then he asked another, 'And how much (posos) do you owe?' He replied, 'A hundred containers of wheat.' He said to him, 'Take your bill and make it eighty.' |
Acts
| 21: 20 | When they heard it, they praised God. Then they said to him, "You see, brother, how many (posos) thousands of believers there are among the Jews, and they are all zealous for the law. |
2 Corinthians
| 7: 11 | For see what earnestness this godly grief has produced in you, how much (posos) eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what zeal, what punishment! At every point you have proved yourselves guiltless in the matter. |
Romans
| 11: 12 | Now if their stumbling means riches for the world, and if their defeat means riches for Gentiles, how much (posos) more will their full inclusion mean! |
| 11: 24 | For if you have been cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much (posos) more will these natural branches be grafted back into their own olive tree. |
Philemon
| 1: 16 | no longer as a slave but more than a slave, a beloved brother - especially to me but how much (posos) more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord. |
Hebrews
| 9: 14 | how much (posos) more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to worship the living God! |
| 10: 29 | How much (posos) worse punishment do you think will be deserved by those who have spurned the Son of God, profaned the blood of the covenant by which they were sanctified, and outraged the Spirit of grace? |
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