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Made answer (hupolabōn). Second aorist active participle of hupolambanō (See note on Luk 7:43), to take up literally, and then in thought and speech, old verb, but in this sense of interrupting in talk only in the N.T.
Was going down (katebainen). Imperfect active describing the journey.
Fell among robbers (lēistais periepesen). Second aorist ingressive active indicative of peripiptō, old verb with associative instrumental case, to fall among and to be encompassed by (peri, around), to be surrounded by robbers. A common experience to this day on the road to Jericho. The Romans placed a fort on this “red and bloody way.” These were bandits, not petty thieves.
Stripped (ekdusantes). Of his clothing as well as of his money, the meanest sort of robbers.
Beat him (plēgas epithentes). Second aorist active participle of epitithēmi, a common verb. Literally, “placing strokes or blows” (plēgas, plagues) upon him. See Luk 12:48; Act 16:23; and Rev 15:1, Rev 15:6, and Rev 15:8 for “plagues.”
Half-dead (hēmithanē). Late word from hēmi, half, and thnēskō, to die. Only here in the N.T. Vivid picture of the robbery.