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Matthew 9:17 ἀμφότεροι both

Neither do men pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst, the wine will spill, and the wineskins will be ruined. Instead, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.”

Here: Both: in the picture, the new wine and the new skins. The word is masculine to agree with both nouns, which are masculine in Greek.

Matthew 13:30 ἀμφότερα both

Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat into my barn.’”

Here: Both kinds of plant, wheat and darnel. The grammatical gender is neuter because it refers to plants, not to people yet.

Matthew 15:14 ἀμφότεροι both

Disregard them! They are blind guides. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”

Here: The sting of the saying: the guide does not escape. Leader and led share the same fate.

Luke 1:6 ἀμφότεροι both

Both of them were righteous in the sight of God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and decrees of the Lord.

Here: This puts Elizabeth on the same level as her priest husband. The couple's faithfulness is shared. 'Both' comes back in verse 7, where both are also old.

Luke 1:7 ἀμφότεροι both

But they had no children, because Elizabeth was barren, and they were both well along in years.

Here: The same word as in v. 6 ('both were righteous'). Luke pairs the two 'boths' on purpose: both were righteous, and both were old.

Luke 5:7 ἀμφότερα both

So they signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them, and they came and filled both boats so full that they began to sink.

Luke 6:39 ἀμφότεροι both

Jesus also told them a parable: “Can a blind man lead a blind man? Will they not both fall into a pit?

Here: The key point: the guide is not spared. The disaster takes leader and follower together.

Luke 7:42 ἀμφοτέροις to both

When they were unable to repay him, he forgave both of them. Which one, then, will love him more?”

Acts 8:38 ἀμφότεροι both

And he gave orders to stop the chariot. Then both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water, and Philip baptized him.

Here: Stresses that both men went down. The evangelist on foot and the royal official went into the water together.

Acts 19:16 ἀμφοτέρων them all

Then the man with the evil spirit jumped on them and overpowered them all. The attack was so violent that they ran out of the house naked and wounded.

Acts 23:8 ἀμφότερα.¶ both.

For the Sadducees say that there is neither a resurrection nor angels nor spirits, but the Pharisees acknowledge them all.

Ephesians 2:14 ἀμφότερα both

For He Himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has torn down the dividing wall of hostility

Here: Neuter, literally "both things," probably speaking of the two groups as two categories or blocs; in v. 15 Paul shifts to the masculine "the two" as people. Who the two are is plain from context: Jews and Gentiles.

Ephesians 2:16 ἀμφοτέρους both

and reconciling both of them to God in one body through the cross, by which He put to death their hostility.

Here: "The both of them": Jew and Gentile. The object of the reconciling is two peoples together, not one individual at a time. The same word appears in v.14 ("made both one") and v.18 ("we both have access").

Ephesians 2:18 ἀμφότεροι both

For through Him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.

Here: The key word of the paragraph (2:14 'made both one', 2:16 'reconcile both'). Its position after the verb stresses it: we have the access, *both of us*. Not every individual separately, but two former rival peoples together.