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Title-> And Falling Short of Win
The text is, “καὶ ὑστερήσαντος οἴνου λέγει ἡ μήτηρ τοῦ Ἰησοῦ πρὸς αὐτόν· οἶνον οὐκ ἔχουσιν.”
καὶ-> coordinating additive conjunction -> and
ὑστερήσαντος-> aorist, active, participial, masculine, singular, genitive verb -> falling short
οἴνου-> masculine, singular, genitive noun -> of wine
λέγει-> third person, singular, present, active, indicative verb -> says CER* “said”
ἡ-> feminine, singular, nominative article -> the
μήτηρ-> feminine, singular, nominative noun -> mother
τοῦ-> masculine, singular, genitive article -> the NRIEH**
Ἰησοῦ-> masculine, singular, genitive noun -> of Jesus
πρὸς preposition taking the accusative to its object word, -> to
αὐτόν-> third person, personal, masculine, singular, accusative pronoun -> him
οἶνον-> masculine, singular, accusative noun -> wine
οὐκ-> negative particle -> not
ἔχουσιν-> third person, plural, plural, active, indicative -> they do have
The translation of this verse is,
and falling short of wine, the mother of Jesus says to him, “They do not have wine.”’
*CER: indicates a non-literal, but good translation. In the first example here, the verb “ἔρχεται” is present tense, which in the indicative mood often can be rendered in the aorist tense, since it expresses linear action not in the present but at some point in the past. The designation CER is equivalent to “Contextual English Rendering”.</span>
**NRIEH: For the sake of clarity the word is translated into English, but to avoid such odd constructions as applying a definite article (“the”) to a substantive sufficiently determined by its being a proper noun, or by the use of a qualifier other than the definite article. An example would be the basic translation “Peter said to the Jesus”; the word “the” is completely unnecessary. There are many examples of this in the New Testament. The designation NRIEH is equivalent to “Not Rendered Into English Here”.
καὶ ὑστερήσαντος οἴνου (John 2:3) by Dennis Glover is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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