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Title: So the Pharisees Said to One Another, “You Come to a Knowledge that Gains Nothing”
The text is, “οἱ οὖν Φαρισαῖοι εἶπαν πρὸς ἑαυτούς· θεωρεῖτε ὅτι οὐκ ὠφελεῖτε οὐδέν· ἴδε ὁ κόσμος ὀπίσω αὐτοῦ ἀπῆλθεν”.
“οἱ”: masculine, plural, nominative article meaning “the”.
“οὖν”: coordinating inferential conjunction meaning “so”.
“Φαρισαῖοι”: masculine, plural, nominative, proper noun meaning “Pharisees”.
“εἶπαν”: third person, plural, aorist, active, indicative verb meaning “said”.
“πρὸς”: preposition taking the accusative for its object word and meaning “to”.
“ἑαυτούς”: third person, masculine, plural, accusative, reflexive pronoun meaning “one another”.
“θεωρεῖτε”: second person, plural, present, active, indicative verb meaning “you come to a knowledge”.
“ὅτι”: subordinating complementary conjunction meaning “that”.
“οὐκ”: negative particle meaning “nothing”.
“ὠφελεῖτε”: second person, plural, present, active, indicative verb meaning “gains”.
“οὐδέν”: neuter, singular, accusative, indefinite adjective meaning “nothing”.
“ἴδε”: interjection meaning “pay attention”.
“ὁ”: masculine, singular, nominative article meaning “the”.
“κόσμος”: masculine, singular, nominative noun meaning “world”.
“ὀπίσω”: improper preposition taking the genitive for its object word and meaning “after”.
“αὐτοῦ”: third person, personal, masculine, singular, genitive pronoun meaning “him”.
“ἀπῆλθεν”: third person, plural, aorist, active indicative verb meaning “has gone”.
The meaning of this verse is,
So the Pharisees said to one another, “You come to a knowledge that gains nothing. Nothing! Pay attention! The world has gone after him.”
οἱ οὖν Φαρισαῖοι εἶπαν πρὸς ἑαυτούς· θεωρεῖτε ὅτι οὐκ ὠφελεῖτε οὐδέν (John 12:19) by Dennis Glover is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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