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Title: His Disciples Did Not Understand These Things Formerly
The text is, “ταῦτα οὐκ ἔγνωσαν αὐτοῦ οἱ μαθηταὶ τὸ πρῶτον, ἀλλ’ ὅτε ἐδοξάσθη Ἰησοῦς τότε ἐμνήσθησαν ὅτι ταῦτα ἦν ἐπ’ αὐτῷ γεγραμμένα καὶ ταῦτα ἐποίησαν αὐτῷ”.
“ταῦτα”: neuter, plural, accusative, demonstrative pronoun meaning “these things”.
“οὐκ”: negative particle meaning “not”.
“ἔγνωσαν”: third person, plural, aorist, active, indicative verb meaning “did understand”.
“αὐτοῦ”: third person, personal, masculine, singular, genitive pronoun meaning “his”.
“οἱ”: masculine, plural, nominative article meaning “the” but it is not rendered into English here.
“μαθηταὶ”: masculine, plural, nominative noun meaning “disciples”.
“τὸ”: neuter, singular, accusative article meaning “the” but but it is not rendered into English here.
“πρῶτον”: adverb meaning “formerly”.
“ἀλλ’”: coordinating adversative conjunction meaning “but”.
“ὅτε”: subordinating temporal conjunction meaning “when”.
“ἐδοξάσθη”: third person, singular, aorist, passive, indicative verb meaning “was glorified”.
“Ἰησοῦς”: masculine, singular, nominative, proper noun meaning “Jesus”.
“τότε”: temporal adverb meaning “then”.
“ἐμνήσθησαν”: third person, plural, aorist, passive, indicative verb meaning “they were reminded”.
“ὅτι”: subordinating complementary conjunction meaning “that”.
“ταῦτα”: neuter, plural, nominative, demonstrative pronoun meaning “these things”.
“ἦν”: third person, singular, imperfect, indicative verb meaning “had been”.
“ἐπ’”: preposition taking the dative for its object word and meaning “about”.
“αὐτῷ”: third person, personal, masculine, singular, dative pronoun meaning “him”.
“γεγραμμένα”: perfect, passive, participial, neuter, singular, nominative verb meaning “being written”.
“καὶ”: coordinating conjunction meaning “and”.
“ταῦτα”: neuter, plural, accusative, demonstrative pronoun meaning “them”.
“ἐποίησαν”: third person, plural, aorist, active, indicative verb meaning “they did”.
“αὐτῷ”: third person, personal, masculine, singular, dative pronoun meaning “to him”.
The meaning of this verse is,
His disciples did not understand these things formerly, but when Jesus was glorified then they were reminded that these things had been being written about him and that they had done these things to him.
ταῦτα οὐκ ἔγνωσαν αὐτοῦ οἱ μαθηταὶ τὸ πρῶτον (John 12:16) by Dennis Glover is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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