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Title: For You Always Have the Poor With You
The text is, “τοὺς πτωχοὺς γὰρ πάντοτε ἔχετε μεθ’ ἑαυτῶν ἐμὲ δὲ οὐ πάντοτε ἔχετε”.
“τοὺς”: masculine, plural, accusative article meaning “the”.
“πτωχοὺς”: masculine, plural, accusative noun meaning “poor”.
“γὰρ”: coordinating explanatory conjunction meaning “for”
“πάντοτε”: temporal adverb meaning “always”.
“ἔχετε”: second person, plural, present, active, indicative verb meaning “you have”.
“μεθ’”: preposition taking the genitive for its object word and meaning “with”.
“ἑαυτῶν”: third person, reflexive, masculine, plural, genitive pronoun meaning “you”.
“ἐμὲ”: first person, personal, singular, accusative pronoun meaning “me”.
“δὲ”: coordinating conjunction meaning “but”.
“οὐ”: negative particle meaning “not”.
“πάντοτε”: temporal adverb meaning “always”.
“ἔχετε”: second person, plural, present, active, indicative verb meaning “you do have”.
The meaning of this verse is,
For you always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me.”
τοὺς πτωχοὺς γὰρ πάντοτε ἔχετε μεθ’ ἑαυτῶν (John 12:8) by Dennis Glover is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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