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Title: Jesus Answered, “If I Glorify Myself, My Glory is Nothing”
The text is, “ἀπεκρίθη Ἰησοῦς ἐὰν ἐγὼ δοξάσω ἐμαυτόν ἡ δόξα μου οὐδέν ἐστιν ἔστιν ὁ πατήρ μου ὁ δοξάζων με ὃν ὑμεῖς λέγετε ὅτι θεὸς ἡμῶν ἐστιν”.
“ἀπεκρίθη”: third person, aorist, passive, indicative verb meaning “answered”.
“Ἰησοῦς”: masculine, singular, nominative, proper noun meaning “Jesus”.
“ἐὰν”: subordinating conditional conjunction meaning “if”.
“ἐγὼ”: first person, personal, singular, nominative pronoun meaning “I”.
“δοξάσω”: first person, singular, aorist, active, subjunctive verb meaning “should glorify”.
“ἐμαυτόν”: first person, masculine, singular, accusative, reflexive pronoun meaning “myself”.
“ἡ”: feminine, singular, nominative article meaning “the” but it is not rendered into English here.
“δόξα”: feminine, singular, nominative noun meaning “glory”.
“μου”: first person, personal, singular, genitive pronoun meaning “my”.
“οὐδέν”: neuter, singular, nominative, indefinite pronoun meaning “nothing”.
“ἐστιν”: third person, singular, present, indicative verb meaning “is”.
“ἔστιν”: third person, singular, present, indicative verb meaning “it is”.
“ὁ”: masculine, singular, nominative article meaning “the” but it is not rendered into English here.
“πατήρ”: masculine, singular, nominative noun meaning “Father”.
“μου”: first person, personal, singular, genitive pronoun meaning “my”.
“ὁ”: masculine, singular, nominative article meaning “the”but it is not rendered into English here.
“δοξάζων”: present, active, participial, masculine, singular, nominative verb meaning “glorifying”.
“με”: first person, personal, singular, accusative pronoun meaning “me”.
“ὃν”: masculine, singular, accusative, definite, relative pronoun meaning “whom”.
“ὑμεῖς”: second person, personal, plural, nominative pronoun meaning “you”.
“λέγετε”: second person, plural, present, active, indicative verb meaning “say”.
“ὅτι”: subordinating complementary conjunction meaning “that”.
“θεὸς”: masculine, singular, nominative noun meaning “God”.
“ἡμῶν”: first person, personal, plural, genitive pronoun meaning “our”.
“ἐστιν”: third person, singular, present, indicative verb meaning “he is”.
The meaning of this verse is,
Jesus answered, “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father, glorifying me, of whom you say that ‘He is our God’.”
ἀπεκρίθη Ἰησοῦς ἐὰν ἐγὼ δοξάσω ἐμαυτόν ἡ δόξα μου οὐδέν ἐστιν (John 8:54) by Dennis Glover is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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