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Title: The Man Answered and Said to Them
The text is, “ἀπεκρίθη ὁ ἄνθρωπος καὶ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς ἐν τούτῳ γὰρ τὸ θαυμαστόν ἐστιν, ὅτι ὑμεῖς οὐκ οἴδατε πόθεν ἐστίν καὶ ἤνοιξέν μου τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς”.
“ἀπεκρίθη”: third person, singular, aorist, passive, indicative verb meaning “answered”.
“ὁ”: masculine, singular, nominative article meaning “the”.
“ἄνθρωπος”: masculine, singular, nominative noun meaning “man”.
“καὶ”: coordinating conjunction meaning “and”.
“εἶπεν”: third person, singular, aorist, active, indicative verb meaning “said”.
“αὐτοῖς”: third person, personal, masculine, plural, dative pronoun meaning “to them”.
“ἐν”: preposition taking the dative for its object word and meaning “in”.
“τούτῳ”: neuter, singular, dative, demonstrative pronoun meaning “this”.
“γὰρ”: coordinating explanatory conjunction meaning “indeed”.
“τὸ”: neuter, singular, nominative article meaning “the”.
“θαυμαστόν”: neuter, singular, nominative noun meaning “amazing”.
“ἐστιν”: third person, singular, present, indicative verb meaning “is”.
“ὅτι”: subordinating complementary conjunction meaning “that”.
“ὑμεῖς”: second person, personal, plural, nominative pronoun meaning “you”.
“οὐκ”: negative particle meaning “not”.
“οἴδατε”: second person, plural, perfect, active, indicative verb meaning “do know”.
“πόθεν”: interrogative particle meaning “from where”.
“ἐστίν”: third person, singular, present, indicative verb meaning “he is”.
“καὶ”: coordinating adversative conjunction meaning “and yet”.
“ἤνοιξέν”: third person, singular, aorist, active, indicative verb meaning “he opened”.
“μου”: first person, personal, singular, genitive pronoun meaning “my”.
“τοὺς”: masculine, plural, accusative article meaning “the” but it is not rendered into English here.
“ὀφθαλμούς”: masculine, plural, accusative noun meaning “eyes”.
The meaning of this verse is,
The man answered and said to them, “The amazing thing* in this is, you do not know from where he is, and yet he opened my eyes.”
*thing is supplied to clarify the text.
ἀπεκρίθη ὁ ἄνθρωπος καὶ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς (John 9:30) by Dennis Glover is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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