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Title: Jesus answers, “You Will Lay Down Your Life For Me?”
The text is, “ἀποκρίνεται Ἰησοῦς· τὴν ψυχήν σου ὑπὲρ ἐμοῦ θήσεις; ἀμὴν ἀμὴν λέγω σοι, οὐ μὴ ἀλέκτωρ φωνήσῃ ἕως οὗ ἀρνήσῃ με τρίς”.
“ἀποκρίνεται”: third person, singular, present, middle, indicative verb meaning “answers”.
“Ἰησοῦς”: masculine, singular, nominative, proper noun meaning “Jesus”.
“τὴν”: feminine, singular, accusative article meaning “the” but it is not rendered into English here.
“ψυχήν”: feminine, singular, accusative noun meaning “life”.
“σου”: second person, personal, singular, genitive pronoun meaning “your”.
“ὑπὲρ”: preposition taking the genitive for its object word and meaning “for”.
“ἐμοῦ”: first person, personal, singular, genitive pronoun meaning “me”.
“θήσεις”: second person, singular, future, active, indicative verb meaning “you will lay down”.
“ἀμὴν”: Hebraicized particle meaning “truly”.
“ἀμὴν”: Hebraicized particle meaning “truly”.
“λέγω”: first person, singular, present, active, indicative verb meaning “I say”.
“σοι”: second person, personal, singular, dative pronoun meaning “to you”.
“οὐ”: negative particle meaning “never”.
“μὴ”: negative particle meaning “never”.
“ἀλέκτωρ”: masculine, singular, nominative noun meaning “a rooster”.
“φωνήσῃ”: third person, singular, aorist, active, subjunctive verb meaning “shall crow”.
“ἕως”: improper preposition taking the genitive for its object word and meaning “as long as” or “until”.
“οὗ”: neuter, singular, genitive, definite, relative pronoun meaning “until”.
“ἀρνήσῃ”: second person, singular, aorist, middle, subjunctive verb meaning “you shall have denied”.
“με”: first person, personal, singular, accusative pronoun meaning “me”.
“τρίς”: adverb meaning “thrice”.
The meaning of this verse is,
Jesus answers, “You will lay down your life for me? Truly, truly, I say to you, never! Never shall a rooster crow as long as until you shall have denied me thrice!”.
ἀποκρίνεται Ἰησοῦς· τὴν ψυχήν σου ὑπὲρ ἐμοῦ θήσεις (John 13:38) by Dennis Glover is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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