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Title: Others Were Saying, “This is the Christ”
The text is, “ἄλλοι ἔλεγον· οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ χριστός, οἱ δὲ ἔλεγον· μὴ γὰρ ἐκ τῆς Γαλιλαίας ὁ χριστὸς ἔρχεται”.
“ἄλλοι”: masculine, plural, nominative, demonstrative adjective meaning “others”.
“ἔλεγον”: third person, plural, imperfect, active, indicative verb meaning “were saying”.
“οὗτός”: masculine, singular, nominative, demonstrative pronoun meaning “this”.
“ἐστιν”: third person, singular, present, indicative verb meaning “is”.
“ὁ”: masculine, singular, nominative article meaning “the”.
“χριστός”: masculine, singular, nominative noun meaning “Christ”.
“οἱ”: masculine, plural, nominative article meaning “the”.
“δὲ”: coordinating conjunction meaning “but”.
“ἔλεγον”: third person, plural, imperfect, active, indicative verb meaning “some were saying”.
“μὴ”: negative particle meaning “not”.
“γὰρ”: coordinating explanatory conjunction meaning “but”.
“ἐκ”: preposition taking the genitive for its object word and meaning “from”.
“τῆς”: feminine, singular, genitive article meaning “the” but it is not rendered into English here.
“Γαλιλαίας”: feminine, singular, genitive, proper noun meaning “Galilee”.
“ὁ”: masculine, singular, nominative article meaning “the”.
“χριστὸς”: masculine, singular, nominative noun meaning “Christ”.
“ἔρχεται”: third person, singular, present, middle, indicative verb meaning “is coming”.
The meaning of this verse is,
Others were saying, “This is the Christ.” But some were saying, “Is not the Christ coming from Galilee?”
ἄλλοι ἔλεγον· οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ χριστός (John 7:41) by Dennis Glover is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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