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Title: The Jesus, Lifting Up His Eyes and Seeing
The text is, “Ἐπάρας οὖν τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς ὁ Ἰησοῦς καὶ θεασάμενος ὅτι πολὺς ὄχλος ἔρχεται πρὸς αὐτὸν λέγει πρὸς Φίλιππον· πόθεν ἀγοράσωμεν ἄρτους ἵνα φάγωσιν οὗτοι”.
“Ἐπάρας”: aorist, active, participial, masculine, singular, nominative verb meaning “lifting up”.
“οὖν”: coordinating inferential conjunction meaning “then”.
“τοὺς”: masculine, plural, accusative article meaning “the”.
“ὀφθαλμοὺς”: masculine, plural, accusative noun meaning “eyes”.
“ὁ”: masculine, singular, nominative article meaning “the” but it is not rendered into English here.
“Ἰησοῦς”: masculine, singular, nominative noun meaning “Jesus”.
“καὶ”: coordinating conjunction meaning “and”.
“θεασάμενος”: aorist, middle, participial, masculine, singular, nominative verb meaning “seeing”.
“ὅτι”: subordinating complementary conjunction meaning “that”.
“πολὺς”: masculine, singular, nominative adjective meaning “large”.
“ὄχλος”: masculine, singular, nominative noun meaning “a crowd”.
“ἔρχεται”: third person, singular, present, middle, indicative verb meaning “comes”.
“πρὸς”: preposition taking the accusative for its object word and meaning “to” or “toward”.
“αὐτὸν”: third person, personal, masculine, singular, accusative pronoun meaning “him”.
“λέγει”: third person, singular, present, active, indicative verb meaning “says”.
“πρὸς”: preposition taking the accusative for its object word and meaning “to” or “toward”.
“Φίλιππον”: masculine, singular, accusative, proper noun meaning “Philip”.
“πόθεν”: interrogative particle meaning “where”.
“ἀγοράσωμεν”: first person, plural, aorist, active, subjunctive verb meaning “might we buy”.
“ἄρτους”: masculine, plural, accusative noun meaning “bread”.
“ἵνα”: subordinating purposive conjunction meaning “that” or “in order that”.
“φάγωσιν”: third person, plural, aorist, active, subjunctive verb meaning “might eat”.
“οὗτοι”: masculine, plural, nominative, demonstrative pronoun meaning “they”.
The meaning of this verse is,
Then Jesus, lifting up his eyes and seeing that a large crowd comes toward him, says to Philip, “Where might we buy bread, in order that they might eat?”
Ἐπάρας οὖν τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς ὁ Ἰησοῦς καὶ θεασάμενος (John 6:5) by Dennis Glover is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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