ἔρχεται οὖν καὶ Σίμων Πέτρος ἀκολουθῶν αὐτῷ καὶ εἰσῆλθεν εἰς τὸ μνημεῖον, καὶ θεωρεῖ τὰ ὀθόνια κείμενα (John 20:6)

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Title:  And Then Simon Peter Came Following Him and He Went to the Tomb and Saw the Cloths Lying

The text is, “ἔρχεται οὖν καὶ Σίμων Πέτρος ἀκολουθῶν αὐτῷ καὶ εἰσῆλθεν εἰς τὸ μνημεῖον, καὶ θεωρεῖ τὰ ὀθόνια κείμενα”.

ἔρχεται -> third person, singular, present, middle, indicative verb -> comes CER* came

οὖν -> coordinating inferential conjunction -> then

καὶ -> coordinating additive conjunction -> and

Σίμων -> masculine, singular, nominative, proper noun -> Simon

Πέτρος -> masculine, singular, nominative, proper noun -> Peter

ἀκολουθῶν -> present, active, participial, masculine, singular, nominative verb -> following

αὐτῷ -> third person, personal, masculine, singular, dative pronoun -> him

καὶ-> coordinating additive conjunction -> and

εἰσῆλθεν -> third person, singular, aorist, active, indicative verb -> he went

εἰς -> preposition taking the accusative for its object word -> to

τὸ -> neuter, singular, accusative article -> the

μνημεῖον -> neuter, singular, accusative noun -> tomb

καὶ -> coordinating additive conjunction -> and

θεωρεῖ -> third person, singular, present, active, indicative verb -> sees CER saw

τὰ -> neuter, plural, accusative article -> the

ὀθόνια -> neuter, plural, accusative noun -> cloths

κείμενα -> present, active, participial, neuter, plural, accusative verb -> lying

The meaning of this verse is,

And then Simon Peter came following him, and he went to the tomb and saw the cloths lying.

*CER:  indicates a non-literal, but good translation.  In the first example here, the verb “ἔρχεται” is present tense, which in the indicative mood often can be rendered in the aorist tense, since it expresses linear action not in the present but at some point in the past.  The designation CER is equivalent to “Contextual English Rendering”.

ἔρχεται οὖν καὶ Σίμων Πέτρος ἀκολουθῶν αὐτῷ καὶ εἰσῆλθεν εἰς τὸ μνημεῖον, καὶ θεωρεῖ τὰ ὀθόνια κείμενα (John 20:6) by Dennis Glover is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.