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Title -> Philip Went and Told Andrew, and Andrew and Philip Went and Told Jesus
The text is, ἔρχεται ὁ Φίλιππος καὶ λέγει τῷ Ἀνδρέᾳ, ἔρχεται Ἀνδρέας καὶ Φίλιππος καὶ λέγουσιν τῷ Ἰησοῦ
ἔρχεται: third person, singular, present, middle, indicative verb -> goes CER* “went”
ὁ -> masculine, singular, nominative article -> theNRIEH**
Φίλιππος -> masculine, singular, nominative, proper noun -> Philip
καὶ -> coordinating conjunction -> and
λέγει -> third person, singular, present, active, indicative verb -> tells CER “told”
τῷ -> masculine, singular, dative article -> the NRIEH
Ἀνδρέᾳ -> masculine, singular, dative noun -> Andrew
ἔρχεται -> third person, singular, present, active, indicative verb -> go CER “went”
Ἀνδρέας -> masculine, singular, nominative, proper noun -> Andrew
καὶ -> coordinating conjunction -> and
Φίλιππος -> masculine, singular, nominative, proper noun -> Philip
καὶ -> coordinating conjunction -> and
λέγουσιν -> third person, plural, present, active, indicative verb -> tell CER “told”
τῷ -> masculine, singular, dative article -> the NRIEH
Ἰησοῦ -> masculine, singular, dative, proper noun -> Jesus
The meaning of this verse is,
Philip went and told Andrew, and Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus.
*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”.
**NRIEH: For the sake of clarity the word is translated into English, but to avoid such odd constructions as applying a definite article (“the”) to a substantive sufficiently determined by its being a proper noun, or by the use of a qualifier other than the definite article. An example would be the basic translation “Peter said to the Jesus”; the word “the” is completely unnecessary. There are many examples of this in the New Testament. The designation NRIEH is equivalent to “Not Rendered Into English Here”.
ἔρχεται ὁ Φίλιππος καὶ λέγει τῷ Ἀνδρέᾳ, ἔρχεται Ἀνδρέας καὶ Φίλιππος καὶ λέγουσιν τῷ Ἰησοῦ (John 12:22) by Dennis Glover is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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