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Title -> But the One Doing the Truth
The text is, “ὁ δὲ ποιῶν τὴν ἀλήθειαν ἔρχεται πρὸς τὸ φῶς, ἵνα φανερωθῇ αὐτοῦ τὰ ἔργα ὅτι ἐν θεῷ ἐστιν εἰργασμένα”.
ὁ -> masculine, singular, nominative article -> he
δὲ -> coordinating conjunction -> but:
ποιῶν -> present, active, participial, masculine, singular, nominative -> doing
τὴν -> feminine, singular, accusative article -> the
ἀλήθειαν -> feminine, singular, accusative noun -> truth
ἔρχεται -> third person, singular, present, middle, indicative verb -> comes
πρὸς -> preposition taking the accusative for its object word -> to
τὸ -> neuter, singular, accusative article -> the
φῶς -> neuter, singular, accusative noun -> light
ἵνα -> subordinating conjunction of purpose -> that
φανερωθῇ -> third person, singular, aorist, passive, subjunctive verb -> might be seen
αὐτοῦ -> third person, personal, masculine, singular, genitive pronoun -> his
τὰ -> neuter, plural, nominative article -> the NRIEH**
ἔργα -> neuter, plural, nominative noun -> works
ὅτι -> subordinating conjunction -> that
ἐν -> preposition taking the dative for its object word -> in
θεῷ -> masculine, singular, dative noun -> God
ἐστιν -> third person, singular, present, indicative verb -> is
εἰργασμένα -> perfect, passive, participial, neuter, singular, nominative verb -> has been
The meaning of this verse is,
“But he doing the truth comes to the light that it might be seen that his works have been done in God.”
**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”.
ὁ δὲ ποιῶν τὴν ἀλήθειαν (John 3:21) by Dennis Glover is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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