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Title: Because of This, His Parents Said, “He is of Age. You Talk to Him.”
The text is, “διὰ τοῦτο οἱ γονεῖς αὐτοῦ εἶπαν ὅτι ἡλικίαν ἔχει, αὐτὸν ἐπερωτήσατε”.
“διὰ”: preposition taking the accusative for its object word and meaning “because of”.
“τοῦτο”: neuter, singular, accusative, demonstrative pronoun meaning “this”.
“οἱ”: masculine, plural, nominative article meaning “the” but it is not rendered into English here.
“γονεῖς”: masculine, plural, nominative noun meaning “parents”.
“αὐτοῦ”: third person, personal, masculine, singular, genitive pronoun meaning “his”.
“εἶπαν”: third person, plural, aorist, active, indicative verb meaning “said”.
“ὅτι”: subordinating conjunction meaning “that”.
“ἡλικίαν”: feminine, singular, accusative noun meaning “of age”.
“ἔχει”: third person, singular, present, active, indicative verb meaning “he is”.
“αὐτὸν”: third person, masculine, singular, accusative pronoun meaning “to him”.
“ἐπερωτήσατε”: second person, plural, aorist, active, imperative verb meaning “you talk”.
The meaning of this verse is,
Because of this, his parents said that “He is of age. You talk to him.”
διὰ τοῦτο οἱ γονεῖς αὐτοῦ εἶπαν ὅτι ἡλικίαν ἔχει, αὐτὸν ἐπερωτήσατε (John 9:23) by Dennis Glover is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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