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Title: Now Jesus, Having Found a Donkey, Sat on It, Just as It is Having Been Written
The text is, “εὑρὼν δὲ ὁ Ἰησοῦς ὀνάριον ἐκάθισεν ἐπ’ αὐτό, καθώς ἐστιν γεγραμμένον”
“εὑρὼν”: aorist, active, participial, masculine, singular, nominative verb meaning “having found”.
“δὲ”: coordinating conjunction meaning “now”, “and”, or “but”.
“ὁ”: masculine, singular, nominative article meaning “the” but it is not rendered into English here.
“Ἰησοῦς”: masculine, singular, nominative, proper noun meaning “Jesus”.
“ὀνάριον”: neuter, singular, accusative noun meaning “a donkey”.
“ἐκάθισεν”: third person, singular, aorist, active, indicative verb meaning “sat”.
“ἐπ”: preposition taking the accusative and meaning “on” or “upon”.
“αὐτό”: third person, personal, neuter, singular, accusative pronoun meaning “it”.
“καθώς”: subordinating comparative conjunction meaning “just as”.
“ἐστιν”: third person, singular, present, indicative verb meaning “it is”.
“γεγραμμένον”: perfect, middle, participial, neuter, singular, nominative verb meaning “having been written”.
The meaning of this verse is,
Now Jesus, having found a donkey, sat on it, just as it is having been written,
εὑρὼν δὲ ὁ Ἰησοῦς ὀνάριον ἐκάθισεν ἐπ’ αὐτό, καθώς ἐστιν γεγραμμένον (John 12:14) by Dennis Glover is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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