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Title: And Jesus Said, “For Judgment I Came Into This World”
The text is, “Καὶ εἶπεν ὁ Ἰησοῦς· εἰς κρίμα ἐγὼ εἰς τὸν κόσμον τοῦτον ἦλθον, ἵνα οἱ μὴ βλέποντες βλέπωσιν καὶ οἱ βλέποντες τυφλοὶ γένωνται”.
“Καὶ”: coordinating conjunction meaning “and”.
“εἶπεν”: third person, singular, aorist, active, indicative verb meaning “said”.
“ὁ”: masculine, singular, nominative article meaning “the” but it is not rendered into English here.
“Ἰησοῦς”: masculine, singular, nominative, proper noun meaning “Jesus”.
“εἰς”: preposition taking the accusative for its object word and meaning”for”.
“κρίμα”: neuter, singular, accusative noun meaning “judgment”.
“ἐγὼ”: first person, personal, singular, nominative pronoun meaning “I”.
“εἰς”: preposition taking the accusative for its object word and meaning “into”.
“τὸν”: masculine, singular, accusative article meaning “the” but it is not rendered into English here.
“κόσμον”: masculine, singular, accusative noun meaning “world”.
“τοῦτον”: masculine, singular, accusative, demonstrative pronoun meaning “this”.
“ἦλθον”: first person, singular, aorist, active, indicative verb meaning “came”.
“ἵνα”: subordinating purposive conjunction meaning “that” or “so that”.
“οἱ”: masculine, plural, nominative article meaning “the”.
“μὴ”: negative particle meaning “not”.
“βλέποντες”: present, active, participial, masculine, plural, nominative verb meaning “ones seeing”.
“βλέπωσιν”: third person, plural, present, active, subjunctive verb meaning “might see”.
“καὶ”: coordinating conjunction meaning “and”.
“οἱ”: masculine, plural, nominative article meaning “the”.
“βλέποντες”: present, active, participial, masculine plural, nominative verb meaning “ones seeing”.
“τυφλοὶ”: masculine, plural, nominative adjective meaning “blind”.
“γένωνται”: third person, plural, aorist, middle
The meaning of this verse is,
And Jesus said, “For judgment I came into this world, so that the ones not seeing might see, and the ones seeing might become blind.”
Καὶ εἶπεν ὁ Ἰησοῦς· εἰς κρίμα ἐγὼ εἰς τὸν κόσμον τοῦτον ἦλθον (John 9:39) by Dennis Glover is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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