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Title: And They Were Saying, “Is This not Jesus the Son of Joseph”
The text is, “καὶ ἔλεγον· οὐχ οὗτός ἐστιν Ἰησοῦς ὁ υἱὸς Ἰωσήφ, οὗ ἡμεῖς οἴδαμεν τὸν πατέρα καὶ τὴν μητέρα; πῶς νῦν λέγει ὅτι ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ καταβέβηκα”
“καὶ”: coordinating conjunction meaning “and”.
“ἔλεγον”: third person, plural, imperfect, active, indicative verb meaning “they were saying”.
“οὐχ”: negative particle meaning “not”.
“οὗτός”: masculine, singular, nominative, demonstrative pronoun meaning “this”.
“ἐστιν”: third person, singular, present, indicative verb meaning “is”.
“Ἰησοῦς”: masculine, singular, nominative, proper noun meaning “Jesus”.
“ὁ”: masculine, singular, nominative article meaning “the”.
“υἱὸς”: masculine, singular, nominative noun meaning “son”.
“Ἰωσήφ”: masculine, singular, genitive, proper noun meaning “Joseph”.
“οὗ”: masculine, singular, genitive, definite, relative pronoun meaning “who”.
“ἡμεῖς”: first person, plural, nominative pronoun meaning “we”.
“οἴδαμεν”: first person, plural, present, active, indicative verb meaning “have known”.
“τὸν”: masculine, singular, accusative article meaning “the”.
“πατέρα”: masculine, singular, accusative noun meaning “father”.
“καὶ”: coordinating conjunction meaning “and”.
“τὴν”: feminine, singular, accusative article meaning “the”.
“μητέρα”: feminine, singular, accusative noun meaning “mother”.
“πῶς”: interrogative particle meaning “how”.
“νῦν”: temporal adverb meaning “now”.
“λέγει”: third person, singular, present, active,indicative verb meaning “says he”.
“ὅτι”: subordinating conjunction meaning “that”.
“ἐκ”: preposition taking the genitive for its object word and meaning “out of” or “from”.
“τοῦ”: masculine, singular, genitive article meaning “the” but it is not rendered into English here.
“οὐρανοῦ”: masculine, singular, genitive noun meaning “heaven”.
“καταβέβηκα”: first person, singular, perfect, active, indicative verb meaning “I have descended”.
The meaning of this verse is,
And they were saying, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whom we have known, the father, and the mother? How now says he that, ‘Out of heaven I have descended?'”
καὶ ἔλεγον· οὐχ οὗτός ἐστιν Ἰησοῦς ὁ υἱὸς Ἰωσήφ (John 6:42) by Dennis Glover is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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