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Title -> And Needed No One to Bear Witness About Man
The text is, “καὶ ὅτι οὐ χρείαν εἶχεν ἵνα τις μαρτυρήσῃ περὶ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου αὐτὸς γὰρ ἐγίνωσκεν τί ἦν ἐν τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ”.
καὶ -> coordinating conjunction -> and
ὅτι -> subordinating conjunction of causation -> because
οὐ -> negative particle -> no
χρείαν -> feminine, singular, accusative noun -> need
εἶχεν -> third person, singular, imperfect, active, indicative verb -> he had
ἵνα -> coordinating conjunction -> that
ἵνα -> masculine, singular, nominative, indefinite pronoun -> anyone
μαρτυρήσῃ -> third person, singular, aorist, active, subjunctive verb -> should bear witness
περὶ -> preposition taking the genitive for its object word and -> concerning
τοῦ -> masculine, singular, genitive article -> the NRIEH**
ἀνθρώπου -> masculine, singular, genitive noun -> man
αὐτὸς -> third person, personal, masculine, singular, nominative pronoun -> he
γὰρ -> coordinating explanatory conjunction -> since
ἐγίνωσκεν -> third person, singular, imperfect, active, indicative verb -> knew
τί -> neuter, singular, nominative pronoun -> what
ἦν -> third person, singular, imperfect, indicative verb -> was
ἐν -> preposition taking the dative for its object word and -> in
τῷ -> masculine, singular, dative article -> the NRIEH
ἀνθρώπῳ -> masculine, singular, dative noun -> mankind or man
The meaning of this verse is, and because he had no need that anyone should bear witness about man, since he knew what was in mankind.
**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”.
καὶ ὅτι οὐ χρείαν εἶχεν ἵνα τις μαρτυρήσῃ περὶ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου (John 2:25) by Dennis Glover is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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