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Title: His Parents Said These Things Because they Were Terrified of the Jews
The text is, “ταῦτα εἶπαν οἱ γονεῖς αὐτοῦ ὅτι ἐφοβοῦντο τοὺς Ἰουδαίους ἤδη γὰρ συνετέθειντο οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι ἵνα ἐάν τις αὐτὸν ὁμολογήσῃ χριστόν ἀποσυνάγωγος γένηται”.
“ταῦτα”: neuter, plural, accusative, demonstrative pronoun meaning “these things”.
“εἶπαν”: third person, plural, aorist, active, indicative verb meaning “said”.
“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”.
“ὅτι”: subordinating causative conjunction meaning “because”.
“ἐφοβοῦντο”: third person, plural, imperfect, passive, indicative verb meaning “they were terrified”.
“τοὺς”: masculine, plural, accusative article meaning “of the”.
“Ἰουδαίους”: masculine, plural, accusative noun meaning “Jews”.
“ἤδη”: temporal adverb meaning “already”.
“γὰρ”: coordinating explanatory conjunction meaning “for” or “because”.
“συνετέθειντο”: third person, plural, pluperfect, middle,indicative verb meaning “had agreed”.
“οἱ”: masculine, plural, nominative article meaning “the”.
“Ἰουδαῖοι”: masculine, plural, nominative, proper noun meaning Jews”.
“ἵνα”: subordinating complementary conjunction meaning “that”.
“ἐάν”: subordinating conditional conjunction meaning “if”.
“τις”: masculine, singular, nominative, indefinite pronoun meaning “anyone”.
“αὐτὸν”: third person, personal, masculine, singular, accusative pronoun meaning “him”.
“ὁμολογήσῃ”: singular, aorist, active, subjunctive verb meaning “were to confess”.
“χριστόν”: masculine, singular, accusative noun meaning “Christ”.
“ἀποσυνάγωγος”: masculine, singular, nominative adjective meaning “banished from synagogue”.
“γένηται”: third person, singular, middle, aorist, subjunctive verb meaning “he would be”.
The meaning of this verse is,
His parent said these things because they were terrified of the Jews, because the Jews already had agreed that, if anyone were to confess him Christ, he would be banished from synagogue.
ταῦτα εἶπαν οἱ γονεῖς αὐτοῦ ὅτι ἐφοβοῦντο τοὺς Ἰουδαίους (John 9:22) by Dennis Glover is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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