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Title: He Said These Things, and After This He Said to Them, “Our Friend Lazarus Sleeps”
The text is, “Ταῦτα εἶπεν, καὶ μετὰ τοῦτο λέγει αὐτοῖς· Λάζαρος ὁ φίλος ἡμῶν κεκοίμηται· ἀλλὰ πορεύομαι ἵνα ἐξυπνίσω αὐτόν”.
“Ταῦτα”: neuter, plural, accusative, demonstrative pronoun meaning “these things”.
“εἶπεν”: third person, singular, aorist, active, indicative verb meaning “he said”.
“καὶ”: coordinating conjunction meaning “and”.
“μετὰ”: preposition taking the accusative for its object word and meaning “after”.
“τοῦτο”: neuter, singular, accusative, demonstrative pronoun meaning “this”.
“λέγει”: third person, singular, aorist, active, indicative verb meaning “he said”.
“αὐτοῖς”: third person, personal, masculine, plural, dative pronoun meaning “to them”.
“Λάζαρος”: masculine, singular, nominative, proper noun meaning “Lazarus”.
“ὁ”: masculine, singular, nominative article meaning “the” but it is not rendered into English here.
“φίλος”: masculine, singular, nominative adjective meaning “friend”.
“ἡμῶν”: first person, personal, plural, genitive pronoun meaning “our”.
“κεκοίμηται”: third person, singular, perfect, passive, indicative verb meaning “sleeps”.
“ἀλλὰ”: coordinating adversative conjunction meaning “but”.
“πορεύομαι”: first person, singular, present, middle, indicative verb meaning “I go”.
“ἵνα”: subordinating purposive conjunction meaning “so that”.
“ἐξυπνίσω”: first person, singular, aorist, active, subjunctive verb meaning “I might awaken”.
“αὐτόν”: third person, personal, masculine, singular, accusative pronoun meaning “him”.
The meaning of this verse is,
He said these things to them, and after this he said to them, “Our friend Lazarus sleeps, but I go so that I might awaken him.”
Ταῦτα εἶπεν, καὶ μετὰ τοῦτο λέγει αὐτοῖς· Λάζαρος ὁ φίλος ἡμῶν κεκοίμηται (John 11:11) by Dennis Glover is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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