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Title: So Having Seen Him, Peter Said to Jesus, “Lord, This One, Now What?”
The text is, “τοῦτον οὖν ἰδὼν ὁ Πέτρος λέγει τῷ Ἰησοῦ· κύριε, οὗτος δὲ τί”.
τοῦτον -> masculine, singular, accusative, demonstrative pronoun -> him
οὖν -> coordinating inferential conjunction -> so
ἰδὼν -> aorist, active, participial, masculine, singular, nominative verb -> having seen
ὁ -> masculine, singular, nominative article -> the NRIEH**
Πέτρος -> masculine, singular, nominative, proper noun -> Peter
λέγει -> third person, singular, present, active, indicative verb -> says CER* said
τῷ -> third person, singular, dative article -> the NRIEH
Ἰησοῦ -> masculine, singular, dative, proper noun -> to Jesus
κύριε -> masculine, singular, vocative noun -> Lord
οὗτος -> masculine, singular, nominative, demonstrative pronoun -> this one
δὲ -> coordinating conjunction -> now
τί -> neuter, singular, accusative, interrogative pronoun -> what
The meaning of this verse is,
So having seen him, Peter said to Jesus, “Lord, this one, now what?”
*CER: indicates a non-literal, but good translation. In the first example here, the verb “λέγει” is present tense, which in the indicative mood often can be rendered in the aorist tense, since it expresses linear action not in the present but at some point in the past. The designation CER is equivalent to “Contextual English Rendering”.
**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”.
τοῦτον οὖν ἰδὼν ὁ Πέτρος λέγει τῷ Ἰησοῦ· κύριε, οὗτος δὲ τί (John 21:21) by Dennis Glover is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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