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Title: Jesus Answered them and Said
The text is, ” Ἀπεκρίθη αὐτοῖς ὁ Ἰησοῦς καὶ εἶπεν· ἀμὴν ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν, ζητεῖτέ με οὐχ ὅτι εἴδετε σημεῖα, ἀλλ’ ὅτι ἐφάγετε ἐκ τῶν ἄρτων καὶ ἐχορτάσθητε”.
“Ἀπεκρίθη”: third person, singular, aorist, passive, indicative verb meaning “he answered”.
“αὐτοῖς”: third person, personal, masculine, plural, dative pronoun meaning “them”.
“ὁ”: masculine, singular, nominative article meaning “the” but it is not rendered into English here.
“Ἰησοῦς”: masculine, singular, nominative noun meaning “Jesus”.
“καὶ”: coordinating conjunction meaning “and”.
“εἶπεν”: third person, singular, aorist, active, indicative verb meaning “said”.
“ἀμὴν”: Hebraicized particle meaning “truly”.
“ἀμὴν”: Hebraicized particle meaning “truly”.
“λέγω”: first person, singular, present, active, indicative verb meaning “I say”.
“ὑμῖν”: second person, personal, plural, dative pronoun meaning “to you”.
“ζητεῖτέ”: second person, plural, present, active, indicative verb meaning “you seek”.
“με”: first person, personal, singular, accusative pronoun meaning “me”.
“οὐχ”: negative particle meaning “not”.
“ὅτι”: subordinating causative conjunction meaning “because”.
“εἴδετε”: second person, plural, aorist, active, indicative verb meaning “you saw”.
“σημεῖα”: neuter, plural, accusative noun meaning “signs”.
“ἀλλ’”: coordinating adversative conjunction meaning “but”.
“ὅτι”: subordinating causative conjunction meaning “because”.
“ἐφάγετε”: second person, plural, aorist, active, indicative verb meaning “you ate”.
“ἐκ”: preposition taking the genitive for its object word and meaning “of” or “from”.
“τῶν”: masculine, plural, genitive article meaning “the”.
“ἄρτων”: masculine plural, genitive noun meaning “loaves”.
“καὶ”: coordinating conjunction meaning “and”.
“ἐχορτάσθητε”: second person, plural, aorist, passive, indicative verb meaning “were filled”.
The meaning of this verse is,
Jesus answered them and said, “Truly, truly, I say to you, ‘You seek me, not because you saw signs, but you ate from the loaves and were filled.'”
Ἀπεκρίθη αὐτοῖς ὁ Ἰησοῦς (John 6:26) by Dennis Glover is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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