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Title: Jesus Answered, “Neither This One Sinned, Nor His Parents”
The text is, “ἀπεκρίθη Ἰησοῦς· οὔτε οὗτος ἥμαρτεν οὔτε οἱ γονεῖς αὐτοῦ, ἀλλ’ ἵνα φανερωθῇ τὰ ἔργα τοῦ θεοῦ ἐν αὐτῷ”.
“ἀπεκρίθη”: third person, singular, aorist, passive, indicative verb meaning “answered”.
“Ἰησοῦς”: masculine, singular, nominative, proper noun meaning “Jesus”.
“οὔτε”: coordinating correlative conjunction meaning “neither”.
“οὗτος”: masculine, singular, nominative, demonstrative pronoun meaning “this one”.
“ἥμαρτεν”: third person, singular, aorist, active, indicative verb meaning “sinned”.
“οὔτε”: coordinating correlative conjunction meaning “nor”.
“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”.
“ἀλλ’”: coordinating adversative conjunction meaning “but”.
“ἵνα”: subordinating purposive conjunction meaning “so that”.
“φανερωθῇ”: third person, singular, aorist, passive, subjunctive verb meaning “might be displayed”.
“τὰ”: neuter, plural, nominative article meaning “the”.
“ἔργα”: neuter, plural, nominative noun meaning “works”.
“τοῦ”: masculine, singular, genitive article meaning “the” but it is not rendered into English here.
“θεοῦ”: masculine, singular, genitive noun meaning “of God”.
“ἐν”: preposition taking the dative for its object word and meaning “in”.
“αὐτῷ”: third person, masculine, singular, dative pronoun meaning “him”.
The meaning of this verse is,
Jesus answered, “Neither this one sinned, nor his parents, but so that the works of God might be displayed in him.”
ἀπεκρίθη Ἰησοῦς οὔτε οὗτος ἥμαρτεν οὔτε οἱ γονεῖς αὐτοῦ (John 9:3) by Dennis Glover is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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