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Title: Therefore They Sought Jesus and Were Saying
The text is, “ἐζήτουν οὖν τὸν Ἰησοῦν καὶ ἔλεγον μετ’ ἀλλήλων ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ ἑστηκότες· τί δοκεῖ ὑμῖν; ὅτι οὐ μὴ ἔλθῃ εἰς τὴν ἑορτήν”.
“ἐζήτουν”: third person, plural, imperfect, active,indicative verb meaning “they sought”.
“οὖν”: coordinating inferential conjunction meaning “therefore”.
“τὸν”: masculine, singular, accusative article meaning “the” but it is not rendered into English here.
“Ἰησοῦν”: masculine, singular, accusative, proper noun meaning “Jesus”.
“καὶ”: coordinating conjunction meaning “and”.
“ἔλεγον”: third person, plural, imperfect, active, indicative verb meaning “were saying”.
“μετ’”: preposition taking the genitive for its object word and meaning “among”.
“ἀλλήλων”: masculine, plural, genitive, reciprocal pronoun meaning “one another”.
“ἐν”: preposition taking the dative for its object word and meaning “in”.
“τῷ”: neuter, singular, dative article meaning “the”.
“ἱερῷ”: neuter, singular, dative noun meaning “temple”.
“ἑστηκότες”: perfect, active, participial, masculine, plural, nominative verb meaning “standing”.
“τί”: neuter, singular, nominative, interrogative pronoun meaning “what”.
“δοκεῖ”: second person, singular, present, active, indicative verb meaning “do think”.
“ὑμῖν”: second person, personal, plural, dative pronoun meaning “you”.
“ὅτι”: subordinating complementary conjunction meaning “that”.
“οὐ”: negative particle meaning “not”.
“μὴ”: negative particle meaning “not”.
“ἔλθῃ”: third person, singular, aorist, active, subjunctive verb meaning “he might come”.
“εἰς”: preposition taking the accusative for its object word and meaning “to”.
“τὴν”: feminine, singular, accusative article meaning “the”.
“ἑορτήν”: feminine, singular, accusative noun meaning “festival”.
The meaning of this verse is,
Therefore they sought Jesus, and were saying among one another standing in the temple, “What do you think? That he might never, never come to the festival?”
ἐζήτουν οὖν τὸν Ἰησοῦν καὶ ἔλεγον (John 11:56) by Dennis Glover is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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