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Title: Of the Pharisees Being Near Him Heard Things
The text is, “ἤκουσαν ἐκ τῶν Φαρισαίων ταῦτα οἱ μετ’ αὐτοῦ ὄντες καὶ εἶπον αὐτῷ· μὴ καὶ ἡμεῖς τυφλοί ἐσμεν”.
“ἤκουσαν”: third person, plural, aorist, active, indicative verb meaning “heard”.
“ἐκ”: preposition taking the genitive for its object word and meaning “of”.
“τῶν”: masculine, plural genitive article meaning “the”.
“Φαρισαίων”: masculine, plural, genitive, proper noun meaning “Pharisees”.
“ταῦτα”: neuter, plural, accusative, demonstrative pronoun meaning “things”.
“οἱ”: masculine, plural, nominative article meaning “the”.
“μετ’”: preposition taking the genitive for its object word and meaning “near”.
“αὐτοῦ”: third person, personal, masculine, singular, genitive pronoun meaning “him”.
“ὄντες”: present, participial, masculine, plural, nominative verb meaning “being”.
“καὶ”: coordinating conjunction meaning “and”.
“εἶπον”: third person, plural, aorist, active, indicative verb meaning “said”.
“αὐτῷ”: third person, personal, masculine, singular, dative pronoun meaning “to him”.
“μὴ”: negative particle meaning “not”.
“καὶ”: coordinating conjunction meaning “also”.
“ἡμεῖς”: first person, personal, plural, nominative pronoun meaning “we”.
“τυφλοί”: masculine, plural, nominative adjective meaning “blind”.
“ἐσμεν”: first person, plural, present, indicative verb meaning “are”.
The meaning of this verse is,
Of the Pharisees being near him heard things, and said to him, “Are we not also blind?”
ἤκουσαν ἐκ τῶν Φαρισαίων ταῦτα οἱ μετ’ αὐτοῦ (John 9:40) by Dennis Glover is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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