Τῇ ἐπαύριον βλέπει τὸν Ἰησοῦν ἐρχόμενον πρὸς αὐτὸν (John 1:29)

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 Title: The Next Day He Sees Jesus Coming Toward Him

The text is, “Τῇ ἐπαύριον βλέπει τὸν Ἰησοῦν ἐρχόμενον πρὸς αὐτὸν καὶ λέγει· ἴδε ὁ ἀμνὸς τοῦ θεοῦ ὁ αἴρων τὴν ἁμαρτίαν τοῦ κόσμου”

Τῇ -> feminine, singular, dative article -> the

ἐπαύριον -> temporal adverb -> next day

βλέπει -> third person, singular, present, active, indicative verb -> sees CER* saw

τὸν -> masculine, singular, accusative article -> the NRIEH**

Ἰησοῦν -> masculine, singular, accusative, proper noun -> Jesus

ἐρχόμενον is  present, middle, participial, masculine, singular, accusative verb -> coming

πρὸς -> preposition taking the accusative for its object word, -> toward

αὐτὸν -> third person, personal, singular, masculine, accusative pronoun -> him

καὶ -> coordinating conjunction -> and

λέγει -> third person, singular, present, active, indicative verb -> says CER said

ἴδε -> interjection -> Look!

ὁ -> masculine, singular,nominative article -> the

ἀμνὸς -> masculine, singular, nominative noun -> lamb

τοῦ -> masculine, singular, genitive article -> the NRIEH

θεοῦ -> masculine, singular, genitive noun -> of God

ὁ -> masculine, singular, nominative article -> who

αἴρων -> present, active, participial, masculine, singular, nominative verb -> takes away

τὴν -> feminine, singular, accusative article -> the

ἁμαρτίαν -> feminine, singular, accusative noun -> sin

τοῦ -> masculine, singular, genitive article -> of the

κόσμου -> masculine, singular, genitive noun -> world

The meaning of this verse is,

The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look! The Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!”

*CER:  indicates a non-literal, but good translation.  In the first example here, the verb “ἔρχεται” 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”.

Τῇ ἐπαύριον βλέπει τὸν Ἰησοῦν ἐρχόμενον πρὸς αὐτὸν (John 1:29) by Dennis Glover is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.