ἵνα πάντες ἓν ὦσιν καθὼς σύ πάτερ ἐν ἐμοὶ κἀγὼ ἐν σοί (John 17:21)

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Title:  So That All Might Be One, Just as You, Father, in Me and I in You

The text is, “ἵνα πάντες ἓν ὦσιν καθὼς σύ πάτερ ἐν ἐμοὶ κἀγὼ ἐν σοί ἵνα καὶ αὐτοὶ ἐν ἡμῖν ὦσιν ἵνα ὁ κόσμος πιστεύῃ ὅτι σύ με ἀπέστειλας”.

ἵνα -> subordinating conjunction -> so that

πάντες -> masculine, plural, nominative adjective -> all

ἓν -> neuter, singular, nominative, cardinal adjective -> one

ὦσιν -> third person, plural, present, subjunctive verb -> might be

καθὼς -> subordinating comparative conjunction -> just as

σύ -< second person, personal, singular, nominative pronoun -> you

πάτερ -> masculine, singular, vocative noun -> Father

ἐν -> preposition taking the dative for its object word -> in

ἐμοὶ -> first person, personal, singular, dative pronoun -> me

κἀγὼ -> crasis of “καὶ” (coordinating conjunction)  and “‘έγω” (first person, personal, singular, nominative pronoun) -> and I

ἐν -> preposition taking the dative for its object word -> in

σοί -> second person, personal, singular, dative pronoun -> you

ἵνα -> subordinating complementary conjunction -> that

καὶ -> adverb -> also

αὐτοὶ -> third person, personal, masculine, plural, nominative pronoun -> they

ἐν -> preposition taking the dative for its object word -> in

ἡμῖν -> first person, personal, plural, dative pronoun -> me

ὦσιν -> third person, plural, present, subjunctive verb -> might be

ἵνα -> subordinating purposive conjunction -> so that

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

κόσμος -> masculine, singular,nominative noun -> world

πιστεύῃ -> third person, singular, present, active, subjunctive verb -> might believe

ὅτι -> subordinating complementary conjunction -> that

σύ -> second person, personal, singular, nominative pronoun -> you

με -> first person, personal, singular, accusative pronoun -> me

ἀπέστειλας -> second person, singular, aorist, active, indicative verb -> sent

The meaning of this verse is,

So that all might be one, just as you, Father, in me, and I in you, so that they also might be in me and so that the world might believe that you sent me.”

ἵνα πάντες ἓν ὦσιν καθὼς σύ πάτερ ἐν ἐμοὶ κἀγὼ ἐν σοί (John 17:21) by Dennis Glover is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.