ἀπεκρίθη Ἰησοῦς καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ· ὅτι εἶπόν σοι ὅτι εἶδόν σε ὑποκάτω τῆς συκῆς, πιστεύεις (John 1:50)

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Title: Jesus Answered Him and Said, “Because I Saw You Under the Fig Tree You Believe.”

The text is, “ἀπεκρίθη Ἰησοῦς καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ ὅτι εἶπόν σοι ὅτι εἶδόν σε ὑποκάτω τῆς συκῆς, πιστεύεις μείζω τούτων ὄψῃ”

ἀπεκρίθη -> third person, singular, aorist, passive, indicative verb -> answered

Ἰησοῦς -> third person, masculine, singular, nominative, proper noun -> Jesus

καὶ -> coordinating conjunction -> and

εἶπεν -> third person, singular, aorist, active, indicative verb -> said

αὐτῷ -> third person, personal, masculine, singular, dative pronoun -> to him

ὅτι -> subordinating conjunction of causation -> because

εἶδόν -> first person, singular, aorist, active, indicative verb -> I saw

σε -> second person, personal, singular, accusative pronoun -> you

ὑποκάτω -> improper preposition taking the genitive for its object word -> under

τῆς is  feminine, singular, genitive article -> the

συκῆς -> feminine, singular, genitive noun -> fig tree

πιστεύεις -> second person, singular, present active, indicative verb -> you believe

μείζω -> neuter, plural, accusative, comparative adjective -> greater

τούτων -> neuter, plural, genitive, demonstrative pronoun -> than these

ὄψῃ -> second person, singular, future, middle, indicative verb -> you will see

The meaning of this verse is,

Because I saw you under the fig tree you believe.  You will see greater than these.”

 

CC BY 4.0 ἀπεκρίθη Ἰησοῦς καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ· ὅτι εἶπόν σοι ὅτι εἶδόν σε ὑποκάτω τῆς συκῆς, πιστεύεις (John 1:50) by Dennis Glover is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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