John 8:25
Verse
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2036
[list] Elegon Ἔλεγον Were saying V-IIA-3P |
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3767
[list] oun οὖν therefore Conj |
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846
[list] autō αὐτῷ to himself PPro-DM3S |
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4771
[list] Sy Σὺ You PPro-N2S |
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5101
[list] tis τίς who IPro-NMS |
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1510
[list] ei εἶ are being V-PIA-2S |
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2036
[list] Eipen Εἶπεν Said V-AIA-3S |
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846
[list] autois αὐτοῖς to themselves PPro-DM3P |
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3588
[list] ho ὁ the Art-NMS |
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2424
[list] Iēsous Ἰησοῦς Salvation N-NMS |
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3588
[list] Tēn Τὴν the Art-AFS |
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746
[list] archēn ἀρχὴν domain N-AFS |
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3754
[list] ho¦ti ὅ¦τι that Conj |
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2532
[list] kai καὶ and Conj |
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2980
[list] lalō λαλῶ I speak V-PIA-1S |
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4771
[list] hymin ὑμῖν to yourselves PPro-D2P |
"Who am I?"
They were saying therefore to himself, "Who is 'yourself'?" The Salvation said to themselves, "The Origin/Beginning, who also I am uttering to yourselves.84Then they said to Him, Who are you? And Jesus said to them, Altogether what I also say to you.
So they said to him, “Who are you?” Jesus said to them, “Just what I have been telling you from the beginning.
Footnotes
| 84 | Greek τὴν ἀρχὴν ὅ τι καὶ λαλῶ ὑμῖν. "Τὴν ἀρχὴν" (Tēn archēn): "The beginning" or "The Origin." There is no "from" preposition here and it is in the accusative. It escaped notice, being a hidden mystery, that the Genesis 1 beginning "In the Head" was a "someone". ὅ τι has been fumbled around by some as something meant to be one word "ὅτι" meaning "that". The problem with this is that you end up with two conjunctions which makes no sense. It is a relative pronoun and an indefinite pronoun. That Jesus should say something like "What I also speak to you" or "what I have been speaking" in answer to a simple question is quite the pointless answer, and even makes him sound incapable of explaining.
A literal reading of this therefore would be something like, "The Origin [feminine] who, someone also I am uttering to yourselves." |