Basics of Biblical Greek Exercise 25

Exercise 25 Perfect Indicative Parsing Inflected Person / Number Case hjgavphka Tense / Voice Mood Lexical Form Inflected Meaning Gender Singular Perfect Active Indicative ajgapavw I have loved pepisteuvmeqa 1 Plural Perfect Middle or Passive Indicative pisteuvw we have been believed / we have been entrusted (with something) gegevnnhsai 2 Singular Perfect Middle or Passive Indicative gennavw you have been born kevklhsqe 2 Plural Perfect Middle or Passive Indicative kalevw you have been called hjkolouvqhken 3 Singular Perfect Active Indicative ajkolouqevw he/she/it has followed e[gnwkan 3 Plural Perfect Active Indicative ginwvskw they have come to know he/she/it died 1 ajpevqanen 3 Singular Aorist Active Indicative ajpoqnh/vskw ajkhkovamen 1 Plural Perfect Active Indicative ajkouvw we have heard seswvkate 2 Plural Perfect Active Indicative sw/vzw you have saved gevgrafaV 2 Singular Perfect Active Indicative gravfw you have written Warm-up a. He has believed in the name. b. No one has seen God. g. The time has been fulfilled. d. For this purpose I have been born, and for this purpose I have come. e. He has been thrown into the sea. z. We have these things which we have requested from him. h. The teacher of this world has been judged. Translation 1. I have believed that you are the Christ, the Son of God. 2. Tell them how much the Lord has done for you. 3. He is not able to sin, because he has been born from God. !57 58 ! Exercise 25 I have seen and I have also testified that this is the Son of God. 4. ÒYour faith has healed you.Ó And the woman was healed from that hour. 5. 6. The one who believes in him is not judged, but the one who does not believe has already been judged because he did not believe in the name of the only Son of God. 7. I have become all things to all people. 8. And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and the people loved the darkness instead of the light because their deeds were 1 evil. 9. But I am saying to you that Elijah has indeed2 come, and they did to him whatever they were wanting to do, just as it has been written concerning him. 10. But I have known you, that you do not have the love of God in yourselves. I have come in the name of my father, and you are not receiving me. Additional 11. Because we have believed the truth about Jesus, we will be baptized in the water of the lake by John, the apostle. 12. Therefore the tongues of our mouths have testified about the Lord of the Heavens, that (or ÒbecauseÓ) he has saved us from our sins through the blood of his son. 13. And Israel said to Joseph, ÒFrom now on, I will (gladly) die, because I have seen your face, because you are still alive.Ó 14. And Moses said to God, ÒBehold, I will go to the sons of Israel and say to them, ÔThe God of your fathers has sent me to you.Õ And they will ask me, ÔWhat is his name?Õ Then what will I say to them?Ó 15. And the Lord said to Moses, ÒI will do this thing also which you have requested, because you have found favor before me, and I have known you above all.Ó 16. The words which I have spoken to you are spirit and are life. 17. And we have believed and have come to know that you are the Holy One of God. 18. Truly, truly I say to you, we are speaking about what we know, and we are testifying about what we have seen, but you are not accepting our testimony. 19. You have sent to John, and he has testified concerning the truth. The testimony that I receive is not from man, but I am saying these things in order that you might be saved. 20. Then Jesus says to him, ÒDepart, Satan! For it is written, ÔYou will worship the Lord, your God.ÕÓ! 1 Note that the neuter plural subject ta; e[rga takes a singular verb h\n. This may look strange, but it is very common. Greek often uses a singular verb with a neuter plural subject; when it does so, it indicates that the plural subject is being viewed as a group rather than as multiple individual items. The singular Greek verb must be translated as an English plural verb. 2 ÒIndeedÓ is used to translate kai;. The textbook (page 19) lists Òand, even, also, namelyÓ as the meanings of kai;, but none of those fit this context well. The BDAG lexicon lists one of the uses of kai; as Òemphasizing a fact as surprising or unexpected or noteworthy,Ó which is how it seems to be used here. In the context (Mark 9), the disciples are confused about the appearance of Elijah, and Jesus explains that John the Baptist is the fulfillment of the prophesy about ElijahÕs return. The kai; seems to mark this as surprising, unexpected, or noteworthy. To try to convey this in English I translated kai; as ÒindeedÓ in this sentence, as it is done in the NASB. The NET Bible translates it as Òcertainly.Ó The ESV and the NIV omit the kai; in translation.