Basics of Biblical Greek Exercise 22

Exercise 22 Second Aorist Active/Middle Indicative Parsing Inflected Person / Number Case Tense / Voice Mood Lexical Form Inflected Meaning Gender h[lqomen 1 Plural Aorist Active Indicative e[rcomai we went ejgenovmeqa 1 Plural Aorist Deponent Indicative givnomai we became ajpeqavnete 2 Plural Aorist Active Indicative ajpoqnh/vskw you died eijsh:lqeV 2 Singular Aorist Active Indicative eijsevrcomai you went in e[balen 3 Singular Aorist Active Indicative bavllw he/she/it threw I had e[scon Aorist Active Indicative e[cw Singular Aorist Active Indicative ginwvskw I knew 1 Singular Aorist Active Indicative euJrivskw I found 3 Plural ajpeqavnomen 1 Plural Aorist Active Indicative ajpoqnh/vskw we died ejginovmhn 1 Singular Imperfect Deponent Indicative givnomai I was becoming 1 Singular 3 Plural e[gnwn 1 eu|ron they had they found Warm-up a. He went to Jesus. b. The disciples came to him. g. He threw them into the earth. d. Did you receive the Holy Spirit? e. The prophets died. z. He went into the land of Israel. h. For you found grace in the presence of God. Translation 1. Christ died on behalf of our sins according to the Scriptures. 2. And the disciples went out and came into the city and found things just as he said to them. 3. And a voice came from the heavens, ÒYou are my beloved son.Ó 4. Teacher, we saw someone who was casting out demons in your name. !51 52 ! Exercise 22 5. But Jesus said to him, ÒWhy are you calling me ÔgoodÕ? No one is good except one, namely, God.Ó 6. He went out and departed into a lonely place and was praying there. And they found him and are saying to him, ÒEveryone is seeking you.Ó 7. And it often threw him both into fire and into water. 8. I neither know nor understand what you are saying. And he went outside. 9. We who died to sin, how will we still live in it? 10. Jesus answered them and said, ÒTruly, truly, I am telling you, you are seeking me not because you saw signs, but because you ate the bread and were satisfied.Ó Additional 11. In the house in which the disciples received the bread from the hand of Jesus, they spoke with each other and their Lord. 12. The crowd went into the city and gathered together in the synagogue because Paul was teaching the truth concerning both Jesus Christ and also the Lord. 13. And Saul and his three sons died on that day, and his entire house died at the same time. 14. And Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sonsÕ wives went into the ark with him because of the water. 15. In love the ruler received us; because of the love which he had for us, Jesus Christ, our Lord, gave his blood on our behalf by the will of God, and his flesh on behalf of our flesh, and his life on behalf of our lives. 16. Therefore JesusÉ went into Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus raised from the dead. 17. He was in the world, and the world was made through him, and the world did not know him. 18. After these things, Jesus and his disciples went into the region of Judea, and there he was spending time with them and was baptizing. 19. For you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband. 20. »Then¼ the Jews said to him, ÒNow we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets did also. And you are saying, ÔIf anyone keeps my word, he will certainly not taste death, even into eternity.ÕÓ1! 1 The Greek is idiomatic, so we need to be somewhat free in our translation. One thing to try to communicate in the translation is that ouj mhv plus the aorist subjunctive is the strongest way to negate something in Greek. What is being denied is the possibility that the person would ever taste death (Wallace, p. 468). This is a preview of what weÕll cover in chapter 31.