Basics of Biblical Greek Exercise 21 Track 2

Exercise 21 Ð Track 2 Imperfect Indicative Parsing Inflected Person / Number Case Tense / Voice Mood Gender Lexical Inflected Meaning Form ejpivsteueV 2 Singular Imperfect Active Indicative pisteuvw you (singular) were believing hjkouvete 2 Plural Imperfect Active Indicative ajkouvw you (plural) were hearing hjkolouqou:men 1 Plural Imperfect Active Indicative ajkolouqevw we were following h[rceto 3 Singular Imperfect Deponent Indicative e[rcomai he/she/it was going ejporeuvonto 3 Plural Imperfect Deponent Indicative poreuvomai they were going ejplhrou: 2 Singular Imperfect Middle or Passive Indicative plhrovw you (singular) were being filled ejdidavskete 2 Plural Imperfect Active Indicative didavskw you (plural) were teaching ejporeuovmhn 1 Singular Imperfect Deponent Indicative poreuvomai I was going periepavtei 3 Singular Imperfect Active Indicative peripatevw he/she/it was walking around ejphrwvtwn 1 Singular Imperfect Active Indicative ejphrwtavw I was asking" 3 Plural they were asking Warm-up a. We were seeking him. b. You were making the world. g. I was following him. Ñ or Ñ They were following him. d. The Pharisees were looking towards him. e. And I É was coming from Mesopotamia. z. They were going and talking. h. The laws of God were being done by Jesus. !97 98 ! Review #7 Translation 1. He was teaching in their synagogues. 2. He was doing just as he desired. 3. The man was a son of a god / the son of a god / a son of God / the Son of God.1 4. With many parables he was speaking the word to them just as they were able to listen. 5. And she was speaking in her heartÉ and her voice was not being heard. 6. Peter was being kept in the prison. 7. And Jesus was loving Martha, her sister, and Lazarus. 8. Those around him, together with the twelve, were asking him about the parables. 9. Jesus is saying to them, ÒIf you were children of Abraham, you would do the works of Abraham.Ó 10. And after these things Jesus was walking around in Galilee because he was not desiring to walk in Judea because the Jews were seeking to kill him. Additional 11. In the days of Jesus, the evil people were following demons, but the good people were following the Lord. 12. But the angels were listening to the apostle, for he was teaching the Pharisees in the synagogue. 13. And they were saying, ÒThe land is good.Ó 14. The Levites were teaching the law of the Lord. 15. The crowd was coming to him, and he was teaching them. 16. And you were following other gods. 17. When I was a child, I was speaking as a child. 18. He was asking him and saying to him, ÒAre you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?Ó 19. Beloved, I am not writing a new commandment to you but an old commandment that you were having from the beginning. 20. And immediately on the Sabbaths after entering into the synagogue, he began to teach.2! 1 2 Because there are no articles, and because the speaker is a Roman soldier who had just witnessed the earthquake, the darkness, and how Jesus behaved on the cross, one can make a case for several of these grammatical possibilities. By adding the words Òbegan toÓ we are interpreting the imperfect as an Òinceptive imperfect.Ó This is just one example of the kinds of things you can learn from Wallace (pp. 544-545) in second-year Greek class!