John 6:42

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how {G3767} doth he now say, I am come down out of heaven?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ ἔλεγον, Οὐχ οὗτός ἐστιν Ἰησοῦς, ὁ υἱὸς Ἰωσήφ, οὗ ἡμεῖς οἴδαμεν τὸν πατέρα καὶ τὴν μητέρα; πῶς οὖν λέγει, οὖτος ὅτι Ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ καταβέβηκα;

Transliteration

And they elegon, Not this estin Iēsous, the hyios Iōsēph, of whom we oidamen the patera and the mētera? How oun legei, this one that From the ouranou katabebēka?

Grammar Details

*elegon*: imperfect, indicative, active, 3rd plural - were saying
*estin*: present, indicative, active, 3rd singular - is
*Iēsous*: nominative, masculine, singular - Jesus
*hyios*: nominative, masculine, singular - son
*Iōsēph*: genitive, masculine, singular - of Joseph
*oidamen*: perfect, indicative, active, 1st plural - we know
*patera*: accusative, masculine, singular - father
*mētera*: accusative, feminine, singular - mother
*oun*: inferential particle - therefore/then
*legei*: present, indicative, active, 3rd singular - says
*ouranou*: genitive, masculine, singular - heaven
*katabebēka*: perfect, indicative, active, 1st singular - I have come down

Word Meanings

*elegon*: were saying/telling
*hyios*: son
*oidamen*: we know/understand
*patera*: father
*mētera*: mother
*oun*: therefore/then/consequently
*legei*: says/tells/speaks
*ouranou*: heaven/sky
*katabebēka*: I have come down/descended

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Referenced Verses

Luke 4:22 : 22 And all bare him witness, and wondered at the words of grace which proceeded out of his mouth: and they said, Is not this Joseph's son?
John 6:38 : 38 For I am come down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.
John 6:62 : 62 [ What] then if ye should behold the Son of man ascending where he was before?
John 7:27-28 : 27 Howbeit we know this man whence he is: but when the Christ cometh, no one knoweth whence he is. 28 Jesus therefore cried in the temple, teaching and saying, Ye both know me, and know whence I am; and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom ye know not.
Rom 1:3-4 : 3 concerning his Son, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh, 4 who was declared [to be] the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead; [even] Jesus Christ our Lord,
Rom 9:5 : 5 whose are the fathers, and of whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
1 Cor 15:47 : 47 The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is {G2962} of heaven.
Gal 4:4 : 4 but when the fulness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
Matt 13:55-56 : 55 Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joseph, and Simon, and Judas? 56 And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then hath this man all these things?
Mark 6:3 : 3 Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, and Joses, and Judas, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended in him.

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