John 8:27

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

They perceived not that he spake to them of the Father.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Οὐκ ἔγνωσαν ὅτι τὸν Πατέρα αὐτοῖς ἔλεγεν.

Transliteration

Not egnōsan that the Patera to-them elegen.

Grammar Details

• *egnōsan*: aorist active indicative, 3rd person plural - they knew/understood [completed action]
• *Patera*: accusative masculine singular - Father
• *elegen*: imperfect active indicative, 3rd person singular - he was speaking/telling [continuous past]
• *ouk*: negative particle - not

Word Meanings

• *egnōsan*: knew/understood/recognized/perceived
• *Patera*: father/progenitor/source [referring to God]
• *elegen*: was speaking about/referring to/telling

Referenced Verses

• Isa 6:9 : 9 And he said, Go, and tell this people, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye indeed, but perceive not.
• Isa 42:18-20 : 18 Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see. 19 Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I send? who is blind as he that is at peace [with me], and blind as Jehovah's servant? 20 Thou seest many things, but thou observest not; his ears are open, but he heareth not.
• Isa 59:10 : 10 We grope for the wall like the blind; yea, we grope as they that have no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; among them that are lusty we are as dead men.
• John 8:43 : 43 Why {G5101} do ye not understand my speech? [Even] because ye cannot {G1410} hear my word.
• John 8:47 : 47 He that is of God heareth the words of God: for this cause ye hear [them] not, because ye are not of God.
• Rom 11:7-9 : 7 What then? that which Israel seeketh for, that he {G2013} obtained not; but the election obtained it, and the rest were hardened: 8 according as it is written, God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, unto this very day. 9 And David saith, Let their table be made {G1519} a snare, and {G1519} a trap, And {G1519} a stumblingblock, and {G1519} a recompense unto them: 10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, And bow thou down their back always.
• 2 Cor 4:3-4 : 3 And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled in them that perish: 4 in whom the god of this world hath blinded {G1519} the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn [upon them].