- *paroimian*
- accusative, feminine, singular - figure of speech/proverb/parable
- *eipen*
- aorist active indicative, 3rd person singular - said/spoke
- *Iēsous*
- nominative, masculine, singular - Jesus
- *de*
- postpositive conjunction - but/and/now
- *egnōsan*
- aorist active indicative, 3rd person plural - they understood/knew
- *tina*
- interrogative pronoun, accusative - what things
- *ēn*
- imperfect active indicative, 3rd person singular - was/were
- *ha*
- relative pronoun, nominative, neuter, plural - which/that
- *elalei*
- imperfect active indicative, 3rd person singular - was speaking/saying