Sunday, October 30, 2022

John 16:32

The Daily Dose of Greek has been going through John 16.  A couple days ago, I watched the video for John 16:32:


ἰδοὺ ἔρχεται ὥρα καὶ ἐλήλυθεν ἵνα σκορπισθῆτε ἕκαστος εἰς τὰ ἴδια κἀμὲ μόνον ἀφῆτε· καὶ οὐκ εἰμὶ μόνος, ὅτι ὁ πατὴρ μετ᾽ ἐμοῦ ἐστιν.

Behold the hour is coming, indeed it has come, when you will be scattered, each to his own home, and will leave me alone.  Yet I am not alone, for the Father is with me.
The verb σκορπισθῆτε ("you will be scattered") has a plural subject, but ἕκαστος is singular ("each"), so even in the language here, there's a sense of this division.  There's a movement from plural to singular.