Greek Verse of the Day

Nothing especially difficult here.

No real surprises with this famous verse.

Even though the verse is short, it does have quite a few interesting things to learn from.

Sometimes you need to rearrange the Greek words in order to understand the Greek grammar.

After verse 3, this verse is a welcomed relief and is pretty easy to translate.

While the grammar of this verse is pretty straightforward, the vocabulary is a bit challenging.

Jesus has been talking about living a crucified life, of giving up your life for him and his kingdom. Now comes the warning.

Here is your first deliberative subjunctive.

Except for one word, the verse is pretty easy but there are some interesting textual variants.

The trick in verse 35 is to identify the two indicative verbs, and then the subject of each. There's also a couple of interesting textual variants in this verse.