[B-Greek] Luke 22:70 & 23:3 'you say'?
craig
newsgroupstuff at people.net.au
Thu Aug 11 19:52:54 EDT 2005
> HH: An earlier precedent in the context of Christ's last days is:
>
> Matt. 26:25 ¶ Then Judas, the one who would
> betray him, said, "Surely not I, Rabbi?" ¶ Jesus
> answered, "Yes, it is you."
>
> HH: The words "Yes, it is you" in Greek are SU EIPAS: "You
> have said (it)."
Yes, I came across that also. However, I don't think it is any clearer than
the Luke ones, just the same form, and perhaps meant to be just as
ambiguous.
I guess my current opinion is tending towards a kind of ambiguity. Or
perhaps moreso, Jesus is using the 2nd person pronoun to emphasise to the
other person(s) that he has a responsibility to make the right conclusion or
that really the other person knows the true answer but they don't want to
face up to it. Similar to the way they don't want to answer Jesus when he
asks about John's baptism (perhaps cf Luke 22:67 and 22:68). Maybe it is a
kind of ambigous but emphatic answer, to say to them: 'I am not playing your
games. YOU just want to find something against me. But YOU really need to
submit to who YOU know that I am, yet reject and won't believe'. Something
like that. But now it is starting to read into more than maybe B-Greek will
allow ;)
Anyhow, sounds like there is not much in terms of clearer precedent in the
Scriptures, and maybe not in other literature..? Also sounds like this has
been discussed before, so maybe I should look through the archives and see
what comes up.
Thanks for helpful of others, as usual!
--
Craig Johnson
Brisbane, Australia
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