Can you be specific? What grammatical issues are still unclear to you at this point in the discussion?
I suspect the grammar doesn't know most of those words. What is your question about the grammar of this text?
Can you be specific? What grammatical issues are still unclear to you at this point in the discussion?
I suspect the grammar doesn't know most of those words. What is your question about the grammar of this text?
The assumed "they" of ἔθυον should be understood as the Jews generally ("they were offering") and τὸ πάσχα refers to the Passover sacrifice. It wasn't a single lamb. The offering of the lamb(s) took some time, and this provides the time in which the disciples recalled their own need for a place to celebrate the festival.
πάσχα is normally understood as a singular concept, the passover. In Mark 14:12, context indicates that, while a singular translation is fine, it represents the whole of the passover sacrifice, which included more than one baby sheep.Bill Ross wrote: ↑April 8th, 2021, 1:05 pm Can it not be parsed as singular as well?:
https://logeion.uchicago.edu/morpho/%E1 ... E%BF%CE%BD
ὅτε means that the action was going on (note again the imperfect tense) at the same time other actions are taking place in the context. If that's what you mean by "simultaneity" then yes. However, we know from the broader context that it also something that happened yearly, so customary.
What I'm afraid of is not seeing why it must be this way or that way. It was the time at when the Jews customarily offered the Passover at the Temple, and it was the time when the Jews at that specific time were offering the Passover at the Temple. It's the same thing. It was customary, and they were doing it according to the custom. I don't see the disconnect with that concept.