New Testament Greek

Jesus says to her: “What is it to me and to you, woman? My hour has not yet come.”

In response to Mary’s implied request, Yeshuʿ continues: οὔπω ἥκει ἡ ὥρα μου — “My hour has not yet come.”

This sentence is the first of many references in John’s Gospel to “the hour”—a recurring symbol for the divinely appointed time of Jesus’ glorification, crucifixion, resurrection, and exaltation. But the grammatical key to this sentence is ἥκει—a perfect tense verb that signals arrival with ongoing presence.… Learn Koine Greek

The verse οἳ οὐκ ἐξ αἱμάτων, οὐδὲ ἐκ θελήματος σαρκὸς, οὐδὲ ἐκ θελήματος ἀνδρὸς, ἀλλ’ ἐκ Θεοῦ ἐγεννήθησαν (John 1:13) serves as the culminating line in a sequence beginning in John 1:12, where those who receive the Logos are given authority to become children of God. Verse 13 elaborates how this new birth happens — not through biological, volitional, or human processes, but through divine generation. It is a theological threshold in the prologue, transitioning from reception to regeneration.

The verse is constructed as a series of three negative prepositional clauses, followed by a climactic adversative clause:

οὐκ ἐξ αἱμάτων οὐδὲ ἐκ θελήματος σαρκὸς οὐδὲ ἐκ θελήματος ἀνδρὸς ἀλλ’ ἐκ Θεοῦ ἐγεννήθησαν

The repeated use of ἐκ (“out of”) focuses attention on the source of birth.… Learn Koine Greek