Hello, this is Pastor Steven Anderson from Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona,
and today we're going to be going over Mark 2-28 in the Greek New Testament.
Now in English, this verse says, Therefore the Son of Man is Lord also of the Sabbath.
In Greek, it is oste kyrios estin oios tu anthropou ky tu savatu.
Now let's go over this word by word.
Oste means therefore.
Kyrios, we've already seen this word before, means Lord.
Estin means is.
Now notice, the word order is completely different in Greek because in English it was,
Therefore the Son of Man is Lord also of the Sabbath.
In Greek, the word order is a lot more flexible, so you can say the exact same thing
and just put the words in a completely different order.
It's just more flexible in Greek than we are in English, okay?
So here we have oios, which means the Son, that's a word that we've seen before.
Oios, the Son, tu anthropou.
Now again, this omicron epsilon ending at the end of tu and anthropou, all right,
tells us that we're dealing with a singular genitive case, all right?
Remember Mark 1-1 was just packed with genitives.
Go back and review that lesson if you need to.
But tu anthropou means of the man, okay, because this is the word the.
But again, the use of the is different in Greek versus English.
So in English, we're just going to say the Son, oios, tu anthropou, of man.
Because whenever we have something in genitive case, it's either a possessive or
usually we would just stick the word of in front of it,
if there's not already a preposition there, okay?
Tu anthropou is of man, oios tu anthropou, the son of man, okay?
Que, now normally que means and, and we've seen it mean and a lot,
but que has another meaning of also or to, okay?
So here it means also, not and.
It can mean both and or also.
It says que tu savatu, okay?
Savatu here, you can probably tell it sort of resembles our word Sabbath.
And this word that we find in the Greek New Testament can either mean Sabbath or
week.
Often it just means week.
But in this case, it means Sabbath, okay?
And it resembles our English word Sabbath.
Notice it's also in genitive case.
So here we have the word for the, and we have the word for Sabbath,
both in genitive case.
So instead of being the Sabbath, it becomes of the Sabbath, right?
Just like this genitive makes it of man, of the Sabbath, all right?
So get that genitive case down.
So if we were to look at the literal word order in Greek, it would be therefore,
Lord is the son of man, also of the Sabbath, okay?
So the word order is a little different.
But basically what we have is, therefore,
the son of man is Lord, also of the Sabbath.
So we have the exact same meaning as we have in English,
just a dramatically different word order.
Now one thing that may help you understand that the word que means both and,
and it also means to or also.
I was thinking about this the other day.
I was pushing my kids in swings at the park, and
Steven and Anna were each in their little baby type swings.
And Anna wanted me to push her in the swing, saying, Daddy, Daddy,
come push me in the swing.
And then I came over and pushed her in the swing, and then she said, and Steven,
and Steven, and Steven, and she always says that.
Whenever she wants to be pushed in the swing, she always say, and Steven.
That's just a complete sentence to her.
And what she means is Steven too, or Steven also, right?
So there really isn't that big of a difference between the word and and also.
Okay, so when you see this word in Greek, depending on the context,
it either means and or also.
In this case, it means also.
Now let me just give you some tips.
As you're going through these lessons,
we've gone through a lot of verses so far.
In order for these lessons to really help you learn Greek,
it's important that you learn the verse.
And when I say learn it, I mean memorize it, okay?
One good way to do this also is to write out the verse over and over again.
That'll help you practice just writing out Greek letters and
just getting used to writing out Greek and so
that you can get better and better handwriting.
And also, it'll just help print it into your mind.
It'll help you get used to these breathing marks and accent marks and
everything like that.
So I would highly recommend as you go through these lessons that you memorize
the verse and that you write it out over and over again.
Maybe even while you're watching the video, just keep writing it out,
writing it out, writing it out.
That'll help you to learn faster as you go through these lessons.