Γινώσκετε

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 Γινώσκετε

   yi-NO-ske-te

   Do you understand
2. clause🔊 Γινώσκετε τί πεποίηκα ὑμῖν;

   yi-NO-ske-te TI pe-POI-e-ka hy-MIN

   Do you understand what I have done to you
3. sentence🔊 Ὅτε οὖν ἔνιψεν τοὺς πόδας αὐτῶν ⸀καὶ ἔλαβεν τὰ ἱμάτια αὐτοῦ ⸂καὶ ἀνέπεσεν⸃, πάλιν εἶπεν αὐτοῖς· Γινώσκετε τί πεποίηκα ὑμῖν;

   HO-te OON E-nip-sen TOOS PO-das au-TON KAI E-la-ben TA hi-MA-ti-a au-TOU KAI a-NE-pe-sen PA-lin EI-pen au-TOIS yi-NO-ske-te TI pe-POI-e-ka hy-MIN

   therefore When the feet of them he washed and the garments of him he took and he reclined again he said to them Do you understand what I have done to you

Exegesis

The main clause then shifts to speech with eipen autois {εἶπεν αὐτοῖς | EI-pen au-Toîs} ‘he said to them’, followed by a direct question introduced by the present ginōskete {Γινώσκετε | gi-NŌ-ske-te} and completed by the interrogative ti {τί | tí} and the perfect pepoiēka {πεποίηκα | pe-POI-e-ka} ‘I have done’. The present combined with the perfect underscores an ongoing obligation to understand a completed act with continuing significance. In translation, the temporal and inferential linkage of hote oun is rendered with “When therefore” in the formal version and “After” in the dynamic version to keep natural English flow while preserving the causal connection. The chain of aorist verbs is kept as simple past forms, and the perfect pepoiēka is expressed as “I have done” to retain its aspect of abiding result, while the question structure is maintained to highlight Jesus’ interpretive shift from action to explanation.