| 12. Linguistic Exegesis The inferential oun {οὖν | oun} links this sentence to the preceding narrative and marks the arrest as the immediate outcome of what has just happened. The subject is a coordinated chain of agents: hē speira {ἡ σπεῖρα | hē speîra} ‘cohort,’ ho chiliarchos {ὁ χιλίαρχος | ho khilíarkhos} ‘commander,’ and hoi huperetai tōn Ioudaiōn {οἱ ὑπηρέται τῶν Ἰουδαίων | hoi hypērétai tōn Ioudaíōn} ‘the officers of the Jews,’ with repeated kai {καί | kai} creating a deliberate piling up of responsibility. The aorist verb synelabon {συνέλαβον | synélabon} presents the arrest as a completed action, and the direct object ton Iēsoun {τὸν Ἰησοῦν | tón Iēsoûn} keeps Jesus as the focus of the clause. A second kai joins edesan {ἔδησαν | édēsan}, so the binding is not a separate episode but the immediate continuation of the arrest. The final auton {αὐτόν | autón} resumes Jesus without repeating the name, tightening the sentence and leaving the reader with the image of Him restrained. In English, the coordination is preserved, while the two verbs are rendered as consecutive actions to match the compact Greek narration and its sense of joint authority. |