John 18:22 — ExegesisTAB

The clause begins with a genitive absolute, tauta de autou eipontos {ταῦτα δὲ αὐτοῦ εἰπόντος | taû-ta dè au-toû ei-pón-tos} ‘when He had said these things,’ which sets the scene before the main action and keeps the statement temporally detached from the subject of the next clause. The phrase heis parestēkōs tōn hypēretōn {εἷς παρεστηκὼς τῶν ὑπηρετῶν | heîs pa-re-stē-kṓs tōn hy-pē-re-tôn} ‘one standing by of the officers’ narrows the crowd to a single representative, while the perfect participle emphasizes that he is already in place. The narrative core is carried by edōken rhapisma {ἔδωκεν ῥάπισμα | é-dō-ken rhá-pis-ma} ‘gave a slap,’ with the dative tō Iēsou {τῷ Ἰησοῦ | tō Iē-soû} marking the target of the violence. The participle eipōn {εἰπών | ei-pṓn} ‘saying’ attaches the insult directly to the blow, so the physical act and the verbal rebuke function as one aggressive sequence. Inside the quotation, houtōs {Οὕτως | Hoû-tōs} ‘thus, in this way’ is placed first for emphasis, foregrounding the manner of the offense before the challenge apokrinē tō archierei {ἀποκρίνῃ τῷ ἀρχιερεῖ | a-po-krí-nē tō ar-khi-e-reî} ‘do you answer the high priest.’ English rendering therefore turns the participial chain into a natural temporal clause and a reporting clause while preserving the abrupt escalation from speech to physical contempt.