μαθηταὶ

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 μαθηταὶ

   ma-thê-TAI

   disciples
2. sentence🔊 Τῇ ἐπαύριον ὁ ὄχλος ὁ ἑστηκὼς πέραν τῆς θαλάσσης εἶδον ὅτι πλοιάριον ἄλλο οὐκ ἦν ἐκεῖ εἰ μὴ ἕν καὶ ὅτι οὐ συνεισῆλθεν τοῖς μαθηταῖς αὐτοῦ ὁ Ἰησοῦς εἰς τὸ πλοῖον ἀλλὰ μόνοι οἱ μαθηταὶ αὐτοῦ ἀπῆλθον

   TÊI e-PAU-ri-on ho OKH-los ho he-stê-KÔS PE-ran tês tha-LAS-sês EI-don HO-ti ploi-A-ri-on AL-lo ouk ÊN e-KEI ei MÊ HEN kai HO-ti ou sy-nei-SÊL-then tois ma-thê-TAIS au-TOU ho ee-ay-SOOS eis to PLOI-on al-LA MO-noi hoi ma-thê-TAI au-TOU a-PÊL-thon

   On the next day the crowd the standing across of the sea saw that boat other not was there if except one and that not entered with the disciples his the Jesus into the boat but alone the disciples his went away

Exegesis

The adversative alla {ἀλλὰ | al-lá} introduces a contrasting clause: monoi hoi mathētai autou apēlthon {μόνοι οἱ μαθηταὶ αὐτοῦ ἀπῆλθον | mó-noi hoi ma-thē-taí au-toû a-pêl-thon} ‘but His disciples went away alone’, with monoi functioning predicatively to stress that only the disciples were in the departing boat. The Greek sentence is cumulative, with coordinated ὅτι-clauses and the final ἀλλά-clause layering observations that set up the mystery of how Jesus later appears on the other side. In translation, the two ὅτι-clauses are rendered as subordinate “that” clauses following “saw/realized,” and the contrastive ἀλλά is preserved with “but,” while word order is slightly adjusted to maintain natural English flow and keep the focus on the crowd’s perception and the contrast between Jesus and His disciples’ movements.