γὰρ

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 γὰρ

   gar

   for
2. sentence🔊 ἐμβλέψας αὐτοῖς ὁ Ἰησοῦς λέγει Παρὰ ἀνθρώποις ἀδύνατον ἀλλʼ οὐ παρὰ θεῷ πάντα γὰρ δυνατὰ παρὰ τῷ θεῷ

   em-BLE-psas au-TOIS ho ee-ay-SOOS LE-gei pa-RA an-THRÔ-pois a-DY-na-ton al ou pa-RA the-Ô PAN-ta gar dy-na-TA pa-RA tôi the-Ô

   having looked at to them the Jesus says with with humans impossible but not with God all things for possible with the God

Exegesis

The clause panta gar dynata {πάντα γὰρ δυνατὰ | pán-ta gár dy-na-tá} is a nominal sentence with an implied copula (“for all things are possible”), where panta functions as the subject and dynata as the predicate adjective, and the final prepositional phrase para tō theō {παρὰ τῷ θεῷ | pará tôi theō̂} specifies that this universal possibility is located “with God.” The repetition of para + dative with contrasting objects (anthropois / theō, tō theō) creates a clear rhetorical antithesis between human inability and divine omnipotence, which is preserved in translation by consistently rendering para as “with.”