| 18. Linguistic Exegesis The verse begins with the attention-getting particle idou {Ἰδοὺ | i-doú} ‘behold, look’, functioning as a discourse marker signaling a major announcement. The main finite verb anabainomen {ἀναβαίνομεν | a-na-baí-no-men} ‘we are going up’ is present active indicative first person plural, conveying imminent movement toward the sacred city defined by the prepositional phrase eis Hierosolyma {εἰς Ἱεροσόλυμα | eis Hi-e-ro-só-ly-ma} ‘into Jerusalem’. The following nominal phrase ho huios tou anthropou {ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου | ho huiós tou an-thrṓ-pou} functions as a titular expression that evokes Daniel 7 imagery and highlights the exalted yet suffering Messiah. The future passive verb paradothesetai {παραδοθήσεται | pa-ra-do-thḗ-se-tai} ‘will be handed over’ is understood as a divine passive, indicating divine sovereignty over the betrayal. The recipients of this action are marked by the dative article and nouns tois archiereusin kai grammateusin {τοῖς ἀρχιερεῦσιν καὶ γραμματεῦσιν | toîs ar-khi-e-reû-sin kaí gram-ma-teû-sin}, specifying the chief priests and scribes as the institutional authorities. The coordinated future active verb katakrinousin {κατακρινοῦσιν | ka-ta-kri-noû-sin} ‘they will condemn’ takes auton {αὐτὸν | au-tón} as its object and relates to the resulting dative thanato {θανάτῳ | tha-ná-tō} ‘to death’, functioning as a dative of result specifying the verdict’s outcome. The Greek conjunction kai {καὶ | kaí} is retained to preserve the step-by-step progression from ascent to betrayal to condemnation, while English punctuation organizes the complex clause structure for readability. |