ἐλάβομεν, (elabomen) in John 1:16: Verb First Person Plural Second Aorist Active Indicative

Verb: the form names an action or state, and here it describes the act of receiving in the sentence.

Second Aorist: commonly views the action as a whole event. It should not be treated as automatically punctiliar or automatically past in every context.

Active: presents the subject as doing or carrying the action.

Indicative: presents the verbal idea as an assertion or statement in the clause.

First person: the speaker or speakers are grammatically involved in the verbal form.

Not applicable: this verb form is not using noun case to mark its sentence role.

Plural: the form is marked for first person plural, so it presents the action as shared by the speaker and others.

Not applicable: this verb form does not use grammatical gender to make its point.

ἡμεῖς πάντες

The verb is shaped by the preceding subject phrase and stands in the clause with ἐκ τοῦ πληρώματος αὐτοῦ and the following gift language.

It states the received action of the group: all of us received, so the verse presents shared reception from his fullness.

It does not by itself identify the exact kind of receiving, nor does it replace the surrounding context about fullness and grace.

High: The verb states the shared reception from Christ's fullness.

First-person plural second aorist active indicative reception verb. reports shared reception from the stated source. Attached to all of us and the source phrase from his fullness. Governed by the statement about receiving from his fullness. The aorist presents the receiving as a whole action; the source phrase and grace language define what is received.

From where does the verse say all of us received? It says all of us received from his fullness.

Direct: The first-person plural aorist directly supports English wording such as "we all received."

The verb states reception; the surrounding fullness and grace language supply the substance of the claim.

Aorist receiving decides the full theology of grace by itself: The aorist reports reception; the clause and context define the grace being described.

The witness reads ἐλάβομεν in John 1:16 within the textus receptus tradition of the verse.

The lemma λαμβάνω commonly means to take or receive, so the form belongs to the semantic field of reception here.

The plural indicative fits a shared testimony: the speaker and companions say they received from his fullness, but the grammar does not specify every detail of how.

In context, the line communicates that believers have received from Christ's fullness and that the gift is grace upon grace.

This use fits the wider Johannine pattern of receiving as a response to divine giving, without forcing a narrower theological claim from the verb alone.

For readers and translators, the form supports a clear past reception by a group, which helps the sentence sound like testimony rather than abstraction.

Do not derive extra certainty about the manner, intensity, or timing of the receiving beyond what the verse's context states.