εἶδόν (eidon) in John 1:50: Verb First Person Singular Second Aorist Active Indicative

Verb: the form names an action or state, here an act of seeing or perceiving in speech.

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.

Singular: the form is grammatically singular and refers to one speaker in the clause.

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

It is attached to the speech reported in Jesus' reply, especially the clause about seeing Nathanael under the fig tree.

The form is governed by the direct speech frame in the verse, where Jesus recounts what he said to Nathanael and uses first person singular reference to himself.

It functions as a first person singular aorist indicative statement of seeing, contributing to Jesus' claim that he observed Nathanael under the fig tree.

It does not by itself determine whether the seeing was physical, visionary, or idiomatic, and it does not alter the lexical identity of the verb.

High: The first-person seeing verb is repeated in Jesus question about Nathanael belief.

First-person singular second aorist active indicative seeing verb. recalls Jesus prior statement as the basis for the belief question. Attached to Jesus reported words about seeing Nathanael under the fig tree. Governed by the direct speech frame in Jesus reply. The verb supports the reported seeing claim; the question and promise that follow shape the interpretation.

What prior statement does Jesus refer to? The form recalls Jesus saying that he saw Nathanael under the fig tree.

Direct: The first-person aorist directly supports English wording such as "I saw."

The form should not be isolated from Jesus question about belief and the promise of greater things.

Seeing verb alone establishes the whole belief claim: The verb recalls Jesus statement; the surrounding question and promise supply the argument.

The witness reads εἶδόν in John 1:50 within a Textus Receptus form of Jesus' direct speech.

The lemma is ὁράω, a verb that can mean see, perceive, or experience depending on context.

The first person singular aorist active indicative fits Jesus' stated recollection, 'I saw you under the fig tree,' and serves the sentence's claim rather than a detached grammatical point.

In this verse the form supports Jesus' assertion that he knew Nathanael's hidden location, which leads into the challenge, 'Do you believe because I said this?'

Within the larger Gospel, the form fits scenes where seeing can carry both ordinary and revelatory force, but the immediate sentence controls the reading here.

For readers and translators, the form signals a straightforward past assertion and should be communicated as part of Jesus' spoken reply, not as a technical category by itself.

Do not derive omniscience, theology of sight, or a special mystical sense from the form alone; those claims would go beyond what the grammar can establish.