I don't see anything about asking forgiveness and repenting nor anything about "being saved." All of these are Christian concepts invented after Jesus. He doesn't use these ideas at all. What is translated as "forgive" means "let go" as in dropping something. What is translated as "repent" means "change your mind" as in thinking differently. What gets translated as "being saved" is the idea of being "rescued" not from "evil" but from "worthlessness."
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Mary anoints Jesus's feet with oil. Judas complains that the money could be spent on the poor.
τJohn 12:8 τοὺς πτωχοὺς γὰρ πάντοτε ἔχετε μεθ᾽ ἑαυτῶν, ἐμὲ δὲ οὐ πάντοτε ἔχετε.
KJV Verse:John 12:8 For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.
John 12:8 You will always have the poor among you, but you will not always have me.”
Because these beggars at all times, you have among yourselves. Me, however, not at all timed, mes, have you.
Hidden Meaning:In the previous verse, Jesus addressed a single person, Judas. In this verse, he addresses tje group. The "you" changed from singular in the previous verse to plural in this verse. The word translated as "the poor" doesn't mean "poor" in the sense of simply lacking worldly goods. It means "beggars." It is the noun form of the verb meaning "to beg." It implies having no way to support yourself other than by asking others for support.
The NIV mistranslates verb "have" as the future tense, "will have," but the tense of the verb "to have" is in the present. The adverb "always" or "at all times" includes the past, present, and future, which requires the present tense.
Jesus also makes this idea personal by using a special pronoun in the phrase "with/among you." The "you" is not the common pronoun, but the reflexive, "among yourselves." This implies that some of those listening are also beggars, living off the donations of others.
We all start life as beggars, crying for what we need.
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This site provides tools so you can analyze what Jesus said in Greek even though you haven't invested the decade or so needed to master the language. From the information here, YOU CAN INTERPRET JESUS ACCURATELY FOR YOURSELF! This is impossible using any number of existing English translations. The articles about each verse provide detailed information on the Greek words, their meaning, and their form, and comparing them to the most popular translations. The goal is to reveal what is lost or obscured in translation by those wanting Jesus's words to support some given doctrine.
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This site does not promote any religious point of view. On the contrary, it seeks to avoid the competing dogmas that have shaped Biblical translation. Most tools for the study of "Biblical Greek" explain the Greek only in terms of how the Bible has been translated, not in terms of how people of the time would have heard Jesus.
Everyday word meanings at Jesus's time have been given a religious meaning they didn't have at the time. For example, the word for "student" becomes "disciple;'" the word for "writings" becomes "scripture." Words such as "prophet," "angels," "baptism," "hypocrite," "Christ," and many more are not translated at all but adopted into our language with their new, religious meanings. Different Greek words are hidden in a single English one so that the distinctions Jesus made are lost. Two different words are conflated into "love" but one means "enjoy" and the other, "care about." At least three different words with different meanings are translated as "good." Three others, are simplified as "evil." Four words are translated as "world." You may know that the word for "sin" doesn't mean that, not exactly, but did you know that the word translated as "forgive" doesn't mean that either? The Greek word translated as "word" doesn't mean "word" are all. It's that bad!
Now, perhaps none of this matters today to most Christians or to anti-Christians who think they know what Jesus said, but this site is for those who think the distinctions are important.