John 13:20
Whomsoever I send ( αν τινα πεμψω ). More precisely, "If I send any one" (third-class condition, αν=εαν and τινα, indefinite pronoun accusative case, object of πεμψω, first aorist active subjunctive of πεμπω, to send). This use of ε τις or εαν τις (if any one) is very much like the indefinite relative οστις and ος αν (or εαν ), but the idiom is different. In Mr 8:34f. we have both ε τις θελε and ος εαν while in Joh 14:13f. we find οτ αν and εαν τ (Robertson, Grammar, p. 956).
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