I was playing around with a Greek inscription the other day and I thought I would share my work and see if anyone can  help in the areas I cannot decipher. The pictures is found here, and I learned of the inscription here. 

The apostle John...merely a simple fisherman right?  Not a lot of formal education or sophisticated literary training presumably.  Known for writing the "baby Greek" beloved of all first-year Greek students.  Yet beneath the apparent simplicity of his vocabularly, a complex, interwoven construction of deep ideas.

The question at hand, can you use the same word to mean two different things in the same verse...?

In my final year of Greek in seminary I found New Testament Greek Vocabulary, an audio recording of the Greek word frequency lists. And my score on the vocabulary tests improved. Since that time I have been looking for audio of the Greek New Testament that I can bear to listen to. There has been a freely available version out for a few years, but now there is a new one on the horizon. Logos has a new Greek Audio Bible in the works, but it has a karaoke twist to it. As you listen to the text, Libronix will highlight the text of the passage.

Currently Logos is finding out if enough people are interested in a, to publish it. When I signed up to show my interest, there was only 25% of the necessary interest. Now it is up to about 75%. Head on over there, see a video of it in action reading John 3:16 and 1 John 2:1, and sign up for it too. I am eager for this to be published.