Suppose I don't speak English, and I encounter this text:
The captain can run the ship with a run in her stocking while her crew members run a race on the run on deck 10.
If I'm struggling with the words, it's easy enough to think "run in her stocking" may refer to a physical activity done while wearing a particular kind of clothing. In other English texts, I find things like "she starts out each day with a run in her pink sweat suit". And "on the run" is a phrase we also find in many texts, with a different meaning. The sense we choose for each word affects the sense of the surrounding words.
As native speakers of English, it's hard to get it wrong, even for such a complex sentence, because we have such well-developed intuition for the language. But it's easy for a non-native speaker to get it wrong.
I think we ask ourselves questions about the sense of a word that a native speaker of Greek would not have asked in the New Testament era. And it's not always driven by an agenda.
ἐξίσταντο δὲ πάντες καὶ διηποροῦντο, ἄλλος πρὸς ἄλλον λέγοντες, τί θέλει τοῦτο εἶναι;
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