Video Transcript: Personal Pronouns

Personal pronouns. What are they? Personal pronouns are pronouns first, which means they have an antecedent. A pronoun is always standing in for some other noun. That's what we mean by antecedent. A personal pronoun is a pronoun  that has person. We talk about first person, second person, third person. But  first of all, what is an antecedent? Well, here we have a passage of scripture,  and you'll see the pronouns here highlighted, boldfaced. And notice here, and  behold, a Canaanite woman from that region came out and was crying, "Have  mercy on me. Me is a pronoun. The antecedent is this Canaanite woman.  Instead of repeating her identity, she says, "Have mercy upon me. He down  here is a pronoun, but he did not answer her. That is Jesus. And the disciples  say, "Send her away, for she's crying out after us. The antecedent of us is  disciples. So you'll see that a pronoun is an antecedent. That is the essential  characteristic of any pronoun. It has an antecedent. So next, what is person? I  already mentioned first, second, and third person. Let's imagine two people  talking together. This is probably the easiest way to understand this concept,  and the person speaking is what we would call first person. That's why we use  words like I, me, we, our to talk about the first person, which is speaking the  speaker, the person who's doing the talking. So it makes sense then that the  second person, when we use the term second person, we're referring to the one spoken to, the person who is receiving the message, and when we talk about  third person, we're talking about the one spoken of. So third person is not  somebody who's part of the conversation, except insofar as he's being spoken  of. So looking at a few examples here, then Pharisees and scribes came to  Jesus from Jerusalem and said, "Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they, what person are those? Well, your represents the person  spoken to, and is therefore second person. They represents the person spoken  of, and is therefore third person. So here Jesus is having a discussion, and  they're talking about the disciples, and the disciples are not part of this  conversation, and therefore they the pronoun is in the third person. Whereas  your that's Jesus, he is a part of this conversation, and he's the second person  because the Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus, and they are the ones  speaking to him. Another example. Then Jesus called his disciples to him and  said, "I. Now therefore we can see that I is first person, as well as me, because  he's the speaker, and first person is the speaker. So I have compassion on the  crowd because they have been with me now three days. So I and me are both  personal pronouns in the first person. Now here's two more verses from looks  like from Romans 10. Them is a pronoun in the third person. Who does the  commandments shall live by them. Commandments obviously is not a part of  the dialog here, and do not say in your heart that is pronounced in the second  person.