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OET (OET-LV) Why are_you_asking me?
Ask the ones having_heard what I_spoke to_them, see, these have_known what I said.
OET (OET-RV) so why are you asking me? Ask the people who heard what I told them—they’re the ones who know what I said.”
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion
τί με ἐρωτᾷς?
why me ˱you˲_/are/_asking
Jesus is using a rhetorical question here to emphasize the truth of what he is saying. The Jewish law required the Jewish leaders to question witnesses first in legal cases. Therefore, Jesus is using this question to emphasize that the Jewish leaders are breaking their own law by questioning him instead of questioning witnesses. If you would not use a rhetorical question for this purpose in your language, you could translate his words as a statement or an exclamation and communicate the emphasis in another way. Alternate translation: “You should not be asking me these questions!”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
ἴδε
behold
Jesus uses Behold to call attention to what he is about to say. Your language may have a similar expression that you can use here. Alternate translation: “Take notice”
18:1-40 After completing his farewell in the upper room (13:31–17:26), Jesus left the city and entered a garden just east of Jerusalem to pray. Here he was arrested, taken under guard into the city, and interrogated by the Jewish leaders. The climactic “time” that Jesus referred to repeatedly throughout the Gospel (see 2:4; see also study note on 12:23) was now at hand.
OET (OET-LV) Why are_you_asking me?
Ask the ones having_heard what I_spoke to_them, see, these have_known what I said.
OET (OET-RV) so why are you asking me? Ask the people who heard what I told them—they’re the ones who know what I said.”
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and English gloss (7th line) are all thanks to the SR-GNT.