OET interlinear YHN (JHN) 18:38

uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / pastforfuture

λέγει

/is/_saying

Here John uses the present tense in past narration in order to call attention to a development in the story.

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion

τί ἐστιν ἀλήθεια?

what is truth

Pilate is using a rhetorical question here to emphasize that he does not believe anyone really knows what truth is. 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: “No one can know the truth!”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns

ἀλήθεια

truth

Here, truth refers to any true information. If your language does not use an abstract noun for the idea of truth, you could express the same idea in another way. Alternate translation: “What is true”

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / synecdoche

τοὺς Ἰουδαίους

the Jews

Here, the Jews refers to the Jewish leaders. See how you translated this term in 1:19.

Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

ἐγὼ οὐδεμίαν αἰτίαν εὑρίσκω ἐν αὐτῷ

I not_one (Some words not found in SR-GNT: λέγει αὐτῷ ὁ Πιλᾶτος τί ἐστιν ἀλήθεια καὶ τοῦτο εἰπὼν πάλιν ἐξῆλθεν πρὸς τοὺς Ἰουδαίους καὶ λέγει αὐτοῖς ἐγὼ οὐδεμίαν εὑρίσκω ἐν αὐτῷ αἰτίαν)

Pilate speaks of guilt as if it were an object that can be inside a person. If your readers would not understand this, you could express the meaning plainly. Alternative translation: “I find no evidence that he is guilty of any crime”