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OET (OET-LV) The Yaʸsous is_saying to_him:
If I_may_be_wanting him to_be_remaining until I_am_coming, what is_it to you?
You be_following after_me.
OET (OET-RV) But Yeshua replied, “If I want him to stay alive until I come back, what business would it be of yours? You just stay following me.”
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: writing-pronouns
ἐὰν αὐτὸν θέλω μένειν
if him ˱I˲_/may_be/_wanting /to_be/_remaining
Here, him refers to John, the “disciple whom Jesus loved” in John 21:20.
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
ἔρχομαι
˱I˲_/am/_coming
Jesus uses come here to refer to the time in the future when he will return to earth from heaven. If this might confuse your readers, you could express the meaning explicitly. Alternate translation: “I come back to this world”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion
τί πρὸς σέ?
what_‹is_it› to you
Jesus is using a rhetorical question here to mildly rebuke Peter. 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: “that has nothing to do with you!”
Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
μοι ἀκολούθει
˱after˲_me /be/_following
See how you translated this sentence in 1:43.
21:1-25 This final chapter adds an account about the resurrected Jesus in Galilee (21:1-14) and records the exchange between Peter and Jesus concerning Peter’s love (21:15-23). The chapter ends by summarizing the authority and importance of John’s eyewitness report (21:24-25).
OET (OET-LV) The Yaʸsous is_saying to_him:
If I_may_be_wanting him to_be_remaining until I_am_coming, what is_it to you?
You be_following after_me.
OET (OET-RV) But Yeshua replied, “If I want him to stay alive until I come back, what business would it be of yours? You just stay following me.”
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.