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OET (OET-LV) And he_was_saying to_them:
You_all are from the things below, I am from the things above, you_all are of this the world, I am not of the this world.
OET (OET-RV) Yeshua explained, “All of you are from the world below, but I’m from the world above. You all are part of this world, but I’m not part of it.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / you
ὑμεῖς ἐκ τῶν κάτω ἐστέ
you_all from the_‹things› below are
In 8:23–30 Jesus uses the plural form of you to indicate that he is speaking to the Jewish leaders. He is not speaking directly to those who believe in him. If this would confuse your readers, you could express the meaning explicitly. Alternate translation: “You Jewish authorities are from below”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
ὑμεῖς ἐκ τῶν κάτω ἐστέ
you_all from the_‹things› below are
The phrase from below could refer to: (1) the origin of the subject. Alternate translation: “You came from the things below” (2) the place where the subject belongs. Alternate translation: “You belong to the things below”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
τῶν κάτω
the_‹things› below
Here, John records Jesus using the things below to refer to this world. It does not refer to hell. If this might confuse your readers, you could express the meaning explicitly. Alternate translation: “You are from this lower world”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
ἐγὼ ἐκ τῶν ἄνω εἰμί
I from the_‹things› above am
The phrase from the things above could refer to: (1) the origin of the subject. Alternate translation: “I came from the things above” (2) the place where the subject belongs, which is heaven. Alternate translation: “I belong to the things above”
Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
ἐγὼ ἐκ τῶν ἄνω εἰμί
I from the_‹things› above am
Here, John records Jesus using the things above to refer to heaven. If this might confuse your readers, you could express the meaning explicitly. Alternate translation: “I am from heaven”
Note 6 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
ὑμεῖς ἐκ τούτου τοῦ κόσμου ἐστέ, ἐγὼ οὐκ εἰμὶ ἐκ τοῦ κόσμου τούτου
you_all from you_all of this ¬the world are I not am of ¬the world this
The phrase from this world could refer to: (1) the origin of the subject. Alternate translation: “You come from this world; I do not come from this world” (2) the place where the subject belongs. Alternate translation: “You belong to this world; I do not belong to this world”
Note 7 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
τούτου τοῦ κόσμου & τοῦ κόσμου τούτου
this ¬the world & ¬the world this
Here, this world refers to everything in the universe that has been corrupted by sin and is hostile to God. If this might confuse your readers, you could express the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “this sinful world … this sinful world” or “this world that opposes God … this world that opposes God”
8:23 Jesus’ listeners were from below; they could not comprehend Jesus’ meaning because he was from above (3:31; see study note on 3:3).
OET (OET-LV) And he_was_saying to_them:
You_all are from the things below, I am from the things above, you_all are of this the world, I am not of the this world.
OET (OET-RV) Yeshua explained, “All of you are from the world below, but I’m from the world above. You all are part of this world, but I’m not part of it.
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.