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OET (OET-LV) And the apprentices/followers having_approached said to_him:
For/Because_ why _reason are_you_speaking to_them in parables?
OET (OET-RV) After this, his apprentices came to him and asked, “Why do you speak to the people in parables?”
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / quotations
εἶπαν αὐτῷ, διὰ τί ἐν παραβολαῖς λαλεῖς αὐτοῖς?
said ˱to˲_him for_reason why in parables ˱you˲_/are/_speaking ˱to˲_them
It may be more natural in your language to have an indirect quotation here. Alternate translation: “asked him for what reason he spoke to them in parables.”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / yousingular
λαλεῖς
˱you˲_/are/_speaking
Here, the word you is singular since the disciples are speaking to Jesus.
Note 3 topic: writing-pronouns
αὐτοῖς
˱to˲_them
The pronoun them refers to the “crowd” that was standing on the shore of the sea to listen to Jesus (see 13:2). If this is not clear for your readers, you could refer to these people more directly. Alternate translation: “to the crowd”
13:10 From this point on, Jesus rarely taught the general public. Instead, he focused on teaching those who had committed themselves to him (13:1–20:34), though he would once again confront Israel (21:1–23:39).
• The people were the unbelieving opponents mentioned again in 13:11 (“others”) and 13:12 (“those who are not listening”).
OET (OET-LV) And the apprentices/followers having_approached said to_him:
For/Because_ why _reason are_you_speaking to_them in parables?
OET (OET-RV) After this, his apprentices came to him and asked, “Why do you speak to the people in parables?”
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.