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OET (OET-LV) And answering to_ the _Yaʸsous/(Yəhōshūˊa) they_are_saying:
We_have_ not _known.
And the Yaʸsous is_saying to_them:
Neither I am_telling to_you_all by what authority I_am_doing these things.
OET (OET-RV) So they answered, “We don’t know.”
¶ And Yeshua also responded, “Well then, I won’t tell you about my authority to do those things either.”
Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-words-phrases
καὶ
and
Here, the word And introduces what the chief priests and scribes did as a result of what they said to each other. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use a word or phrase that introduces the result of an action. Alternate translation: “Therefore,” or “So then,”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / ellipsis
οὐκ οἴδαμεν
not ˱we˲_/have/_known
The Jewish leaders are leaving out some of the words that in many languages a sentence would need in order to be complete. You could supply these words from the context if it would be clearer in your language. Alternate translation: “We do not know where the baptism of John was from”
Note 3 topic: grammar-connect-logic-result
οὐδὲ ἐγὼ λέγω ὑμῖν
neither I /am/_telling ˱to˲_you_all
With the words Nor do I tell you, Jesus is indicating that this is the result of what the Jewish leaders told him. If it would be helpful in your language, you could include a word or phrase that introduces a result. Alternate translation: “Then I will not tell you” or “Well then, neither do I tell you”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns
ἐν ποίᾳ ἐξουσίᾳ ταῦτα ποιῶ
by what authority these_‹things› ˱I˲_/am/_doing
If your language does not use an abstract noun for the idea of authority, you could express the same idea in another way. See how you expressed the idea in 11:28. Alternate translation: “how I am empowered to do these things”
Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
ταῦτα ποιῶ
these_‹things› ˱I˲_/am/_doing
Here, the phrase these things refers to what Jesus has done since he arrived in Jerusalem, including driving people out of the temple, healing people, and teaching. See how you translated the similar phrase in 11:28. Alternate translation: “I teach, heal, and drive people out of the temple”
11:33 In answering, “We don’t know,” the religious leaders of the nation admitted that they could not answer a simple question that the people had no difficulty in answering: John was sent from God. They thus forfeited the religious leadership of the nation on this question. Their hardness of heart (3:5; 7:6), their unwillingness to see (4:12), and their deliberate refusal to accept the truth made further discussion fruitless. Their blindness and hostility toward God’s servants John the Baptist and Jesus, their desecration of the Temple, and their plot to kill Jesus all revealed why God’s judgment would come within that very generation (13:30).
OET (OET-LV) And answering to_ the _Yaʸsous/(Yəhōshūˊa) they_are_saying:
We_have_ not _known.
And the Yaʸsous is_saying to_them:
Neither I am_telling to_you_all by what authority I_am_doing these things.
OET (OET-RV) So they answered, “We don’t know.”
¶ And Yeshua also responded, “Well then, I won’t tell you about my authority to do those things either.”
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.