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OET (OET-LV) And he_is_saying to_them:
Is_it_permitting on_the days_of_rest to_do_good or to_do_evil, to_save life or to_kill_off?
But they were_keeping_silent.
OET (OET-RV) And he asked the leaders, “Is it allowable to do good on the rest day, or only to do evil? To save life, or to kill?” But they didn’t reply.
Note 1 topic: writing-pronouns
αὐτοῖς & οἱ
˱to˲_them & they
Just as in 3:2, the pronouns them and they refer to the Pharisees who were there, as 3:6 shows. If this is not clear for your readers, you could refer to them more directly. Alternate translation: “to the Pharisees … they”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion
ἔξεστιν τοῖς Σάββασιν ἀγαθοποιῆσαι ἢ κακοποιῆσαι, ψυχὴν σῶσαι ἢ ἀποκτεῖναι?
˱it˲_/is/_permitting ˱on˲_the Sabbaths /to/_do_good or /to/_do_evil life /to/_save or /to/_kill_off
Jesus is using the question form to rebuke the Pharisees. He knows that they would agree with what his question implies. If you would not use the question form for this purpose in your language, you could translate this as a statement or an exclamation. Alternate translation: “I know that you realize that it is lawful on the Sabbaths to do good and not to do harm; to save a life and not to kill.” or “Surely you know that it is lawful on the Sabbaths to do good and not to do harm; to save a life and not to kill!”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
τοῖς Σάββασιν
˱on˲_the Sabbaths
See how you translated this phrase in 2:23. Alternate translation: “on any of the Sabbath days” or “during a Sabbath day”
ἀγαθοποιῆσαι ἢ κακοποιῆσαι
/to/_do_good or /to/_do_evil
Alternate translation: “to help people or to hurt people”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / ellipsis
ψυχὴν σῶσαι ἢ ἀποκτεῖναι
life /to/_save or /to/_kill_off
Jesus is 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 earlier in the sentence if it would be clearer in your language. Alternate translation: “is it lawful on the Sabbaths to save a life or to kill”
Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
ψυχὴν σῶσαι
life /to/_save
Here, the phrase save a life refers to preventing a person from dying. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use a comparable phrase or state the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “to rescue from death” or “to keep people from dying”
3:1-6 This account concludes the collection of controversy stories (2:1–3:6). As in the preceding story, Jesus is in conflict with the Pharisees over the Sabbath; as with the first story, the controversy involves a healing (2:1-12).
OET (OET-LV) And he_is_saying to_them:
Is_it_permitting on_the days_of_rest to_do_good or to_do_evil, to_save life or to_kill_off?
But they were_keeping_silent.
OET (OET-RV) And he asked the leaders, “Is it allowable to do good on the rest day, or only to do evil? To save life, or to kill?” But they didn’t reply.
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.