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OET (OET-RV) so the leaders collected a heavy fine from Jason and the others, and then released them.
Note 1 topic: translate-unknown
τὸ ἱκανὸν
¬the much
A bond was an amount of money that the city officials required Jason and the rest of the believers to pay as a guarantee of good behavior. The city officials would return the money if those men did not cause any further trouble. Your language and culture may have a term that you can use in your translation for this kind of monetary guarantee.
Note 2 topic: writing-pronouns
ἀπέλυσαν αὐτούς
˱they˲_sent_away them
The pronoun they refers to the city officials, and the pronoun them refers to Jason and the other believers. It may be helpful to clarify this for your readers. Alternate translation: “the city officials released them”
17:1-9 After traveling through Macedonia to Thessalonica, Paul preached to the Jews first (Rom 1:16) in the synagogue. Here, as elsewhere, there was a mixed response.
OET (OET-RV) so the leaders collected a heavy fine from Jason and the others, and then released them.
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 VLT gloss are all thanks to the SR-GNT.