OET interlinear ACTs 19:15

uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / hendiadys

ἀποκριθὲν & τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ πονηρὸν εἶπεν

answering & the spirit ¬the evil said

Together the words answering and said mean that the evil spirit responded to the sons of Sceva. Alternate translation: [the evil spirit responded]

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ πονηρὸν

the spirit ¬the evil

Luke assumes that his readers will understand that he is continuing the story he began in verse 13 after providing background material in verse 14. By the evil spirit, he means one to which some of the sons of Sceva were saying on a specific occasion, “I adjure you by the Jesus whom Paul proclaims.” Luke indicates in verse 16 that two of the sons were involved on this occasion. You can include this information if that would be helpful to your readers. UST models one way to do that.

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion

ὑμεῖς δὲ τίνες ἐστέ?

you_all but who_all are

The evil spirit is using the question form to emphasize that it does not know or respect these sons of Sceva the way he knows and respects Jesus and Paul, the representative of Jesus. 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: [but I do not know or respect you!]

Note 4 topic: writing-pronouns

ὑμεῖς & τίνες ἐστέ?

you_all & who_all are

The evil spirit is stating the pronoun you, whose meaning is already present in the verb are, for emphasis. If your language can state implied pronouns explicitly for emphasis, you may want to use that construction here. Other languages may have other ways of bringing out this emphasis. Alternate translation: [I certainly do not know you!]