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OET (OET-LV) And Saulos was_raised from the ground, and the eyes of_him having_been_opened_up he_was_seeing nothing.
And leading_ him _by_hand, they_brought_in him to Damaskos.
OET (OET-RV) They helped Saul up from the ground, but even when he opened his eyes, he couldn’t see anything. So they had to lead him into Damascus by hand.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive
ἀνεῳγμένων & τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν αὐτοῦ
/having_been/_opened_up & the eyes ˱of˲_him
If your language does not use the passive form in this way, you could express the idea in active form or in another way that is natural in your language. Alternate translation, as in UST: “when he opened his eyes”
Note 2 topic: writing-pronouns
εἰσήγαγον
˱they˲_brought_in_‹him›
The pronoun they stands for the men who were traveling with Saul, as described in 9:8. Alternate translation: “the men who were traveling with him brought him”
9:1-19 The conversion of Saul of Tarsus on the Damascus road is of central importance to the narrative of Acts—Luke recounts the story three times (also 22:1-21; 26:1-29). Paul (Saul) also alludes to this experience several times in his letters (1 Cor 15:8-10; Gal 1:11-17; Phil 3:4-11; see 1 Tim 1:12-17). Saul’s conversion was his prophetic call and commission as an apostle (Acts 9:15; 22:15, 21; 26:15-18). No one is beyond the power of God to reach, redeem, and use for holy purposes—nothing is impossible with God (Luke 1:37). Paul was prepared through his training, upbringing, and experience to play a unique role in taking the gospel into the broader world as the “apostle to the Gentiles” (Rom 11:13; see 1 Cor 15:9; 2 Cor 12:11-12; Gal 1:1; Eph 3:8).
OET (OET-LV) And Saulos was_raised from the ground, and the eyes of_him having_been_opened_up he_was_seeing nothing.
And leading_ him _by_hand, they_brought_in him to Damaskos.
OET (OET-RV) They helped Saul up from the ground, but even when he opened his eyes, he couldn’t see anything. So they had to lead him into Damascus by hand.
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.