OET interlinear YHN (JHN) 15:2

uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / exmetaphor

πᾶν κλῆμα ἐν ἐμοὶ μὴ φέρον καρπὸν & καὶ πᾶν τὸ καρπὸν φέρον & ἵνα καρπὸν πλείονα φέρῃ

every branch in me not bearing fruit & and every_‹branch› ¬which fruit bearing & in_order_that fruit more ˱it˲_/may_be/_bearing

Jesus speaks about people who claim to be his disciples but are not by continuing the metaphor of a vine. In this paragraph, Jesus uses branch to refer to both true and false disciples. He also uses bearing fruit, bears fruit, and bear more fruit to refer to living in a manner that pleases God, especially demonstrating the Christian qualities called the “fruit of the Spirit” in Galatians 5:22–23. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could express this metaphor as a simile. Alternate translation: “Everyone who claims to be my disciple but does not please God is like a branch in me that does not bear fruit … and every person who pleases God is like a branch that bears fruit … so that he might be like a branch that bears more fruit”

αἴρει αὐτό

˱he˲_/is/_taking_away it

Alternate translation: “he cuts it off of the vine and takes it away” or “he breaks it off of the vine and throws it away”

καθαίρει αὐτὸ

˱he˲_/is/_pruning it

The word translated prunes could mean: (1) to remove excess parts from a plant. Alternate translation: “he trims it” (2) to cause something to become clean. Alternate translation: “he cleans it” (3) to remove excess parts from a plant in order to make it clean. See the discussion of John’s use of double meaning in Part 3 of the Introduction to this book. Alternate translation: “he prunes it so that it will be clean”