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

(Some words not found in SR-GNT: Παν κλῆμα ἐν ἐμοί μή φέρον καρπόν αἴρει αὐτό καί παν τό καρπόν φέρον καθαίρει αὐτό ἵνα καρπόν πλείονα φέρῃ)

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](../../gal/05/22.md). 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 (Some words not found in SR-GNT: Παν κλῆμα ἐν ἐμοί μή φέρον καρπόν αἴρει αὐτό καί παν τό καρπόν φέρον καθαίρει αὐτό ἵνα καρπόν πλείονα φέρῃ)

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]