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OET (OET-LV) The Pilatos is_saying to_him:
What is truth?
And having_said this, he_came_out again to the Youdaiōns, and is_saying to_them:
I am_finding not_one Guilt in him.
OET (OET-RV) “Yeah. What is truth?” said Pilate.
¶ After he’d said this, Pilate went back outside to the Jews and told them, “I can’t find anything that he’s guilty of.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / pastforfuture
λέγει
/is/_saying
Here John uses the present tense in past narration in order to call attention to a development in the story.
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion
τί ἐστιν ἀλήθεια?
what is truth
Pilate is using a rhetorical question here to emphasize that he does not believe anyone really knows what truth is. If you would not use a rhetorical question for this purpose in your language, you could translate his words as a statement or an exclamation and communicate the emphasis in another way. Alternate translation: [No one can know the truth!]
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns
ἀλήθεια
truth
Here, truth refers to any true information. If your language does not use an abstract noun for the idea of truth, you could express the same idea in another way. Alternate translation: [What is true]
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / synecdoche
τοὺς Ἰουδαίους
the Jews
Here, the Jews refers to the Jewish leaders. See how you translated this term in 1:19.
Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
ἐγὼ οὐδεμίαν αἰτίαν εὑρίσκω ἐν αὐτῷ
I not_one (Some words not found in SR-GNT: λέγει αὐτῷ ὁ Πιλᾶτος τί ἐστιν ἀλήθεια καὶ τοῦτο εἰπὼν πάλιν ἐξῆλθεν πρὸς τοὺς Ἰουδαίους καὶ λέγει αὐτοῖς ἐγὼ οὐδεμίαν εὑρίσκω ἐν αὐτῷ αἰτίαν)
Pilate speaks of guilt as if it were an object that can be inside a person. If your readers would not understand this, you could express the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [I find no evidence that he is guilty of any crime]
18:1-40 After completing his farewell in the upper room (13:31–17:26), Jesus left the city and entered a garden just east of Jerusalem to pray. Here he was arrested, taken under guard into the city, and interrogated by the Jewish leaders. The climactic “time” that Jesus referred to repeatedly throughout the Gospel (see 2:4; see also study note on 12:23) was now at hand.
OET (OET-LV) The Pilatos is_saying to_him:
What is truth?
And having_said this, he_came_out again to the Youdaiōns, and is_saying to_them:
I am_finding not_one Guilt in him.
OET (OET-RV) “Yeah. What is truth?” said Pilate.
¶ After he’d said this, Pilate went back outside to the Jews and told them, “I can’t find anything that he’s guilty of.
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and VLT gloss are all thanks to the SR-GNT.