OET interlinear YHN (JHN) 19:28

uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: writing-newevent

μετὰ τοῦτο

after this

After this introduces a new event that happened soon after the events the story has just told. Use the natural form in your language for introducing a new event. Alternate translation: [Soon afterward]

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive

ἤδη πάντα τετέλεσται

now all_‹things› /has_been/_accomplished

If your language does not use the passive form in this way, you can state this in active form or in another way that is natural in your language. Alternate translation: [he had already completed all things]

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

πάντα

all_‹things›

Here, all things refers to everything that God sent Jesus to the world to do. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express the meaning explicitly. Alternate translation: [all the things that God had sent him to do]

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive

τελειωθῇ ἡ Γραφὴ

/may_be/_completed the Scripture

If your language does not use the passive form in this way, you can state this in active form or in another way that is natural in your language. Alternate translation: [he might fulfill the scripture]

Note 5 topic: writing-quotations

ἵνα τελειωθῇ ἡ Γραφὴ

in_order_that /may_be/_completed the Scripture

Here John uses that the scripture might be completed to introduce a quotation from an Old Testament book (Psalm 69:21).If it would be helpful in your language, you could use a comparable phrase that indicates that Jesus is quoting from an important text. Alternate translation: [so that what is written in the Psalms might be fulfilled]

Note 6 topic: figures-of-speech / pastforfuture

λέγει

˱he˲_/is/_saying

Here John uses the present tense in past narration in order to call attention to a development in the story.