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OET (OET-LV) And they_asked him, What therefore?
Are you Aʸlias/(ʼĒliyyāh)?
And he_is_saying:
I_am not.
Are you the prophet?
And he_answered:
No.
OET (OET-RV) So they asked him again, “Are you Eliyyah come back to life?”
¶ And he answered, “No, I’m not.”
¶ They asked, “Are you the prophet?”
¶ Again he answered, “No, I’m not.”
Note 1 topic: writing-pronouns
ἠρώτησαν
˱they˲_asked
Here, they refers to “the Jews,” mentioned in the previous verse. If it would be helpful in your language, you could state it explicitly. Alternate translation: [the Jews asked]
τί οὖν?
what therefore
Alternate translation: [If you are not the Messiah, then who are you?]
Ἠλείας
(Some words not found in SR-GNT: καὶ ἠρώτησαν αὐτόν τί οὖν σὺ Ἠλίας εἶ καὶ λέγει οὐκ εἰμί ὁ προφήτης εἶ σύ καὶ ἀπεκρίθη οὔ)
Elijah was a prophet whom the Jews expected to return to earth shortly become the arrival of the Messiah.
Note 2 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.
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
ὁ προφήτης
the prophet
Here, the Prophet refers to a prophet the Jews were waiting for, based on God’s promise to send a prophet like Moses, which is recorded in Deuteronomy 18:15. If this might confuse your readers, you could express the meaning explicitly. Alternate translation: [the prophet whom God promised to send to us]
1:21 Elijah was to be the Messiah’s forerunner (Mal 4:5). John the Baptist fulfilled the forerunner’s role, though he denied being the prophet Elijah (see Matt 11:14; Luke 1:17).
• Are you the Prophet we are expecting? Cp. John 6:14; 7:40-41.
OET (OET-LV) And they_asked him, What therefore?
Are you Aʸlias/(ʼĒliyyāh)?
And he_is_saying:
I_am not.
Are you the prophet?
And he_answered:
No.
OET (OET-RV) So they asked him again, “Are you Eliyyah come back to life?”
¶ And he answered, “No, I’m not.”
¶ They asked, “Are you the prophet?”
¶ Again he answered, “No, I’m not.”
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.