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OET (OET-LV) The Yaʸsous saw the Nathanaaʸl coming to him and he_is_saying concerning him:
Behold, truly an_Israelite in whom is not deceit.
Note 1 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 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
ἴδε
behold
John records Jesus using the term Behold to call his audience’s attention to what he is about to say. Your language may have a similar expression that you can use here.
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / litotes
ἐν ᾧ δόλος οὐκ ἔστιν
in whom deceit not is
Jesus is using a figure of speech that expresses a strong positive meaning by using a negative word together with a word that means the opposite of the intended meaning. If this is confusing in your language, you can express the meaning positively. Alternate translation: [a completely truthful man]
1:47 Jesus referred to Nathanael as a man of complete integrity, contrasting him with Jacob, the scheming, deceitful patriarch whom God renamed Israel (see Gen 25:27-34; 27:1-36; 32:22-32). It is as though Nathanael embodied God’s ideal for Israel.
OET (OET-LV) The Yaʸsous saw the Nathanaaʸl coming to him and he_is_saying concerning him:
Behold, truly an_Israelite in whom is not deceit.
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.