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OET (OET-LV) And having_said this, he_breathed_on them and is_saying to_them:
Receive holy the_spirit.
Note 1 topic: translate-symaction
ἐνεφύσησεν
˱he˲_breathed_on_‹them›
When Jesus breathed on them, he did this symbolic action in order to show that he would give his disciples the Holy Spirit in the near future. If this would be helpful to your readers, you could explain its significance. Alternate translation: [he breathed on them as a symbolic action] or [he breathed on them to symbolically show that he was going to give them the Holy Spirit]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
ἐνεφύσησεν
˱he˲_breathed_on_‹them›
Here, breathed on refers to Jesus blowing air out of his mouth. It does not refer to the normal act of inhaling and exhaling air into one’s lungs. If this might confuse your readers, you could express the meaning explicitly. Alternate translation: [he blew air on them]
Note 3 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.
20:22 Jesus commissioned the disciples and then empowered them with the Holy Spirit. The Spirit had not been given previously because Jesus had not yet been glorified (7:39). The glorified Jesus, resplendent in his resurrected body, poured the Spirit on his followers. This gift fulfilled many promises that the Spirit would be sent (14:16, 26; 15:26; 16:7, 13). It foreshadows the arrival of the Spirit’s empowering presence at Pentecost (Acts 1:4-5; 2:1-47).
OET (OET-LV) And having_said this, he_breathed_on them and is_saying to_them:
Receive holy the_spirit.
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.