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OET (OET-LV) And was a_man of the Farisaios_party, Nikodaʸmos the_name to_him, a_ruler of_the Youdaiōns,
OET (OET-RV) After dark one evening, a Jewish leader named Nicodemus who was a member of the Pharisee party
Note 1 topic: writing-newevent
δὲ
and
Now here introduces a new event that happened some time after the events the story has just related in the previous chapter. The story does not say how long after those events this new event happened. Use the natural form in your language for introducing a new event. Alternate translation: “Some time later”
Note 2 topic: writing-participants
ἦν & ἄνθρωπος ἐκ τῶν Φαρισαίων, Νικόδημος ὄνομα αὐτῷ,
was & /a/_man of the Pharisees Nicodemus /the/_name ˱to˲_him
Here, there was a man is used to introduce Nicodemus as a new character in the story. Use the natural form in your language for introducing a new character. The phrase from the Pharisees identifies him as member of a strict Jewish religious sect. Alternate translation: “there was a man named Nicodemus, who was a member of a strict Jewish religious group”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
ἄρχων τῶν Ἰουδαίων
/a/_ruler ˱of˲_the Jews
This phrase means that Nicodemus was a member of the Jewish religious leadership, specifically the Jewish council called the Sanhedrin which made decisions about Jewish law. (See: council) If it would be helpful in your language, you could state this explicitly. Alternate translation: “a member of the Jewish ruling council”
3:1 John links 2:25 and 3:1 by referring to humanity as a whole (“human nature,” 2:25) and then to one specific man using the same Greek word (anthrōpos) in both verses.
• Nicodemus was saturated in religious knowledge and had witnessed Jesus’ work (2:13-24), but he had not experienced spiritual rebirth.
• a Pharisee: See study note on 1:24. He was elite, proud of his spiritual purity, and well educated in Jewish law.
OET (OET-LV) And was a_man of the Farisaios_party, Nikodaʸmos the_name to_him, a_ruler of_the Youdaiōns,
OET (OET-RV) After dark one evening, a Jewish leader named Nicodemus who was a member of the Pharisee party
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.