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People tagged in the matching LV passage: Jesus Christ
Dictionary: Jesus
OET (OET-RV) Yeshua responded, “Didn’t I choose all twelve of you myself? And yet one of you is the devil.”[fn]
6:70 The scriptures appear to teach that although there’s many ‘demons’, there’s only one ‘devil’.
This section describes Jesus’ followers dividing into groups. Many of them rejected Jesus’ teaching that he was the bread of life, and they stopped following him. But the twelve (12) apostles, with Simon Peter speaking for them, understood that Jesus brought them true words from God that give life.
Here are other possible titles for this section:
Simon Peter recognized that Jesus had the words of eternal life
Many of Jesus’ followers stopped following him
This paragraph tells the result of Jesus’ words. His disciples reacted in one of two ways: they rejected him or believed him.
Jesus answered them, “Have I not chosen you, the Twelve?
Then Jesus told them, “Have I not chosen you(plur), the twelve?
Then Jesus replied to his disciples, “I chose each one of you(plur) twelve disciples,
Have I not chosen you, the Twelve?: This is a rhetorical question. It is in a form that expects the answer “yes.” Jesus used it to say that he had chosen the twelve (12) disciples. There are two ways to translate this question:
Use a question. For example:
Have I not chosen the twelve of you? (REB)
Use a statement. For example:
I chose the twelve of you (NLT)
Translate this rhetorical question in a way that is natural in your language.
Yet one of you is a devil!”
But one of you(plur) is the devil!”
but one of you(plur) is controlled by the devil.”
Yet one of you is a devil: Jesus indicated that even though he had chosen the twelve disciples, he knew that one of them was evil. He did not say who this man was.
a devil: This phrase indicates that one of the disciples was controlled by the devil. Jesus was not saying that he was literally a devil.
Here are other ways to translate this phrase:
the devil (NET)
a servant of Satan (EASY)
under the control of Satan (T4T)
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion
οὐκ ἐγὼ ὑμᾶς τοὺς δώδεκα ἐξελεξάμην, καὶ ἐξ ὑμῶν εἷς διάβολός ἐστιν
(Some words not found in SR-GNT: ἀπεκρίθη αὐτοῖς Ὁ Ἰησοῦς Οὐκ ἐγώ ὑμᾶς τούς δώδεκα ἐξελεξάμην καί ἐξ ὑμῶν εἱς διάβολος ἐστίν)
Jesus gives this remark in the form of a question in order to emphasize that one of the twelve disciples will betray him. Alternate translation: [I chose you, the Twelve, myself, and one of you is a devil!]
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / nominaladj
τοὺς δώδεκα
(Some words not found in SR-GNT: ἀπεκρίθη αὐτοῖς Ὁ Ἰησοῦς Οὐκ ἐγώ ὑμᾶς τούς δώδεκα ἐξελεξάμην καί ἐξ ὑμῶν εἱς διάβολος ἐστίν)
See how you translated the Twelve in verse 67.
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
ἐξ ὑμῶν εἷς διάβολός ἐστιν
of you_all (Some words not found in SR-GNT: ἀπεκρίθη αὐτοῖς Ὁ Ἰησοῦς Οὐκ ἐγώ ὑμᾶς τούς δώδεκα ἐξελεξάμην καί ἐξ ὑμῶν εἱς διάβολος ἐστίν)
The word devil could mean: (1) one of Jesus’ twelve disciples was a wicked person whose thoughts and actions resembled those of the devil or was being influenced or controlled by the devil. It does not mean that this person actually was the devil in human form. It also does not imply that there is more than one devil. Alternate translation: [one of you is wicked like the devil] or [one of you is controlled by the devil]; (2) one of Jesus’ twelve disciples was speaking harmful and untrue things about Jesus to others. This meaning is possible because the word translated as devil can also mean “slanderer.” Alternate translation: [one of you is a slanderer]
OET (OET-RV) Yeshua responded, “Didn’t I choose all twelve of you myself? And yet one of you is the devil.”[fn]
6:70 The scriptures appear to teach that although there’s many ‘demons’, there’s only one ‘devil’.
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 CNTR.