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People tagged in the matching LV passage: Jesus Christ
Places tagged in the matching LV passage: Galilee
Dictionary: Jesus
OET-LV Others were_saying:
This is the chosen_one/messiah.
But they were_saying:
For/Because the chosen_one/messiah is_ not _coming out_of the Galilaia/(Gālīl)?
OET (OET-RV) Others said, “He must be the messiah.”
¶ But some pointed out, “The messiah won’t come from Galil.
The people disagreed about who Jesus was. Some thought that he might be the Messiah and others said that it was impossible because he was from Galilee.
Here are some other possible section headings:
People in the crowd disagreed about who Jesus was
People argued about Jesus
Others declared, “This is the Christ.”
Others said, “This man is the Messiah.”
Other people who heard him said, “He is the Christ, the Chosen Savior.”
Others declared: This clause means “other people in the crowd.” These people were also among those who had heard Jesus’ words.
This is the Christ: The word Christ is a title. Jews used this title to refer to the person whom God appointed and promised to send as king and savior. The word Christ is the Greek translation of the Hebrew word “Messiah.” The two words have the same meaning.
See how you translated this term in 7:26c, 27b and 31b. See also Christ, Messiah in KBT.
But still others asked, “How can the Christ come from Galilee?
But other people asked, “Will the Messiah really come from Galilee?
But other people objected to this. They said, “The Christ will not appear/come out of the area/province of Galilee.
But still others asked: The Greek expression that the BSB translates as But still others asked introduces a disagreement with the statement in the previous sentence, that Jesus was the Messiah. Some other people in the crowd disagreed with the suggestion that Jesus was the Messiah.
Here are other ways to translate this expression:
Still other people asked (GW)
But others argued (REB)
How can the Christ come from Galilee?: This is a rhetorical question. The people used it to say that the Messiah would surely not come from Galilee (the implied answer is “The Messiah does not come from Galilee”). They believed that the Messiah would not come from Galilee, and they knew Jesus was from Galilee.
There are at least three ways to translate this rhetorical question:
Use a rhetorical question. For example:
How can the Messiah come from Galilee? (GW)
Use a statement. For example:
The Christ will not come from Galilee. (NCV)
Use a statement and a rhetorical question. For example:
But he can’t be! Will the Messiah come from Galilee? (NLT)
Translate this rhetorical question in a way that is natural in your language.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion
μὴ γὰρ ἐκ τῆς Γαλιλαίας ὁ Χριστὸς ἔρχεται
(Some words not found in SR-GNT: Ἄλλοι ἔλεγον Οὗτος ἐστίν ὁ Χριστός οἱ Δέ ἔλεγον μή Γάρ ἐκ τῆς Γαλιλαίας ὁ Χριστός ἔρχεται)
These people are using the form of a question to add emphasis. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express this type of question by translating these words as a statement or an exclamation and communicate the emphasis in another way. Alternate translation: [Indeed, the Christ surely does not come from Galilee!]
OET-LV Others were_saying:
This is the chosen_one/messiah.
But they were_saying:
For/Because the chosen_one/messiah is_ not _coming out_of the Galilaia/(Gālīl)?
OET (OET-RV) Others said, “He must be the messiah.”
¶ But some pointed out, “The messiah won’t come from Galil.
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.
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