InterlinearVerse GEN EXO LEV NUM DEUT JOB YEHO (JOS) HERO (JDG) RUTH 1 SAM 2 SAM PSA AMOS HOS 1 KI 2 KI 1 CHR 2 CHR PROV ECC SNG YOEL (JOEL) MIC ISA ZEP HAB YIR (JER) LAM YNA (JNA) NAH OBAD DAN EZEK EZRA EST NEH HAG ZEC MAL 2 PS WIS TOB MAN BAR G DAN G ESD L ESD ESG JDT 3 MAC SIR 1 MAC 2 MAC 4 MAC YHN (JHN) MARK MAT LUKE ACTs YAC (JAM) GAL 1 TH 2 TH 1 COR 2 COR ROM COL LAOD PHM EPH PHP 1 TIM TIT 1 PET 2 PET 2 TIM HEB YUD (JUD) 1 YHN (1 JHN) 2 YHN (2 JHN) 3 YHN (3 JHN) REV
InterlinearVerse Yhn C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C8 C9 C10 C11 C12 C13 C14 C15 C16 C17 C18 C19 C20 C21
Yhn 7 V1 V3 V5 V7 V9 V11 V13 V15 V17 V19 V21 V23 V25 V27 V29 V31 V33 V35 V37 V39 V41 V45 V47 V49 V51 V53
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People tagged in the matching LV passage: Jesus Christ
Dictionary: Jesus
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
So there was division in the crowd because of Jesus.
So the people disagreed with each other because of Jesus.
Therefore the people could not agree with each other about Jesus.
So there was division in the crowd because of Jesus: This sentence means that the people in the crowd did not agree about Jesus. Some thought that he was the Messiah and others did not, so there was division (different groups that disagreed).
Here are other ways to translate this sentence:
Thus he was the cause of a division among the people. (REB)
So the people did not agree with each other about Jesus. (NCV)
So: The Greek conjunction that the BSB translates as So introduces the result of the different views of Jesus that were explained in 7:40–42.
there was division in the crowd: The noun phrase division in the crowd here indicates that people held different views and were arguing about them. It does not refer to being physically separated. In some languages it may be natural to translate this noun phase using a verb. For example:
the people were divided because of Jesus (NIV)
the people could not agree about him (NJB)
because of Jesus: This phrase indicates the reason for the division. The people were angry at each other because they had different opinions about Jesus.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns
σχίσμα & ἐγένετο ἐν τῷ ὄχλῳ
˓a˒_division & became in the crowd
If your language does not use an abstract noun for the idea of division, you could express the same idea in another way. Alternate translation: [the crowd was divided]
Note 2 topic: grammar-collectivenouns
ἐν τῷ ὄχλῳ
in the crowd
See how you translated crowd in 5:13.
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.