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OET (OET-LV) And the apprentices/followers of_him asked him saying:
My_great_one, who sinned, this man or the parents of_him, in_order_that he_may_be_born blind?
OET (OET-RV) and his followers asked him, “Honoured teacher, why was this man born blind? Was it because he himself sinned, or his parents?”
Note 1 topic: writing-quotations
ἠρώτησαν αὐτὸν & λέγοντες
asked him & saying
Consider natural ways of introducing direct quotations in your language. Alternate translation: “asked him, and they said”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
τίς ἥμαρτεν, οὗτος ἢ οἱ γονεῖς αὐτοῦ, ἵνα τυφλὸς γεννηθῇ?
who sinned this_‹man› or the parents ˱of˲_him in_order_that blind ˱he˲_/may_be/_born
This question reflects the ancient Jewish belief that sin caused illnesses and other deformities. See the discussion of this in the General Notes for this chapter. Alternate translation: “Teacher, we know that sin causes a person to be blind. Whose sin caused this man to be born blind? did this man himself sin, or was it his parents who sinned?”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive
ἵνα τυφλὸς γεννηθῇ
in_order_that blind ˱he˲_/may_be/_born
If your language does not use the passive form in this way, you could express the idea in active form or in another way that is natural in your language. Alternate translation: “so that he might be blind when his mother bore him”
9:2 The disciples assumed that someone’s sin—the man’s or his parents’—had caused him to be born blind. Jesus corrected this common belief (9:3).
OET (OET-LV) And the apprentices/followers of_him asked him saying:
My_great_one, who sinned, this man or the parents of_him, in_order_that he_may_be_born blind?
OET (OET-RV) and his followers asked him, “Honoured teacher, why was this man born blind? Was it because he himself sinned, or his parents?”
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and VLT gloss are all thanks to the SR-GNT.