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OET (OET-LV) Out_of the age it_was_ not _heard that anyone opened_up the_eyes of_ having_been_born _blind.
OET (OET-RV) In all the centuries past we never heard that a person could give sight to someone who was born blind.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive
οὐκ ἠκούσθη
not ˱it˲_/was/_heard
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: “no one has ever heard”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
ἠνέῳξέν & ὀφθαλμοὺς τυφλοῦ γεγεννημένου
(Some words not found in SR-GNT: ἐκ τοῦ αἰῶνος οὐκ ἠκούσθη ὅτι ἤνοιξέν τις ὀφθαλμοὺς τυφλοῦ γεγεννημένου)
See how you translated a similar phrase in 9:14. Alternate translation: “caused one having been born blind to see”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive
τυφλοῦ γεγεννημένου
˱of˲_blind /having_been/_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: “of one who was blind when his mother bore him”
9:1-41 At the Festival of Shelters (chs 7–8), Jesus claimed to be the light of the world (8:12). Now John tells about Jesus giving light, both physically and spiritually, to a blind man who lived in darkness (see 9:5). The story ends with a splendid reversal of roles: The blind man who was assumed to be in spiritual darkness could see God’s light, whereas the Pharisees, who could see physically and were thought to be enlightened, were shown to be spiritually blind.
OET (OET-LV) Out_of the age it_was_ not _heard that anyone opened_up the_eyes of_ having_been_born _blind.
OET (OET-RV) In all the centuries past we never heard that a person could give sight to someone who was born blind.
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.