OET interlinear YHN (JHN) 9:34

uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion

ἐν ἁμαρτίαις σὺ ἐγεννήθης ὅλος, καὶ σὺ διδάσκεις ἡμᾶς?

in sins you /were/_born wholly and you /are/_teaching us

The Jewish leaders are using a question to emphasize their belief that this man was not qualified to question their opinion. If you would not use a rhetorical question for this purpose in your language, you could translate his words as a statement or an exclamation and communicate the emphasis in another way. Alternate translation: “You were completely born in sins, and you are not qualified to teach us!”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive

ἐν ἁμαρτίαις σὺ ἐγεννήθης ὅλος

in sins you /were/_born wholly

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: “Your mother bore you completely in sins”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

ἐν ἁμαρτίαις σὺ ἐγεννήθης ὅλος

in sins you /were/_born wholly

The Jewish leaders mention the formerly blind man being born in sins to imply that the sins of his parents had caused his blindness. If this might confuse your readers, you could express the meaning explicitly. Alternate translation: “You were born blind completely because of your parents’ sins”

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

ἐξέβαλον αὐτὸν ἔξω

˱they˲_cast_out him out

Here John uses threw him out to refer to him no longer being allowed to go into the synagogue and no longer belonging to the group of people who attend services at the synagogue. When people were thrown out of the synagogue, they were shunned by their local community. If this might confuse your readers, you could express the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: “he was forbidden to enter the synagogue” or “he was forbidden to belong to the synagogue community”