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OET (OET-LV) And if I am_throwing_out the demons by Beʼelzeboul, by whom are_ the sons of_you_all _throwing_out?
Because_of this, they will_be judges of_you_all.
OET (OET-RV) but if I have Beelzebul’s power over demons, then whose power do your apprentices use to drive out demons?
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion
εἰ δὲ ἐγὼ ἐν Βεελζεβοὺλ ἐκβάλλω τὰ δαιμόνια, οἱ υἱοὶ ὑμῶν ἐν τίνι ἐκβάλλουσιν?
if and I by Beelzeboul /am/_casting_out the demons the sons ˱of˲_you_all by whom /are/_casting_out
Jesus is using the question form as a teaching tool. If it would be helpful in your language, you could translate his words as a statement. Alternate translation: [If I am making demons leave people by using the power of Beelzebul, then your followers must be using that same power.]
Note 2 topic: grammar-connect-condition-contrary
εἰ δὲ ἐγὼ ἐν Βεελζεβοὺλ ἐκβάλλω τὰ δαιμόνια, οἱ υἱοὶ ὑμῶν ἐν τίνι ἐκβάλλουσιν?
if and I by Beelzeboul /am/_casting_out the demons the sons ˱of˲_you_all by whom /are/_casting_out
Jesus is also using a conditional statement to teach. Specifically, he is suggesting a condition that is not true in order to show by the results of the condition that it is certainly not true. Alternate translation: [Suppose I am making demons leave people by using the power of Beelzebul. In that case, your followers must be using that same power themselves.]
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
εἰ δὲ ἐγὼ ἐν Βεελζεβοὺλ ἐκβάλλω τὰ δαιμόνια, οἱ υἱοὶ ὑμῶν ἐν τίνι ἐκβάλλουσιν?
if and I by Beelzeboul /am/_casting_out the demons the sons ˱of˲_you_all by whom /are/_casting_out
The implication is that the people challenging Jesus would not say that their own followers were using the power of Beelzebul, and so they should agree that he is not using that power himself. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could state that explicitly. Alternate translation: [If I am making demons leave people by using the power of Beelzebul, then your followers must be using that same power. But you do not believe that is true about them. So it must not be true about me, either.]
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
οἱ υἱοὶ ὑμῶν
the sons ˱of˲_you_all
Here, Jesus uses the word sons to mean “followers.” Alternate translation: [your followers]
Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
αὐτοὶ ὑμῶν κριταὶ ἔσονται
they ˱of˲_you_all judges will_be
If it would be helpful to your readers, you could express the implications of this statement more explicitly. Alternate translation: [your own followers will say that you are wrong for claiming that I make demons leave people by using the power of Beelzebul, because they know that they are not using that power themselves]
11:14-32 Jesus faced two challenges. He answered the first, an accusation that he was casting out demons by Satan’s power (11:15), in 11:17-26. The second was a demand for miraculous signs (11:16), which he answered in 11:29-32.
OET (OET-LV) And if I am_throwing_out the demons by Beʼelzeboul, by whom are_ the sons of_you_all _throwing_out?
Because_of this, they will_be judges of_you_all.
OET (OET-RV) but if I have Beelzebul’s power over demons, then whose power do your apprentices use to drive out demons?
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.