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OET (OET-LV) The law and the prophets were until Yōannaʸs, from then the kingdom of_ the _god is_being_good_message_preached, and everyone is_forcing into it.
OET (OET-RV) “The Hebrew scriptures were preached until Yohan-the-immerser started preaching the good message about God’s kingdom, now everyone is striving to get into it,
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / merism
ὁ νόμος καὶ οἱ προφῆται
the law and the prophets_‹were›
Jesus is referring to all of God’s word that had been written up to that time. He is using the names of two of its major components to do so. Alternate translation: “The Scriptures”
μέχρι
until
Alternate translation: “led up to the time of”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
Ἰωάννου
John
Jesus assumes that the Pharisees will know that he is referring to John the Baptist. Alternate translation: “John the Baptist”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive
ἡ Βασιλεία τοῦ Θεοῦ εὐαγγελίζεται
the Kingdom ¬the ˱of˲_God /is_being/_gospel_preached
If it would be helpful in your language, you could express this with an active form, and you could state who has been doing the action. Alternate translation: “I have been teaching people the good news about the kingdom of God”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns
ἡ Βασιλεία τοῦ Θεοῦ
the Kingdom ¬the ˱of˲_God
See how you decided to translate this phrase in 4:43. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express the idea behind the abstract noun kingdom with a verb such as “rule.” Alternate translation: “how God will rule”
Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / hyperbole
πᾶς εἰς αὐτὴν βιάζεται
everyone into it /is/_forcing
Jesus says that people have been forcing their way into the kingdom to mean that they have been doing everything they can to enter it. Alternate translation: “people have been doing everything they can to enter it”
Note 6 topic: figures-of-speech / hyperbole
πᾶς
everyone
The term everyone is a generalization for emphasis. Alternate translation: “people”
16:16 John the Baptist was a transitional figure—the last in the line of Old Testament prophets and the herald of the age of salvation (see 1:5-25, 57-80; 3:1-20; 7:18-35).
• everyone is eager to get in: The verb normally means “to suffer violence” and may have the negative sense of violent force into or against the Kingdom (see Matt 11:12). More likely, it carries here a positive sense of urgency to enter the Kingdom.
OET (OET-LV) The law and the prophets were until Yōannaʸs, from then the kingdom of_ the _god is_being_good_message_preached, and everyone is_forcing into it.
OET (OET-RV) “The Hebrew scriptures were preached until Yohan-the-immerser started preaching the good message about God’s kingdom, now everyone is striving to get into it,
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.