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OET (OET-LV) And having_watched_closely, they_sent_out spies pretending themselves to_be righteous, in_order_that they_may_catch of_him a_statement, so_that to_give_ him _over to_the rule and the authority of_the governor.
OET (OET-RV) So after watching Yeshua closely, they sent agents who pretended to be genuine inquirers so that they could catch him out on some careless statement and then they could hand him over to the rule and authority of the Roman governor.
Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-logic-result
καὶ
and
Luke uses the word And to introduce the results of what the previous sentence described. The religious leaders could not arrest Jesus openly, so this is what they did instead. Alternate translation: “So” or “Instead”
Note 2 topic: writing-participants
ἀπέστειλαν ἐνκαθέτους
˱they˲_sent_out (Some words not found in SR-GNT: καὶ παρατηρήσαντες ἀπέστειλαν ἐγκαθέτους ὑποκρινομένους ἑαυτοὺς δικαίους εἶναι ἵνα ἐπιλάβωνται αὐτοῦ λόγου ὥστε παραδοῦναι αὐτὸν τῇ ἀρχῇ καὶ τῇ ἐξουσίᾳ τοῦ ἡγεμόνος)
Luke uses this statement to introduce these spies as new characters into the story. It may be helpful to say more about where they came from. Alternate translation: “they found some people who agreed to act as spies, and they sent them to Jesus”
ὑποκρινομένους ἑαυτοὺς δικαίους εἶναι
pretending themselves righteous to_be
Alternate translation: “who pretended that they were sincere”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor
ἵνα ἐπιλάβωνται αὐτοῦ λόγου
in_order_that ˱they˲_/may/_catch ˱of˲_him /a/_statement
Luke says that these religious leaders wanted to take hold of something Jesus said, as if they could physically grasp his words. Alternate translation: “because they wanted to use something he might say against him”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy
αὐτοῦ λόγου
˱of˲_him /a/_statement
Luke uses the term word to mean something Jesus might say by using words. Alternate translation: “of something he might say”
Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / doublet
ὥστε παραδοῦναι αὐτὸν τῇ ἀρχῇ καὶ τῇ ἐξουσίᾳ τοῦ ἡγεμόνος
so_that /to/_give_over him ˱to˲_the rule and ¬the authority ˱of˲_the governor
The terms rule and authority mean basically the same thing. Luke is likely using repetition for emphasis. If it would be helpful in your language, you could combine these terms into a single, equivalent expression. Alternate translation: “so that the governor would take Jesus into custody” or “so that the governor would arrest Jesus”
20:1-47 In this series of controversies between Jesus and the religious leaders of Jerusalem, they repeatedly questioned and challenged him, and he repeatedly outmatched them with his spiritual wisdom, insight, and authority.
OET (OET-LV) And having_watched_closely, they_sent_out spies pretending themselves to_be righteous, in_order_that they_may_catch of_him a_statement, so_that to_give_ him _over to_the rule and the authority of_the governor.
OET (OET-RV) So after watching Yeshua closely, they sent agents who pretended to be genuine inquirers so that they could catch him out on some careless statement and then they could hand him over to the rule and authority of the Roman governor.
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.