LUKE 20:35 Interlinear View

1. Greek word
2. Greek lemma
3. OET-LV words
4. OET-RV words
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10. Confidence
11. OET tags
12. OET word #
1. οἱ
2. ho
3. the ones
4. -
5. 35880
6. R····NMP
7. the ‹ones›
8. the ‹ones›
9. -
10. Y33
11. 57748
1. δέ
2. de
3. but
4. but
5. 11610
6. C·······
7. but
8. but
9. -
10. Y33
11. 57749
1. καταξιωθέντες
2. kataxioō
3. having been considered worthy
4. considered worthy
5. 26610
6. VPAP·NMP
7. ˓having_been˒ considered_worthy
8. ˓having_been˒ considered_worthy
9. -
10. Y33; F57754; F57770; F57773; F57789
11. 57750
1. τοῦ
2. ho
3. the
4. -
5. 35880
6. E····GMS
7. ¬the
8. ¬the
9. -
10. Y33
11. 57751
1. αἰῶνος
2. aiōn
3. of age
4. -
5. 1650
6. N····GMS
7. ˱of˲ age
8. ˱of˲ age
9. -
10. Y33
11. 57752
1. ἐκείνου
2. ekeinos
3. that
4. -
5. 15650
6. E····GMS
7. that
8. that
9. -
10. Y33
11. 57753
1. τυχεῖν
2. tugχanō
3. to obtain
4. -
5. 51770
6. VNAA····
7. ˓to˒ obtain
8. ˓to˒ obtain
9. -
10. Y33; R57750
11. 57754
1. καί
2. kai
3. and
4. -
5. 25320
6. C·······
7. and
8. and
9. -
10. Y33
11. 57755
1. τῆς
2. ho
3. of the
4. -
5. 35880
6. E····GFS
7. ˱of˲ the
8. ˱of˲ the
9. -
10. Y33
11. 57756
1. ἀναστάσεως
2. anastasis
3. resurrection
4. -
5. 3860
6. N····GFS
7. resurrection
8. resurrection
9. -
10. Y33
11. 57757
1. τῆς
2. ho
3. which is
4. -
5. 35880
6. R····GFS
7. which ‹is›
8. which ‹is›
9. -
10. Y33
11. 57758
1. τῶν
2. ho
3. -
4. -
5. 35880
6. E····GMP
7. the
8. the
9. -
10. -
11. 57759
1. ἐκ
2. ek
3. from
4. -
5. 15370
6. P·······
7. from
8. from
9. -
10. Y33
11. 57760
1. νεκρῶν
2. nekros
3. +the dead
4. dead
5. 34980
6. S····GMP
7. ˓the˒ dead
8. ˓the˒ dead
9. -
10. Y33
11. 57761
1. οὔτε
2. oute
3. neither
4. -
5. 37770
6. C·······
7. neither
8. neither
9. -
10. Y33
11. 57762
1. γαμοῦσιν
2. gameō
3. are marrying
4. marry
5. 10600
6. VIPA3··P
7. ˓are˒ marrying
8. ˓are˒ marrying
9. -
10. Y33
11. 57763
1. οὔτε
2. oute
3. nor
4. -
5. 37770
6. C·······
7. nor
8. nor
9. -
10. Y33
11. 57764
1. γαμίζονται
2. gamizō
3. are being betrothed
4. -
5. 10610
6. VIPP3··P
7. ˓are_being˒ betrothed
8. ˓are_being˒ betrothed
9. -
10. Y33
11. 57765
1. ἐκγαμίζονται
2. ekgamizō
3. -
4. -
5. 15470
6. VIPP3··P
7. ˓are_being˒ betrothed
8. ˓are_being˒ betrothed
9. -
10. -
11. 57766

SIL Open Translator’s Notes:

Section 20:27–40: Sadducees asked Jesus a trick question about the resurrection

The Jewish leaders continued to challenge Jesus’ authority and the things that he was teaching. In this section some Sadducees asked Jesus a question to try to show that his teaching was wrong. Like the Pharisees, the Sadducees were another group of Jewish leaders with certain religious beliefs. Many of the Sadducees were priests. They did not believe that God would cause anyone who had died to live again.

Jesus taught that God does cause people who have died to live again. The Sadducees tried to use this belief to trick Jesus in 20:27–40. They told a story to ridicule these beliefs that Jesus taught. The story was not true, but they used it to ask a question. They thought that if a person believed that people who died could live again, there was no sensible answer to the question.

The Sadducees based their story on the custom that is described in Deuteronomy 25:5–6. This scripture teaches that if an Israelite woman did not have any children by her husband before he died, her husband’s brother should marry her. Their first child would have the name of his dead brother and would be the heir of the dead brother.This custom was called levirate marriage. Jewish people considered the first son that the widow bore after marrying the brother of her dead husband to be the son of her dead husband, not the son of the man who was now her husband. This meant that this son and his descendants would carry on the dead man’s family and family name through future generations. Any sons born after this to the woman and her living husband would carry on the name of the living husband for future generations. In that way, the dead man’s family and family name could continue through future generations. Since the Scripture taught this custom, the Sadducees believed that they could prove from Scripture that Jesus was wrong.

Examples of headings for this section are:

The Question about Rising from Death (GNT)

Do the dead rise again?

The Sadducees challenged Jesus on people rising from death

Parallel passages for this section are found in Matthew 22:23–33 and Mark 12:18–27.

Paragraph 20:34–38

In this paragraph Jesus gave the Sadducees an answer that had two parts:

In 20:34–36, he explained that when people die and live again, they will have a new kind of life. They will not marry, just as angels do not marry. (See the notes on 20:36a–b.)
In 20:37–38, he reminded them what God said in one of the books of Moses. God indicated that the great ancestors of the Jewish people were still alive with him. This showed that God does cause people to live again after they die.

20:35a

But those who are considered worthy

But the people who are judged as worthy
But people whom God accounts/judges fit
But when God says that certain people are worthy

20:35b

to share in the age to come and in the resurrection from the dead

to live in the age/time when good/righteous people become alive again
to live again after they die and to share/be in the future age/world
to rise from death and live with him in heaven,

20:35a–b

But those who are considered worthy: The phrase those who are considered worthy contrasts with the “sons/people of this age” in 20:34. Express the contrast in a natural way in your language. Another way to do this is:

As for those who are considered worthy

This phrase applies in general to anyone and everyone who is considered worthy. Some other ways to translate it are:

Anyone who is considered worthy

If a person is considered worthy

Since this verse tells what such people will not do, the CEV has:

no one who is worthy (CEV)

Translate the phrase in a natural way in your language.

those who are considered worthy: The phrase those who are considered worthy refers here to people whom God regards as worthy to live in the coming age. They are the people who were righteous during their life on earth.

The verb are considered worthy is passive. Some ways to translate it are:

Use a passive verb. For example:
those who are regarded as worthy (NET)
Use an active verb and supply God as the subject. For example:
those whom God considers worthy
Focus on the meaning worthy and leave the meaning considered implied. For example:
those who will be worthy (NCV)

Translate the meaning in a natural way in your language.

to share in the age to come and in the resurrection from the dead: The Greek verb that the BSB translates as to share means “to experience, attain.”See BDAG (tugchanō), p. 1018, for more information. This is a general meaning that can be translated in different ways in various contexts. The word gets its specific meaning from the context where it occurs. Some ways to translate it here are:

worthy to share in that age and in the resurrection from the dead (NET)

worthy of a place in that age and in the resurrection from the dead

In some languages the meaning to share in is implied in the context and does not need to be translated explicitly. For example:

worthy to rise from death and live in the age to come (GNT)

worthy to come back to life and live in the next world (GW)

in the age to come and in the resurrection from the dead: In this context the phrases the age to come and the resurrection from the dead have a similar meaning. The phrase the age refers to the future time that the Sadducees called “in the resurrection” at 20:33. People will rise from the dead and live in the new age. That new age is sometimes identified as heaven.

In some languages it may be helpful to reverse the order of the phrases the age to come and the resurrection from the dead. For example:

worthy to be made alive again from the dead and to live in heavenYakan back translation on TW.

worthy of being raised from the dead and living in heavenWestern Bukidnon Manobo back translation on TW.

the age to come: The phrase the age to come is in contrast to “this age,” or this present world, mentioned in 20:34. The same Greek word for age is used in both 20:34 and 20:35. Use a natural way in your language to make the contrast clear.

20:35c

will neither marry nor be given in marriage.

will not marry or be married.
will not marry one another.
those people will not marry or be married there.

will neither marry nor be given in marriage: The people, both men and women, whom God causes to live again, will not marry. No one in that age will get married, and no one will continue to be the husband or wife of the person they were married to on this earth. See how you translated the similar phrase “marry and are given in marriage” in 20:34. Some ways to translate this phrase are:

will not then marry (GNT)

do not marry (NJB)

uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive

οἱ & καταξιωθέντες & οὔτε γαμοῦσιν οὔτε γαμίζονται

the_‹ones› & ˓having_been˒_considered_worthy & neither ˓are˒_marrying nor ˓are_being˒_betrothed

As in [20:34](../20/34.md), if your language does not use passive verbal forms, but your culture does use different expressions for men and women when they marry, you can use two different active verbal forms here, and you can specify the agent in the second case. Alternate translation: [among the people whom God considers worthy … the men will not marry wives and parents will not give their daughters in marriage to husbands]

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive

οἱ & καταξιωθέντες

the_‹ones› & ˓having_been˒_considered_worthy

If it would be helpful in your language, you could express this with an active form, and you could state who does the action. Alternate translation: [the people whom God considers worthy]

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

τοῦ αἰῶνος ἐκείνου, τυχεῖν καὶ τῆς ἀναστάσεως τῆς ἐκ νεκρῶν

¬the ˱of˲_age that ˓to˒_obtain (Some words not found in SR-GNT: οἱ δέ καταξιωθέντες τοῦ αἰῶνος ἐκείνου τυχεῖν καί τῆς ἀναστάσεως τῆς ἐκ νεκρῶν οὔτε γαμοῦσιν οὔτε γαμίζονται)

Jesus is using the word age in the same figurative sense as in [18:30](../18/30.md), to mean the new world that God will introduce after the end of this present world. See how you translated the expression there. Alternate translation: [to live in his new world when he brings back to life the people who have died]

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns

καὶ τῆς ἀναστάσεως τῆς ἐκ νεκρῶν

(Some words not found in SR-GNT: οἱ δέ καταξιωθέντες τοῦ αἰῶνος ἐκείνου τυχεῖν καί τῆς ἀναστάσεως τῆς ἐκ νεκρῶν οὔτε γαμοῦσιν οὔτε γαμίζονται)

If it would be helpful in your language, you could express the idea behind the abstract noun resurrection with an equivalent expression. Alternate translation: [when he brings back to life the people who have died]

Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / nominaladj

νεκρῶν

˓the˒_dead

Jesus is using the adjective dead as a noun in order to indicate a group of people. Your language may use adjectives in the same way. If not, you could translate this with an equivalent expression. Alternate translation: [the people who have died]

Note 6 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom

οὔτε γαμοῦσιν οὔτε γαμίζονται

neither ˓are˒_marrying nor ˓are_being˒_betrothed

If your culture does not use different expressions for men and women when they marry, you may have you translated this with a single term in [20:34](../20/34.md). If so, you could do the same thing here. Alternate translation: [will not get married]

OET-LV English word order (‘Reverse’ interlinear)

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 CNTR.

OET interlinear LUKE 20:35