OET interlinear LUKE 22:51

22:51a

But: This verse begins with a common Greek conjunction that the BSB translates as But. Jesus responded to the action in 22:50 in an unexpected way. Several versions do not introduce the verse with a conjunction. Introduce it in a natural way in your language.

Jesus answered: In this context the Greek verb that the BSB translates as answered means “responded.” Jesus responded to what one of his disciples had done. He was not answering the question that they asked in 22:49b. Use an appropriate verb in your language. For example:

Jesus said

Jesus responded

No more of this!: The Greek idiom that the BSB translates as No more of this! is more literally “allow/stop until this.” The verb “allow/stop” is a plural command to the disciples standing there. But the meaning of the command is uncertain.Nolland (p. 1088) says, “The sense of eate eōs toutou (lit. [you plural] let [him/it be] up to/as far as/until this’) remains uncertain. Is ‘this’ the sword stroke, the imminent arrest, or the whole ‘disaster’ befalling the ministry of Jesus, beginning with the prospect of arrest? Perhaps the last, with the implication that this whole development is to be accepted as the will of God.” Marshall (p. 837) suggests three main views, preferring the second: “1. This gives the sense ‘Leave alone; thus far (and no further)’; i.e. ‘Stop; go only as far as this and no further’….2. Others supply autous as the implied object: ‘Let them (sc. the police) have their way’…i.e. ‘let them go even as far as arresting me’). Similarly, Creed, 274: ‘Let events take their course—even to my arrest’. 3. An older view…regards the words as addressed to the police: ‘Permit me, thus far (i.e. to touch the ear of the wounded man)’. The second view is perhaps to be preferred.” The first two views are not very different in the context, since commanding them to stop fighting and to let him be arrested are, in effect, the same command expressed with a different focus. Arndt (p. 451) says: “The words of Jesus cannot be addressed to the police and their assistants, because verse 52 introduces His remarks to them. He evidently speaks to the disciples. The view I hold is that eate forms a sentence by itself, signifying: ‘Let them do their work; do not hinder them,’ and that eōs toutou is an exclamation with the force of an imperative, saying in effect, ‘So far and no farther!’ ‘No more of this!’ That is, Jesus wants no more resistance.” Almost all English versions interpret it as the BSB does: Jesus was telling his disciples to stop fighting or to let the crowd arrest him. Translate this meaning in a natural way in your language. Some other ways to translate it in English are:

Enough of this! (GNT)

…Don’t resist anymore. (NLT96)

Stop! Do not fight anymore!

22:51b

And He touched the man’s ear and healed him: This clause does not indicate exactly how Jesus healed the man’s ear. It also does not indicate which part of the ear Jesus touched. Translate the clause in a natural way to indicate clearly that Jesus healed the man so that his ear was normal again.