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OET (OET-LV) And tax_collectors also came to_be_immersed, and they_said to him:
Teacher, what may_we_do?
OET (OET-RV) Even some tax-collectors came to be immersed, and they asked Yohan, “Teacher, what should we do?”
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive
ἦλθον & βαπτισθῆναι
came & /to_be/_baptized
If it would be helpful in your language, you could express this with an active form, and you could state who did the action. Alternate translation: [came because they wanted John to baptize them]
Διδάσκαλε
Teacher
This is a respectful title. You can translate it with an equivalent term that your language and culture would use,
3:12 corrupt tax collectors: The word for “corrupt” is not in the Greek, but it accurately expresses the connotation that “tax collector” had for first-century readers. They despised tax collectors, who were notoriously corrupt and worked for the hated Roman authorities.
OET (OET-LV) And tax_collectors also came to_be_immersed, and they_said to him:
Teacher, what may_we_do?
OET (OET-RV) Even some tax-collectors came to be immersed, and they asked Yohan, “Teacher, what should we do?”
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.