OET interlinear LUKE 4:17

uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-time-sequential

καὶ

and

Luke uses the word And to indicate that the event he will now relate came after the event he has just described. Alternate translation: “Then”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive

ἐπεδόθη αὐτῷ βιβλίον τοῦ προφήτου Ἠσαΐου

/was/_handed_out ˱to˲_him /the/_scroll ˱of˲_the prophet Isaiah

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: “someone brought him the scroll of the prophet Isaiah”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

ἐπεδόθη αὐτῷ βιβλίον τοῦ προφήτου Ἠσαΐου

/was/_handed_out ˱to˲_him /the/_scroll ˱of˲_the prophet Isaiah

Since Jesus looked for a specific passage in the scroll, and since he said that it was being fulfilled right at that time, it is likely that Jesus requested this particular scroll. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could state that explicitly. Alternate translation: “at his request, someone brought him the scroll of the prophet Isaiah”

Note 4 topic: translate-unknown

βιβλίον τοῦ προφήτου Ἠσαΐου

/the/_scroll ˱of˲_the prophet Isaiah

A scroll was a long, wide roll of special paper. On this scroll someone had written the words that Isaiah had spoken many years before. If your readers would not know what a scroll is, you could describe it, or you could use a general expression. Alternate translation: “the special paper roll that recorded the sayings of the prophet Isaiah” or “the book that recorded the sayings of the prophet Isaiah”

Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive

τὸν τόπον οὗ ἦν γεγραμμένον

the place where ˱it˲_was /having_been/_written

If it would be helpful in your language, you could express this with an active form. Alternate translation: “the place where the scroll recorded the words”