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OET (OET-LV) And when they_neared to Hierousalaʸm/(Yərūshālayim) and came to Baʸthfagaʸ to the Mount of_ the _Olives, then Yaʸsous/(Yəhōshūˊa) sent_out two apprentices/followers
OET (OET-RV) When they were getting close to Yerusalem and arrived at Bethphage on the Mount of Olives, Yeshua sent two of his apprentices ahead,
Note 1 topic: writing-newevent
καὶ ὅτε
and when
Here, the phrase And when introduces the next major event in the story. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use a word or phrase that introduces the next event. Alternate translation: “Then”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / go
ἤγγισαν & ἦλθον
˱they˲_neared & came
In a context such as this, your language might say “went” instead of came. Alternate translation: “they went near … went”
Note 3 topic: writing-pronouns
ἤγγισαν
˱they˲_neared
The pronoun they refers to Jesus and his disciples. If this is not clear for your readers, you could refer to these people more directly. Alternate translation: “Jesus and his disciples came near”
Note 4 topic: translate-names
Βηθφαγὴ
Bethphage
The word Bethphage is the name of a village that was near Jerusalem.
Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit
πρὸς τὸ Ὄρος τῶν Ἐλαιῶν
to the Mount ¬the ˱of˲_Olives
Here Matthew implies that Bethphage is near the Mount of Olives. If it would be helpful in your language, you could make that idea more explicit. Alternate translation: “near the Mount of Olives” or “which is at the Mount of Olives”
21:1 Bethphage (a Hebrew name meaning house of figs) was probably located on the eastern slope of the Mount of Olives between Bethany and Jerusalem proper.
OET (OET-LV) And when they_neared to Hierousalaʸm/(Yərūshālayim) and came to Baʸthfagaʸ to the Mount of_ the _Olives, then Yaʸsous/(Yəhōshūˊa) sent_out two apprentices/followers
OET (OET-RV) When they were getting close to Yerusalem and arrived at Bethphage on the Mount of Olives, Yeshua sent two of his apprentices ahead,
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.