YHN 10:13 Parallel Verse View

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Text critical issues=small word differences Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal (All still tentative.)

Key: khaki:verbs, light-green:nominative/subject, pink:genitive/possessor, cyan:dative/indirect object, red:negative.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

UST The hired man runs away because he was only protecting the sheep in order to receive money. He does not care about what happens to the sheep.

BSB [ The man runs away ] because he is a hired servant and is unconcerned for the sheep.

10:13 Literally The hired servant; CT literal He

AICNT [[But the hired hand flees]][fn] because he is a hired hand and does not care about the sheep.

10:13, But the hired hand flees: Some manuscripts include. A(02) Latin(a b ff2) BYZ TR ‖ Absent from P*45 P*66 P*77 N*(01) B(03) D(05) W(032) Latin(d e) NA28 SBLGNT THGNT

OEB He does this because he is only a hired man and does not care about the sheep.

WEBBE The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand and doesn’t care for the sheep.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET Because he is a hired hand and is not concerned about the sheep, he runs away.

LSV and the hired worker flees because he is a hired worker, and is not caring for the sheep.

FBV for the man is only working for pay and doesn't care about the sheep.

TCNT [fn]The hired hand flees, for he is a hired hand and does not care about the sheep.

10:13 The hired hand flees, for ¦ For CT

T4T The worker runs away because he is only a man whom someone has hired. He is not really concerned about what happens to the sheep [MET]. Similarly, your religious teachers do not really care what happens to you.

LEB because he is a hired hand and _⌊he is not concerned_⌋[fn] about the sheep.

10:13 Literally “it is not a concern to him”

BBE Because he is a servant he has no interest in the sheep.

Moff just because he is a hired man, who has no interest in the sheep.

Wymth For he is only a hired servant and cares nothing for the sheep.

ASV he fleeth because he is a hireling, and careth not for the sheep.

DRA And the hireling flieth, because he is a hireling: and he hath no care for the sheep.

YLT and the hireling doth flee because he is an hireling, and is not caring for the sheep.

Drby Now he who serves for wages flees because he serves for wages, and is not himself concerned about the sheep.

RV he fleeth because he is a hireling, and careth not for the sheep.

SLT The hired flees, because he is hired, and no care is to him for the sheep.

Wbstr The hireling fleeth, because he is a hireling, and careth not for the sheep.

KJB-1769 The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.

KJB-1611 The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, & careth not for the sheepe.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above)

Bshps The hyrelyng fleeth, because he is an hyrelyng, and careth not for the sheepe.
(The hyreling fleeth, because he is an hyreling, and careth not for the sheep.)

Gnva So the hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheepe.
(So the hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep. )

Cvdl But the hyred seruaut flyeth, because he is an hyred seruaunte, and careth not for the shepe.
(But the hired servant flieth/flies, because he is an hired servant, and careth not for the sheep.)

TNT The heyred servaut flyeth because he is an heyred servaunt and careth not for the shepe.
(The heyred servant flieth/flies because he is an heyred servant and careth not for the sheep. )

Wycl And the hirid hyne fleeth, for he is an hirid hyne, and it parteyneth not to hym of the scheep.
(And the hired hyne fleeth, for he is an hired hyne, and it pertaineth/pertains not to him of the sheep.)

Luth Der Mietling aber flieht; denn er ist ein Mietling und achtet der Schafe nicht.
(The Mietling but flieht; because/than he is a Mietling and pay_attention the/of_the sheep not.)

ClVg mercenarius autem fugit, quia mercenarius est, et non pertinet ad eum de ovibus.
(mercenary however he_fled, because mercenary it_is, and not/no belongs to him from/about sheep. )

UGNT ὅτι μισθωτός ἐστιν καὶ οὐ μέλει αὐτῷ περὶ τῶν προβάτων.
(hoti misthōtos estin kai ou melei autōi peri tōn probatōn.)

SBL-GNT ⸀ὅτι μισθωτός ἐστιν καὶ οὐ μέλει αὐτῷ περὶ τῶν προβάτων.
(⸀hoti misthōtos estin kai ou melei autōi peri tōn probatōn.)

RP-GNT Ὁ δὲ μισθωτὸς φεύγει, ὅτι μισθωτός ἐστιν, καὶ οὐ μέλει αὐτῷ περὶ τῶν προβάτων.
(Ho de misthōtos feugei, hoti misthōtos estin, kai ou melei autōi peri tōn probatōn.)

TC-GNT [fn]Ὁ δὲ μισθωτὸς φεύγει, ὅτι μισθωτός ἐστι, καὶ οὐ μέλει αὐτῷ περὶ τῶν προβάτων.
(Ho de misthōtos feugei, hoti misthōtos esti, kai ou melei autōi peri tōn probatōn. )

10:13 ο δε μισθωτος φευγει ¦ — CT

Key for above GNTs: yellow:punctuation differs, red:words differ (from our SR-GNT base).

SOTN SIL Open Translator’s Notes:

Section 10:1–21: Jesus is the good shepherd

In this section Jesus talked about how he related to his people, his followers. He compared himself to the door of the sheep pen and to the shepherd. This comparison is something like a parable, but there is no actual story or narrative. It is more like a word picture, or a series of word pictures linked by the theme of sheep farming. It can also be described as an extended metaphor.

First Jesus compares himself to the door of the sheep pen because he is the way to salvation. Then he compares himself to the good shepherd because he leads and cares for his people as a shepherd does his sheep.

Here are other possible section headings:

Jesus is the shepherd of his people

Jesus told the parable/story of the good shepherd and his sheep

Jesus compared himself to a shepherd and the door/gate to a sheep pen

Paragraph 10:11–16

Jesus changed the metaphor in this paragraph. In this new metaphor, the shepherd represents Jesus, the sheep again represent believers, and the hired hand represents bad Jewish leaders. The contrast here is that Jesus cares well for the sheep while the bad leaders only think about themselves.

10:13a

The man runs away

The hired man does not stay with the sheep
The paid worker/employee escapes from the danger

10:13b

because he is a hired servant and is unconcerned for the sheep.

because he is only a hired man and he is not concerned about the sheep.
because he works only for his pay, and the sheep do not matter to him.

10:13a–b

The man runs away because he is a hired servant and is unconcerned for the sheep: The Greek text is more literally “because he is a hired hand and does not care about the sheep.” The word because introduces the reason why the hired man runs away (flees) (10:12a–b). So the BSB begins a new sentence here and supplies the words The man runs away. In many languages it may be natural to supply a similar clause. In the following examples the words that were supplied are underlined:

He flees because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep. (ESV)

The man runs away because he is a hired man and cares nothing for the sheep. (REB)

The hired hand runs away because he’s working only for the money and doesn’t really care about the sheep. (NLT)

because he is a hired servant and is unconcerned for the sheep: The word because introduces the reason the man ran away: he does not care about protecting the sheep. He is not concerned about their safety. He only took care of the sheep because he wanted his wages. You may want to make this implied information explicit. For example:

The hired hand is concerned about what he’s going to get paid and not about the sheep. (GW)

is unconcerned for the sheep: The English phrase is unconcerned for is confusing here because it has more than one possible sense. In some contexts it would mean that the hired man did not feed or look after the sheep. But that was his job, and that is not what the Greek phrase means. What the Greek means is that the hired man was not concerned about the sheep. They were not important to him, so when danger came he abandoned them. Here are other ways to translate this phrase:

cares nothing for the sheep (NIV)

is not concerned about the sheep (NET)

the sheep do not really matter to him

the sheep are not important to him

General Comment on 10:13a–b

In some languages it may be natural to reverse the order of 10:13a–b. For example:

Because he is a hired hand and is not concerned about the sheep, he runs away. (NET)

General Comment on 10:12–13

Jesus was talking about hired workers in general. So in some languages it may be natural to use plural forms, as the CEV has done. The CEV translation also provides a model for how to break up this long sentence into several shorter sentences:

Hired workers are not like the shepherd. They don’t own the sheep, and when they see a wolf coming, they run off and leave the sheep. Then the wolf attacks and scatters the flock. Hired workers run away because they don’t care about the sheep. (CEV)