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Parallel YHN 5:46

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

OET (OET-RV) The trouble is that if you actually believed what Mosheh wrote, you would believe me, because Mosheh was writing about me.OET logo mark

OET-LV For/Because if you_all_were_believing in_Mōsaʸs, you_all_were_believing wishfully in_me, because/for that one wrote concerning me.OET logo mark

SR-GNT Εἰ γὰρ ἐπιστεύετε Μωϋσεῖ, ἐπιστεύετε ἂν ἐμοί, περὶ γὰρ ἐμοῦ ἐκεῖνος ἔγραψεν. ‡
   (Ei gar episteuete Mōusei, episteuete an emoi, peri gar emou ekeinos egrapsen.)

Key: khaki:verbs, light-green:nominative/subject, pink:genitive/possessor, cyan:dative/indirect object.
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).


GHT for if supposing you-have-been-believing/entrusting to {Moses} you-have-been-believing/entrusting to {emphatically-me}, for about of {emphatically-me} the-there writes.

ULT For if you believed Moses, you would believe me, because that one wrote about me.

UST He will accuse you because if you had trusted Moses, but you do not, then you would trust me, because Moses explained about me in the law.

BSB If you had believed Moses, you would believe Me, because he wrote about Me.

MSB If you had believed Moses, you would believe Me, because he wrote about Me.

BLB For if you were believing Moses, you would have believed Me; for he wrote concerning Me.

AICNT For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me.

OEB For, had you believed Moses, you would have believed me, for it was of me that Moses wrote;

LSB For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me, for he wrote about Me.

WEBBE & WMBB For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me.

NET If you believed Moses, you would believe me, because he wrote about me.

LSV for if you were believing Moses, you would have been believing Me, for he wrote concerning Me;

FBV For if you really trusted Moses you would trust in me, because he wrote about me.

TCNT If you had believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me.

T4T Moses wrote about me, so if you had believed what he wrote, you would have believed what I said

LEB For if you had believed Moses, you would believe me, for that one wrote about me.

BBE If you had belief in Moses you would have belief in me; for his writings are about me.

Moff For if you believed Moses you would believe me, since it was of me that he wrote.

Wymth For if you believe Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me.

ASV For if ye believed Moses, ye would believe me; for he wrote of me.

DRA For if you did believe Moses, you would perhaps believe me also; for he wrote of me.

YLT for if ye were believing Moses, ye would have been believing me, for he wrote concerning me;

Drby for if ye had believed Moses, ye would have believed me, for he wrote of me.

RV For if ye believed Moses, ye would believe me; for he wrote of me.
   (For if ye/you_all believed Moses, ye/you_all would believe me; for he wrote of me.)

SLT For if ye had believed Moses, ye had believed me: for he himself wrote of me.

Wbstr For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote concerning me.

KJB-1769  For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me.
   ( For had ye/you_all believed Moses, ye/you_all would have believed me: for he wrote of me.)

KJB-1611 For had ye beleeued Moses, ye would haue beleeued me: for he wrote of me.
   (Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above)

Bshps For had ye beleued Moyses, ye would haue beleued me: for he wrote of me.
   (Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above)

Gnva For had ye beleeued Moses, ye would haue beleeued me: for he wrote of me.
   (Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above)

Cvdl Yf ye beleued Moses, ye shulde beleue me also: For he hath wrytte of me.
   (If ye/you_all believed Moses, ye/you_all should believe me also: For he hath/has written of me.)

TNT For had ye beleved Moses ye wold have beleved me: for he wrote of me.
   (For had ye/you_all believed Moses ye/you_all wold have believed me: for he wrote of me.)

Wycl For if ye bileueden to Moises, perauenture ye schulden bileue also to me; for he wroot of me.
   (For if ye/you_all believed to Moses, peradventure/perhaps ye/you_all should believe also to me; for he wrote of me.)

Luth Wenn ihr Mose glaubtet, so glaubtet ihr auch mir; denn er hat von mir geschrieben.
   (If/When you(pl)/their/her Moses believed, so believed you(pl)/their/her also to_me; because/than he has from to_me written.)

ClVg Si enim crederetis Moysi, crederetis forsitan et mihi: de me enim ille scripsit.
   (When/But_if because would_believeis of_Moses, would_believeis perhaps and to_me: from/about me because he/that_one wrote.)

UGNT εἰ γὰρ ἐπιστεύετε Μωϋσεῖ, ἐπιστεύετε ἂν ἐμοί; περὶ γὰρ ἐμοῦ ἐκεῖνος ἔγραψεν.
   (ei gar episteuete Mōusei, episteuete an emoi; peri gar emou ekeinos egrapsen.)

SBL-GNT εἰ γὰρ ἐπιστεύετε Μωϋσεῖ, ἐπιστεύετε ἂν ἐμοί, περὶ γὰρ ἐμοῦ ἐκεῖνος ἔγραψεν.
   (ei gar episteuete Mōusei, episteuete an emoi, peri gar emou ekeinos egrapsen.)

RP-GNT Εἰ γὰρ ἐπιστεύετε Μωσῇ, ἐπιστεύετε ἂν ἐμοί· περὶ γὰρ ἐμοῦ ἐκεῖνος ἔγραψεν.
   (Ei gar episteuete Mōsaʸ, episteuete an emoi; peri gar emou ekeinos egrapsen.)

TC-GNT εἰ γὰρ ἐπιστεύετε [fn]Μωσεῖ, ἐπιστεύετε ἂν ἐμοί· περὶ [fn]γὰρ ἐμοῦ ἐκεῖνος ἔγραψεν.
   (ei gar episteuete Mōsei, episteuete an emoi; peri gar emou ekeinos egrapsen.)


5:46 μωσει ʙ18 ¦ μωση ʙ13 ʀᴘ ᴛʀ ¦ μωυσει ᴀɴᴛ ᴄᴛ

5:46 γαρ εμου ¦ εμου γαρ ᴘᴄᴋ

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


SOTN SIL Open Translator’s Notes:

Section 5:30–47: Jesus told about others who told the truth about himself

Jesus told the Pharisees about those who testified about him. Those witnesses were John the Baptist, the works that the Father gave him to do, and the Father himself. The Father spoke about him in the Old Testament.

Here are some other possible section headings:

Jesus told about what testified about the truth about him

There were those who confirmed the truth about Jesus

Witnesses for Jesus

Paragraph 5:45–47

Moses had written in the Scriptures that God would send another prophet like him. He also wrote that the people must believe and obey that other prophet. In this paragraph, Jesus implied that he was that other prophet, but the people refused to accept him.

5:46a

If you had believed Moses, you would believe Me,

The Greek text includes a word at the beginning of this verse that means “because.” The idea is that Moses would accuse the Jewish leaders because they did not believe him. And Jesus knows that they did not believe Moses because if they had believed Moses, they would believe him. English translations leave this word implied, but you may want to make it explicit. For example:

because if you truly believed Moses, then you would also believe me

He will accuse you of not believing him because if you believed him, you would believe me

If you had believed Moses, you would believe Me: These clauses form a logical argument. The first clause is a condition that had not been fulfilled, that is contrary to fact. Jesus was saying that the religious leaders did not really believe Moses. If they had believed what Moses wrote, they would have listened to Jesus, but they did not. The fact that they did not believe Jesus showed that they did not believe Moses.

In some languages it may be necessary to imply or state explicitly that the leaders believed neither Moses nor Jesus. For example:

If you really believed Moses, you would believe me. (GW)

If you did believe what Moses wrote, you would believe me. But you do not believe him/us.

In some languages a condition that is contrary to fact (never happened) may be unnatural or hard to understand. It may be necessary to say it in a positive way:

Those who believe Moses will believe me also.

had believed…would believe: Here the idea of these words is believing what Moses wrote and what Jesus said. That is made clear in 5:47.

5:46b

because he wrote about Me.

because: The Greek word that BSB translates as because here introduces the reason why those who believe Moses must also believe Jesus. Here is another way to translate this word:

for (NRSV)

he wrote about Me: This clause means “Moses wrote about Jesus.” Moses wrote about the coming of a prophet in Deuteronomy 18:15–19. Jesus was saying that he was that prophet. In some languages it may be natural to start a new sentence here. For example:

Moses wrote about me. (GW)


UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-condition-contrary

εἰ γὰρ ἐπιστεύετε Μωϋσεῖ, ἐπιστεύετε ἂν ἐμοί

if (Some words not found in SR-GNT: εἰ Γάρ ἐπιστεύετε Μωϋσεῖ ἐπιστεύετε ἄν ἐμοί περί γάρ ἐμοῦ ἐκεῖνος ἔγραψεν)

John records Jesus making a conditional statement that sounds hypothetical, but he is already convinced that the condition is not true. Jesus knows that the Jewish leaders do not truly believe Moses. Use a natural form in your language for introducing a condition that the speaker believes is not true. Alternate translation: [you must not believe Moses since you do not believe me]

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