LUKE 20:40 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, orange:accusative/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).

UST The scribes said this because the people who had been trying to trap Jesus had stopped asking him difficult questions. He had answered so well that they were afraid to ask him anything else.

AICNT {For}[fn] they no longer dared to ask him any question.

20:40, For: ℵ(01) B(03) NA28 SBLGNT THGNT ‖ Some manuscripts read “And.” A(02) D(05) W(032) Latin(a e ff² i) Syriac(sy) BYZ TR

OEB for they did not venture to question him any further.

WEBBE They didn’t dare to ask him any more questions.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET For they did not dare any longer to ask him anything.

LSV and they no longer dared question Him anything.

FBV After this no one dared to ask him any more questions.

TCNT [fn]And they no longer dared to ask him anything.

20:40 And ¦ For CT

T4T After that, they no longer dared to ask him any more questions like that to try to trap him.

LEB For they no longer dared to ask him anything.

BBE And they had fear of putting any more questions to him.

Moff They no longer dared to put any question to him.

Wymth From that time, however, no one ventured to challenge Him with a single question.

ASV For they durst not any more ask him any question.

DRA And after that they durst not ask him any more questions.

YLT and no more durst they question him anything.

Drby For they did not dare any more to ask him anything.

RV For they durst not any more ask him any question.
(For they durst not anymore ask him any question. )

SLT And they dared no more to ask him anything.

Wbstr And after that, they durst not ask him any question at all.

KJB-1769 And after that they durst not ask him any question at all.

KJB-1611 And after that, they durst not aske him any question at all.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps And after that, durst they not aske him any question at all.
(And after that, durst they not ask him any question at all.)

Gnva And after that, durst they not aske him any thing at all.
(And after that, durst they not ask him anything at all. )

Cvdl And from that tyme forth they durst axe him no mo questions.
(And from that time forth they durst axe him no more questions.)

TNT And after that durst they not axe him eny question at all.
(And after that durst they not axe him any question at all. )

Wycl And thei dursten no more axe hym ony thing.
(And they dursten no more axe him any thing.)

Luth Und sie durften ihn fürder nichts mehr fragen.
(And they/she/them were_allowed him/it for nothing more asks.)

ClVg Et amplius non audebant eum quidquam interrogare.[fn]
(And more not/no audebant him anything to_ask. )

20.40 Et amplius, etc. Confutati in sermonibus non amplius interrogant, sed aperte comprehensum Romanæ potestati tradunt, ex quo intelligimus venena invidiæ posse quidem superari, sed difficile conquiescere.

20.40 And more, etc. Confutati in/into/on conversations not/no more interrogant, but openly understood Romanæ power they_deliver, from where we_understand poisons envy posse indeed superari, but difficult conquiescere.

UGNT οὐκέτι γὰρ ἐτόλμων ἐπερωτᾶν αὐτὸν οὐδέν.
(ouketi gar etolmōn eperōtan auton ouden.)

SBL-GNT οὐκέτι ⸀γὰρ ἐτόλμων ἐπερωτᾶν αὐτὸν οὐδέν.
(ouketi ⸀gar etolmōn eperōtan auton ouden.)

RP-GNT Οὐκέτι δὲ ἐτόλμων ἐπερωτᾷν αὐτὸν οὐδέν.
(Ouketi de etolmōn eperōtan auton ouden.)

TC-GNT Οὐκέτι [fn]δὲ ἐτόλμων ἐπερωτᾷν αὐτὸν οὐδέν.
(Ouketi de etolmōn eperōtan auton ouden. )

20:40 δε ¦ γαρ CT

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

SOTN SIL Open Translator’s Notes:

Section 20:27–40: Sadducees asked Jesus a trick question about the resurrection

The Jewish leaders continued to challenge Jesus’ authority and the things that he was teaching. In this section some Sadducees asked Jesus a question to try to show that his teaching was wrong. Like the Pharisees, the Sadducees were another group of Jewish leaders with certain religious beliefs. Many of the Sadducees were priests. They did not believe that God would cause anyone who had died to live again.

Jesus taught that God does cause people who have died to live again. The Sadducees tried to use this belief to trick Jesus in 20:27–40. They told a story to ridicule these beliefs that Jesus taught. The story was not true, but they used it to ask a question. They thought that if a person believed that people who died could live again, there was no sensible answer to the question.

The Sadducees based their story on the custom that is described in Deuteronomy 25:5–6. This scripture teaches that if an Israelite woman did not have any children by her husband before he died, her husband’s brother should marry her. Their first child would have the name of his dead brother and would be the heir of the dead brother.This custom was called levirate marriage. Jewish people considered the first son that the widow bore after marrying the brother of her dead husband to be the son of her dead husband, not the son of the man who was now her husband. This meant that this son and his descendants would carry on the dead man’s family and family name through future generations. Any sons born after this to the woman and her living husband would carry on the name of the living husband for future generations. In that way, the dead man’s family and family name could continue through future generations. Since the Scripture taught this custom, the Sadducees believed that they could prove from Scripture that Jesus was wrong.

Examples of headings for this section are:

The Question about Rising from Death (GNT)

Do the dead rise again?

The Sadducees challenged Jesus on people rising from death

Parallel passages for this section are found in Matthew 22:23–33 and Mark 12:18–27.

20:40

And they did not dare to question Him any further.

For people did not dare ask him any more questions.
And after that, no one was bold enough to ask Jesus another tricky question.

And they did not dare to question Him any further: The Greek conjunction that the BSB translates as And here often introduces a reason or explanation. In this clause it may explain why the scribes did not argue with Jesus in 20:39. They only told Jesus that he had answered well. They did not dare to ask him any more questions. Other ways to translate the connection are:

For they did not dare ask him any more questions. (GNT)

From that time on, no one dared to ask him another question. (GW)

In some languages a conjunction is not needed. For example:

No one was brave enough to ask him another question. (NCV)

Translate the connection with 20:39 in a natural way in your language.

they did not dare to question Him any further: People were afraid to test Jesus with any more hard or tricky questions, because he was very skillful at answering questions wisely.

they: The BSB literally represents the Greek text here. It probably refers here to people in general. It does not refer only to the scribes. Remember that the Sadducees and the scribes were different groups of people. The Sadducees had asked Jesus the question, and some scribes were there listening. Use a subject in your language that can refer to people in general, including the Sadducees and the scribes.

dare: The word dare indicates that no one felt bold enough to ask Jesus any more difficult questions. They felt unable to trick him because he had answered every question so wisely.

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / doublenegatives

οὐκέτι & ἐτόλμων ἐπερωτᾶν αὐτὸν οὐδέν

(Some words not found in SR-GNT: Οὐκέτι γάρ ἐτόλμων ἐπερωτᾶν αὐτόν οὐδέν)

Here Luke uses a double negative in Greek for emphasis, saying no longer and “nothing.” The second negative does not cancel the first to create a positive meaning, “they still dared to ask him something.” If for emphasis your language uses double negatives that do not cancel one another, it would be appropriate to use that construction here.

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / explicit

οὐκέτι & ἐτόλμων ἐπερωτᾶν αὐτὸν οὐδέν

(Some words not found in SR-GNT: Οὐκέτι γάρ ἐτόλμων ἐπερωτᾶν αὐτόν οὐδέν)

The implication in context is that Jesus’ enemies were afraid that if they continued to ask him difficult questions, his wise answers would continue to show how much more he understood than they did. If it would be helpful to your readers, you could state that explicitly. Alternate translation: [they were afraid to ask him any more difficult questions, because they realized he would give more wise answers that would show how much more he understood than they did]

Note 3 topic: writing-pronouns

οὐκέτι & ἐτόλμων

(Some words not found in SR-GNT: Οὐκέτι γάρ ἐτόλμων ἐπερωτᾶν αὐτόν οὐδέν)

It is unclear whether they refers to the scribes, the Sadducees, or everyone who had been trying to trap Jesus with difficult questions. It may be best to translate this with a general statement. Alternate translation: [Jesus’ enemies no longer dared]

Parallel LUKE 20:40

Section 20:27–40: Sadducees asked Jesus a trick question about the resurrection

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