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• {"n":"John 4:23-24","s":"True worshippers. The adjective means real as against counterfeit, not sincere.","u":"https:\/\/jayms.com\/bible-study-tools-2\/bible-translation-differences\/#id=john-4-23-24","r":"John 4:23-24","b":[{"l":"How modern translations read it","t":"Every version reads true worshippers."},{"l":"First, in plain English","t":"**A true friend.** You mean a real one, not a sincere one. English keeps the sense and uses it less often than it used to."},{"l":"What you are seeing","t":"Alethinos is genuine, real, the thing itself rather than a representation. It is the word behind the true light, the true bread and the true vine in this Gospel, where in each case something is being contrasted with a lesser version."},{"l":"Why translators split","t":"English true covers both genuine and sincere, and the second sense now dominates, so a claim about authenticity reads as a claim about attitude."},{"l":"The rule to carry away","t":"When John calls something true, he is usually contrasting it with a copy. List the other occurrences and the pattern becomes obvious."},{"l":"Choosing between them","t":"True is universal; genuine or real appear in footnotes."},{"l":"The word","t":"\u1f00\u03bb\u03b7\u03b8\u03b9\u03bd\u03cc\u03c2 alethinos \u00b7 G228"}],"src":["the true light: John 1:9","the true bread: John 6:32","the true vine: John 15:1"]}