G312

• {"n":"John 16:13","s":"He will shew you things to come. The verb is announce, and the phrase need not mean prediction.","u":"https:\/\/jayms.com\/bible-study-tools-2\/bible-translation-differences\/#id=john-16-13","r":"John 16:13","b":[{"l":"How modern translations read it","t":"Versions read things to come, what is yet to come, or things that are coming."},{"l":"First, in plain English","t":"**What's coming** can mean next week or it can mean the thing already on its way down the track."},{"l":"What you are seeing","t":"Ta erchomena is a participle, the coming things. Anangello is to announce or report rather than to predict. Together they may point at the events immediately ahead rather than at the future in general."},{"l":"Why translators split","t":"English things to come defaults to prophecy, so a phrase about imminent events reads as a promise of foresight."},{"l":"The rule to carry away","t":"Participles used as nouns are usually about what is happening rather than about a fixed category. The coming things is a description, not a genre."},{"l":"Choosing between them","t":"What is yet to come is what most modern versions print."},{"l":"The word","t":"\u1f00\u03bd\u03b1\u03b3\u03b3\u03ad\u03bb\u03bb\u03c9 anangello \u00b7 G312"}],"src":["anangello at John 4:25; 16:13-15","The participle ta erchomena","The immediate context of John 16:16-22"]}