G3323

• {"n":"John 1:41-42","s":"John stops the narrative twice to translate a word for you, which tells you who he thought was reading.","u":"https:\/\/jayms.com\/bible-study-tools-2\/bible-translation-differences\/#id=john-1-41-42","r":"John 1:41-42","b":[{"l":"How modern translations read it","t":"Versions keep the glosses because they are in the text. Some smooth them into parentheses."},{"l":"First, in plain English","t":"**He grabbed the bonnet, which is what the British call the hood.** You just learned two things. What a bonnet is, and that the writer assumes you are American. Writers who stop to translate are telling you who they expect to be reading."},{"l":"What you are seeing","t":"Messias and Kephas are Aramaic words carried into a Greek sentence, and John immediately supplies the Greek equivalent. He does the same thing at 1:38 with Rabbi, at 9:7 with Siloam, and at 20:16 with Rabboni."},{"l":"Why translators split","t":"There's no translation loss here. The point is what the habit reveals: the writer is working from an Aramaic-speaking setting and writing for readers who are not in it."},{"l":"The rule to carry away","t":"When a biblical writer translates a word inside his own sentence, he is telling you about his audience. Those glosses are some of the most direct evidence in the New Testament about who a book was written for."},{"l":"Choosing between them","t":"There is nothing to choose. The entry is here because it is the clearest example in John of the seam between the language of the events and the language of the book."},{"l":"The word","t":"\u039c\u03b5\u03c3\u03c3\u03af\u03b1\u03c2 Messias \u00b7 G3323 \/ \u039a\u03b7\u03c6\u1fb6\u03c2 Kephas \u00b7 G2786"}],"src":["John's other glosses: 1:38 Rabbi; 9:7 Siloam; 19:13 Gabbatha; 19:17 Golgotha; 20:16 Rabboni","Mark does the same at 5:41 and 15:34, which makes it a habit of the tradition rather than of one writer"]}