G3392

• {"n":"John 18:28","s":"Lest they should be defiled. A purity concern stated without explanation.","u":"https:\/\/jayms.com\/bible-study-tools-2\/bible-translation-differences\/#id=john-18-28","r":"John 18:28","b":[{"l":"How modern translations read it","t":"Every version reads that they might not be defiled."},{"l":"First, in plain English","t":"A writer who explains one custom and not another is telling you which one he expected you to know."},{"l":"What you are seeing","t":"Miaino, to defile. Entering a Gentile dwelling rendered a Jew ritually unclean, which would have barred participation in the Passover. John glosses Aramaic words for his readers and does not gloss this, which is itself information about what he assumed."},{"l":"Why translators split","t":"The words themselves lose nothing. It's the background no translation supplies."},{"l":"The rule to carry away","t":"Track what a writer explains and what he does not. The unexplained things tell you about his readers."},{"l":"Choosing between them","t":"That they might not be defiled is the majority rendering."},{"l":"The word","t":"\u03bc\u03b9\u03b1\u03af\u03bd\u03c9 miaino \u00b7 G3392"}],"src":["Mishnah Oholoth 18:7 on Gentile dwellings","John's glosses at 1:38, 41-42; 9:7; 19:13, 17; 20:16","The irony of the scene is the standard comment"]}