G5610

• {"n":"John 2:4b","s":"Mine hour is not yet come. A word John uses as a countdown to one event.","u":"https:\/\/jayms.com\/bible-study-tools-2\/bible-translation-differences\/#id=john-2-4b","r":"John 2:4","b":[{"l":"How modern translations read it","t":"Every version reads hour or time."},{"l":"First, in plain English","t":"**His hour had come.** English uses hour for a decisive moment too, and never means sixty minutes when it does."},{"l":"What you are seeing","t":"Hora is an hour, but John uses it as a technical marker. It is not yet come at 2:4, 7:30 and 8:20; it has come at 12:23, 13:1 and 17:1. The pattern is a structural device across the book."},{"l":"Why translators split","t":"English hour carries the decisive sense, so little is lost in the word. What is lost is that these are the same word used deliberately across twenty chapters."},{"l":"The rule to carry away","t":"When a common word recurs in the same phrasing across a book, track every occurrence before interpreting any one of them."},{"l":"Choosing between them","t":"Hour is the majority rendering and no version departs."},{"l":"The word","t":"\u1f65\u03c1\u03b1 hora \u00b7 G5610"}],"src":["Not yet: John 2:4; 7:30; 8:20","Has come: John 12:23; 13:1; 17:1","The same device with semeion and with I am"]}