[B-Greek] Matthew 16:13

Matthew Blair mpblair at gmail.com
Mon Jan 21 14:00:31 EST 2008


Greetings all,

As mentioned before, I am a beginning self-study student using Mounce's
BBG.  I am working through the workbook as well, was presented this fragment
from Matthew 16:13.

TINA (accent over iota) LEGOUSIN hOI ANTHRWPOI EINAI TON hUION TOU
ANTHRWPOU;

I parsed this as: who they say the people to be the son of man?

And translated it as: Who do the people say is the Son of Man?

However, the NIV translates this as: Who do the people say that the Son of
Man is?

The difference between my translation and the NIV does not seem small.  In
my translation, the question is almost one of identification of the Son of
Man (who among these is the Son of Man?).  In the NIV, the question is one
of identification of the Son of Man with something else.

My question: what did I miss when translating this quote?  In other words,
why didn't my translation come out similar to the NIV? :-)

Thanks for your assistance,

Matthew Blair



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