[B-Greek] John 2:4 TI EMOI KAI SOI
Oun Kwon
kwonbbl at gmail.com
Fri Feb 19 19:39:27 EST 2010
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Patrick Narkinsky
<patrick at narkinsky.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Oun Kwon <kwonbbl at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It would be in my mind in everyday English, (reading from between
>> lines to feel what's going on between the son and the mother):
>>
>> "You’re bringing me your concern, aren’t you, my dear?"
>
>
> Which sort of leads into my question about this verse. I've heard people
> express concern about how "rude" this phrase seems, coming from Jesus to his
> mother. In this thread, I've heard proposals that ranged from quite abrupt
> ("what's that got to do with me") to the very gentle (Oun Kwon's rendering)
>
> Do we have any good basis in the literature on which to judge the emotional
> connotation of this phrase?
>
> Patrick Narkinsky
>
> --
> Patrick Narkinsky
Hi Patrick,
'Do you have any good basis in the literature?' you asked. But I don't.
I confess, however, this phrase is one of those which have been vexing
me for a decade. I
have visited this text so often, and spent so much time on it. I could
see what it says, but I could not pinpoint what it tells. (BTW most
agree there is nothing rude about in His addressing with GUNAI.)
We have to put ourselves into their mind set in such different culture
at far away place and time to be able to read from btw the lines - to
feel their mutual love and to get a hint of what was going through His
mind. He knows His time has come - the time to get on His way as His
Father passed away by this time (as most believe). He must have been
telling His mother about His future plan often, if not explicit but
enough to His mother know about His destiny.
Though slowly and inevitably a-changing, the culture I have grown up
in is quite similar to theirs. And that makes somewhat easier for me
to get immersed as one of the characters in the narrative for
listening and observing and getting a feel of it.
Oun Kwon.
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