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Translating John 2:4
Here is the Greek, and how various translations have rendered it in English.

RSV: O woman, what have you to do with me?

NRSV: Woman, what concern is that to you and to me?

KJV: Woman, what have I to do with thee?

NEB: Your concern, mother, is not mine.

NIV: Dear woman, why do you involve me?

NJB: Woman, what do you want from me?d
dLit. 'What to me and to thee'

NAS: Woman, what do I have to do with you?

TEV, CEV: You must not tell me what to do.

LB: I can't help you now.

REBrown: Woman, what has this concern of yours to do with me?


First posted 11/12/00; © 2000 John P. Nordin