A parent may have twelve children but each child is different, an individual and thus that parent will related to each child a little differently to reflect that uniqueness of the child. This is good, because God is an infinite God who has a personal relationship with each one of us and He has infinite ways of relating to each one of us. One of the most common questions I am asked is “which is the best translation.” My usual answer is that they are all good translations, but you just have to realize each translation has a slightly different spin reflecting the translator’s own world view of God. Almost 1600 years later, the translators commissioned by King James, still using the word for word method, translated the same expression from Greek into English and thus it was that a beautiful Hebrew and Aramaic idiom was perpetuated in our English translations. When the Greek translator translated the original words of Jesus, which were originally spoken in Aramaic, he was employing a traditional method of translation, ie., word for word.
Today we use what is known as dynamic translation, which is attempting to give the sense of the original rather than a word-for-word translation.
This is a classic illustration of the difference between 20 th – 21 st Century translations and earlier translations. As a result these words are so un-English that it is almost comical. I quoted from KJV above as the translators of the KJV merely translated this from the Greek word- for-word. Was it some hidden message? Actually it is not the saying let these sayings sink down into your ears that the disciples did not understand but it was the idea of the Son of Man being delivered into the hands of men that they did ot understand. Most of your modern translations will render the phrase “Let these sayings sink down into your ears” as “Listen carefully.” But if the disciples did not understand it, I doubt that this saying was that simple. But they understood not this saying, and it was hid from them, that they perceived it not: and they feared to ask him of that saying” Luke 9:44-45: “Let these sayings sink down into your ears: for the Son of Man shall be delivered into the hands of men.
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