18:34a
In anger his master: The Greek word that the Berean Standard Bible translates as In anger can also be translated as an independent verb. For example:
His master was so angry that (God’s Word)
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The king was very angry, and (Good News Translation)
turned him over: The Greek phrase that the Berean Standard Bible translates as turned him over means “transferred his control to” (another person). The king gave the wicked servant to other people to punish.
Here are some other ways to translate this phrase:
gave/put him into the power of
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sent the servant to (Good News Translation)
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handed him over to (New Jerusalem Bible)
This same verb occurs in 17:22b when Jesus talked about what would happen to him. There the Berean Standard Bible translates it as “delivered.”
to the jailers: The Greek word that the Berean Standard Bible translates as jailers can also be translated as “torturers” (as in the New Jerusalem Bible and God’s Word). It describes officials in a jail whose job was to torture a prisoner in order to punish him and question him.
Some English versions are like the Berean Standard Bible and translate only the idea of jailers. Other English versions translate only the idea of torturers. It is best to use a term or phrase that includes both ideas. For example:
to the prison guards to be tortured (NET Bible)
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to jail to be punished (Good News Translation)
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in prison to be punished (New Century Version)
18:34b
until he should repay all that he owed: This same phrase occurs in 18:30c (except here the word all is added). You should translate it in the same way. For example:
until he paid off all the debt
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until the day that he reimbursed all the money
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for as long as he had not paid all the money that he owed
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