John 1:20

1:20 He confessed – he did not deny but confessed – “I am not the Christ!” ¹ 

John 7:34

7:34 You will look for me ²  but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come.”

John 8:43

8:43 Why don’t you understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot accept ³  my teaching. ⁴ 

John 10:5

10:5 They will never follow a stranger, ⁵  but will run away from him, because they do not recognize ⁶  the stranger’s voice.” ⁷ 

¹ tn Or “the Messiah” (Both Greek “Christ” and Hebrew and Aramaic “Messiah” mean “one who has been anointed”).

² tn Grk “seek me.”

³ tn Grk “you cannot hear,” but this is not a reference to deafness, but rather hearing in the sense of listening to something and responding to it.

⁴ tn Grk “my word.”

⁴ tn Or “someone whom they do not know.”

⁵ tn Grk “know.”

⁶ tn Or “the voice of someone they do not know.”