John 1:27

1:27 who is coming after me. I am not worthy to untie the strap of his sandal!”

John 2:19

2:19 Jesus replied, “Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up again.”

tn Grk “of whom I am not worthy.”

tn The term refers to the leather strap or thong used to bind a sandal. This is often viewed as a collective singular and translated as a plural, “the straps of his sandals,” but it may be more emphatic to retain the singular here.

tn Grk “answered and said to them.”

tn The imperative here is really more than a simple conditional imperative (= “if you destroy”); its semantic force here is more like the ironical imperative found in the prophets (Amos 4:4, Isa 8:9) = “Go ahead and do this and see what happens.”