John 4:12

4:12 Surely you’re not greater than our ancestor¹ Jacob, are you? For he gave us this well and drank from it himself, along with his sons and his livestock.”²

John 5:43

5:43 I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not accept³ me. If someone else comes in his own name, you will accept⁴ him.

John 6:40

6:40 For this is the will of my Father – for everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him to have eternal life, and I will raise him up⁵ at the last day.”⁶

John 10:18

10:18 No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down⁷ of my own free will.⁸ I have the authority⁹ to lay it down, and I have the authority¹⁰ to take it back again. This commandment¹¹ I received from my Father.”

John 10:25

10:25 Jesus replied,¹² “I told you and you do not believe. The deeds¹³ I do in my Father’s name testify about me.

John 14:21

14:21 The person who has my commandments and obeys¹⁴ them is the one who loves me.¹⁵ The one¹⁶ who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal¹⁷ myself to him.”

John 14:24

14:24 The person who does not love me does not obey¹⁸ my words. And the word¹⁹ you hear is not mine, but the Father’s who sent me.

John 15:10

15:10 If you obey²⁰ my commandments, you will remain²¹ in my love, just as I have obeyed²² my Father’s commandments and remain²³ in his love.

John 15:15

15:15 I no longer call you slaves,²⁴ because the slave does not understand²⁵ what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because I have revealed to you everything²⁶ I heard²⁷ from my Father.

¹tn Or “our forefather”; Grk “our father.”

²tn Questions prefaced with μή (mh) in Greek anticipate a negative answer. This can sometimes be indicated by using a “tag” at the end. In this instance all of v. 12 is one question. It has been broken into two sentences for the sake of English style (instead of “for he” the Greek reads “who”).

³tn Or “you do not receive.”

⁴tn Or “you will receive.”

⁵tn Or “resurrect him,” or “make him live again.”

⁶sn Notice that here the result (having eternal life and being raised up at the last day) is produced by looking on the Son and believing in him. Compare John 6:54 where the same result is produced by eating Jesus’ flesh and drinking his blood. This suggests that the phrase in 6:54 (eats my flesh and drinks my blood) is to be understood in terms of the phrase here (looks on the Son and believes in him).

⁷tn Or “give it up.”

⁸tn Or “of my own accord.” “Of my own free will” is given by BDAG 321 s.v. ἐμαυτοῦ c.

⁹tn Or “I have the right.”

¹⁰tn Or “I have the right.”

¹¹tn Or “order.”

⁹tn Grk “answered them.”

¹⁰tn Or “the works.”

¹¹tn Or “keeps.”

¹²tn Grk “obeys them, that one is the one who loves me.”

¹³tn Grk “And the one.” Here the conjunction καί (kai) has not been translated to improve the English style.

¹⁴tn Or “will disclose.”

¹³tn Or “does not keep.”

¹⁴tn Or “the message.”

¹⁵tn Or “keep.”

¹⁶tn Or “reside.”

¹⁷tn Or “kept.”

¹⁸tn Or “reside.”

¹⁷tn See the note on the word “slaves” in 4:51.

¹⁸tn Or “does not know.”

¹⁹tn Grk “all things.”

²⁰tn Or “learned.”