John 4:36

4:36 The one who reaps receives pay ¹  and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that the one who sows and the one who reaps can rejoice together.

John 7:23

7:23 But if a male child ²  is circumcised ³  on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses is not broken, ⁴  why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well ⁵  on the Sabbath?

John 16:15

16:15 Everything that the Father has is mine; that is why I said the Spirit ⁶  will receive from me what is mine ⁷  and will tell it to you. ⁸ 

¹ tn Or “a reward”; see L&N 38.14 and 57.173. This is something of a wordplay.

² tn Grk “a man.” See the note on “male child” in the previous verse.

³ tn Grk “receives circumcision.”

⁴ sn If a male child is circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses is not broken. The Rabbis counted 248 parts to a man’s body. In the Talmud (b. Yoma 85b) R. Eleazar ben Azariah (ca. a.d. 100) states: “If circumcision, which attaches to one only of the 248 members of the human body, suspends the Sabbath, how much more shall the saving of the whole body suspend the Sabbath?” So absolutely binding did rabbinic Judaism regard the command of Lev 12:3 to circumcise on the eighth day, that in the Mishnah m. Shabbat 18.3; 19.1, 2; and m. Nedarim 3.11 all hold that the command to circumcise overrides the command to observe the Sabbath.

⁵ tn Or “made an entire man well.”

³ tn Grk “I said he”; the referent (the Spirit) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁴ tn The words “what is mine” are not in the Greek text, but are implied. Direct objects were often omitted in Greek when clear from the context.

⁵ tn Or “will announce it to you.”