John 4:42

4:42 They said to the woman, “No longer do we believe because of your words, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this one ¹  really is the Savior of the world.” ² 

John 6:42

6:42 and they said, “Isn’t this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”

John 9:24

9:24 Then they summoned ³  the man who used to be blind ⁴  a second time and said to him, “Promise before God to tell the truth. ⁵  We know that this man ⁶  is a sinner.”

John 20:2

20:2 So she went running ⁷  to Simon Peter and the other disciple whom Jesus loved and told them, “They have taken the Lord from the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!”

¹ tn Or “this.” The Greek pronoun can mean either “this one” or “this” (BDAG 740 s.v. οὗτος 1).

² sn There is irony in the Samaritans’ declaration that Jesus was really the Savior of the world, an irony foreshadowed in the prologue to the Fourth Gospel (1:11): “He came to his own, and his own did not receive him.” Yet the Samaritans welcomed Jesus and proclaimed him to be not the Jewish Messiah only, but the Savior of the world.

³ tn Grk “they called.”

⁴ tn Grk “who was blind.”

⁵ tn Grk “Give glory to God” (an idiomatic formula used in placing someone under oath to tell the truth).

⁶ tn The phrase “this man” is a reference to Jesus.

⁵ tn Grk “So she ran and came.”