5:24 “I tell you the solemn truth, 1 the one who hears 2 my message 3 and believes the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned, 4 but has crossed over from death to life.
12:44 But Jesus shouted out, 5 “The one who believes in me does not believe in me, but in the one who sent me, 6
6:1 Therefore we must progress beyond 9 the elementary 10 instructions about Christ 11 and move on 12 to maturity, not laying this foundation again: repentance from dead works and faith in God,
1 tn Grk “Truly, truly, I say to you.”
2 tn Or “obeys.”
3 tn Or “word.”
4 tn Grk “and does not come into judgment.”
5 tn Grk “shouted out and said.”
6 sn The one who sent me refers to God.
7 tn Grk “Jesus said to him.”
8 tn Or “I am the way, even the truth and the life.”
9 tn Grk “Therefore leaving behind.” The implication is not of abandoning this elementary information, but of building on it.
10 tn Or “basic.”
11 tn Grk “the message of the beginning of Christ.”
12 tn Grk “leaving behind…let us move on.”