John 7:20

7:20 The crowd ¹  answered, “You’re possessed by a demon! ²  Who is trying to kill you?” ³ 

John 7:4

7:4 For no one who seeks to make a reputation for himself ⁴  does anything in secret. ⁵  If you are doing these things, show yourself to the world.”

John 4:23

4:23 But a time ⁶  is coming – and now is here ⁷  – when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks ⁸  such people to be ⁹  his worshipers. ¹⁰ 

John 7:18

7:18 The person who speaks on his own authority ¹¹  desires ¹²  to receive honor ¹³  for himself; the one who desires ¹⁴  the honor ¹⁵  of the one who sent him is a man of integrity, ¹⁶  and there is no unrighteousness in him.

¹ tn Or “The common people” (as opposed to the religious authorities mentioned in 7:15).

² tn Grk “You have a demon!”

³ tn Grk “Who is seeking to kill you?”

⁴ tn Or “seeks to be well known.”

⁵ sn No one who seeks to make a reputation for himself does anything in secret means, in effect: “if you’re going to perform signs to authenticate yourself as Messiah, you should do them at Jerusalem.” (Jerusalem is where mainstream Jewish apocalyptic tradition held that Messiah would appear.)

⁷ tn Grk “an hour.”

⁸ tn “Here” is not in the Greek text but is supplied to conform to contemporary English idiom.

⁹ sn See also John 4:27.

¹⁰ tn Or “as.” The object-complement construction implies either “as” or “to be.”

¹¹ tn This is a double accusative construction of object and complement with τοιούτους (toioutous) as the object and the participle προσκυνοῦντας (proskunounta") as the complement.

¹⁰ tn Grk “who speaks from himself.”

¹¹ tn Or “seeks.”

¹² tn Or “praise”; Grk “glory.”

¹³ tn Or “seeks.”

¹⁴ tn Or “praise”; Grk “glory.”

¹⁵ tn Or “is truthful”; Grk “is true.”