8:28 Then Jesus said, 1 “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, 2 and I do nothing on my own initiative, 3 but I speak just what the Father taught me. 4
1 tn Grk “Then Jesus said to them” (the words “to them” are not found in all
2 tn Grk “that I am.” See the note on this phrase in v. 24.
3 tn Grk “I do nothing from myself.”
4 tn Grk “but just as the Father taught me, these things I speak.”
5 tn Grk “answered them.”
6 tn Or “the works.”
9 tn Or “works.”
10 tn Or “so that you may learn.”
13 tn Grk “Truly, truly, I say to you.”
14 tn Or “will do.”
15 tn Grk “the works.”
16 tn Or “that I do.”
17 tn Or “will do.”
18 tn Grk “greater works.”