John 1:2

1:2 The Word ¹  was with God in the beginning.

John 4:30

4:30 So ²  they left the town and began coming ³  to him.

John 9:13

The Pharisees’ Reaction to the Healing

9:13 They brought the man who used to be blind ⁴  to the Pharisees. ⁵ 

John 14:18

14:18 “I will not abandon ⁶  you as orphans, ⁷  I will come to you. ⁸ 

John 20:10

Jesus’ Appearance to Mary Magdalene

20:10 So the disciples went back to their homes.

[1:2]  ¹ tn Grk “He”; the referent (the Word) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[4:30]  ² tn “So” is supplied for transitional smoothness in English.

[4:30]  ³ sn The imperfect tense is here rendered began coming for the author is not finished with this part of the story yet; these same Samaritans will appear again in v. 35.

[9:13]  ³ tn Grk “who was formerly blind.”

[9:13]  ⁴ sn See the note on Pharisees in 1:24.

[14:18]  ⁴ tn Or “leave.”

[14:18]  ⁵ tn The entire phrase “abandon you as orphans” could be understood as an idiom meaning, “leave you helpless.”

[14:18]  ⁶ sn I will come to you. Jesus had spoken in 14:3 of going away and coming again to his disciples. There the reference was both to the parousia (the second coming of Christ) and to the postresurrection appearances of Jesus to the disciples. Here the postresurrection appearances are primarily in view, since Jesus speaks of the disciples “seeing” him after the world can “see” him no longer in the following verse. But many commentators have taken v. 18 as a reference to the coming of the Spirit, since this has been the topic of the preceding verses. Still, vv. 19-20 appear to contain references to Jesus’ appearances to the disciples after his resurrection. It may well be that another Johannine double meaning is found here, so that Jesus ‘returns’ to his disciples in one sense in his appearances to them after his resurrection, but in another sense he ‘returns’ in the person of the Holy Spirit to indwell them.