John 1:29

1:29 On the next day John ¹  saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God ²  who takes away the sin of the world!

John 2:16

2:16 To those who sold the doves he said, “Take these things away from here! Do not make ³  my Father’s house a marketplace!” ⁴ 

John 5:9

5:9 Immediately the man was healed, ⁵  and he picked up his mat ⁶  and started walking. (Now that day was a Sabbath.) ⁷ 

John 5:11

5:11 But he answered them, “The man who made me well said to me, ‘Pick up your mat ⁸  and walk.’”

John 11:39

11:39 Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” ⁹  Martha, the sister of the deceased, ¹⁰  replied, “Lord, by this time the body will have a bad smell, ¹¹  because he has been buried ¹²  four days.” ¹³ 

John 11:48

11:48 If we allow him to go on in this way, ¹⁴  everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away our sanctuary ¹⁵  and our nation.”

John 15:2

15:2 He takes away ¹⁶  every branch that does not bear ¹⁷  fruit in me. He ¹⁸  prunes ¹⁹  every branch that bears ²⁰  fruit so that it will bear more fruit.

John 20:13

20:13 They said ²¹  to her, “Woman, ²²  why are you weeping?” Mary replied, ²³  “They have taken my Lord away, and I do not know where they have put him!”

[1:29]  ¹ tn Grk “he”; the referent (John) has been supplied in the translation for clarity.

[1:29]  ² sn Gen 22:8 is an important passage in the background of the title Lamb of God as applied to Jesus. In Jewish thought this was held to be a supremely important sacrifice. G. Vermès stated: “For the Palestinian Jew, all lamb sacrifice, and especially the Passover lamb and the Tamid offering, was a memorial of the Akedah with its effects of deliverance, forgiveness of sin and messianic salvation” (Scripture and Tradition in Judaism [StPB], 225).

[2:16]  ³ tn Or (perhaps) “Stop making.”

[2:16]  ⁴ tn Or “a house of merchants” (an allusion to Zech 14:21).

[5:9]  ⁵ tn Grk “became well.”

[5:9]  ⁶ tn Or “pallet,” “mattress,” “cot,” or “stretcher.” See the note on “mat” in the previous verse.

[5:9]  ⁷ tn Grk “Now it was Sabbath on that day.”

[5:11]  ⁷ tn Or “pallet,” “mattress,” “cot,” or “stretcher.” See the note on “mat” in v. 8.

[11:39]  ⁹ tn Or “Remove the stone.”

[11:39]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “the sister of the one who had died.”

[11:39]  ¹¹ tn Grk “already he stinks.”

[11:39]  ¹² tn Or “been there” (in the tomb – see John 11:17).

[11:39]  ¹³ sn He has been buried four days. Although all the details of the miracle itself are not given, those details which are mentioned are important. The statement made by Martha is extremely significant for understanding what actually took place. There is no doubt that Lazarus had really died, because the decomposition of his body had already begun to take place, since he had been dead for four days.

[11:48]  ¹¹ tn Grk “If we let him do thus.”

[11:48]  ¹² tn Or “holy place”; Grk “our place” (a reference to the temple in Jerusalem).

[15:2]  ¹³ tn Or “He cuts off.”

[15:2]  ¹⁴ tn Or “does not yield.”

[15:2]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “And he”; the conjunction καί (kai, “and”) has been omitted in the translation in keeping with the tendency in contemporary English style to use shorter sentences.

[15:2]  ¹⁶ tn Or “trims”; Grk “cleanses” (a wordplay with “clean” in v. 3). Καθαίρει (kaqairei) is not the word one would have expected here, but it provides the transition from the vine imagery to the disciples – there is a wordplay (not reproducible in English) between αἴρει (airei) and καθαίρει in this verse. While the purpose of the Father in cleansing his people is clear, the precise means by which he does so is not immediately obvious. This will become clearer, however, in the following verse.

[15:2]  ¹⁷ tn Or “that yields.”

[20:13]  ¹⁵ tn The conjunction καί (kai, “and”) has not been translated here.

[20:13]  ¹⁶ sn Woman was a polite form of address (see BDAG 208-9 s.v. γυνή 1), similar to “Madam” or “Ma’am” used in English in different regions. This occurs again in v. 15.

[20:13]  ¹⁷ tn Grk “She said to them.”