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 6:38

6:38 For I have come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me.

John 11:13

11:13 (Now Jesus had been talking about ³  his death, but they ⁴  thought he had been talking about real sleep.) ⁵ 

John 11:51

11:51 (Now he did not say this on his own, ⁶  but because he was high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the Jewish nation, ⁷ 

John 13:16

13:16 I tell you the solemn truth, ⁸  the slave ⁹  is not greater than his master, nor is the one who is sent as a messenger ¹⁰  greater than the one who sent 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).

[11:13]  ³ tn Or “speaking about.”

[11:13]  ⁴ tn Grk “these.”

[11:13]  ⁵ tn Grk “the sleep of slumber”; this is a redundant expression to emphasize physical sleep as opposed to death.

[11:51]  ⁵ tn Grk “say this from himself.”

[11:51]  ⁶ tn The word “Jewish” is not in the Greek text, but is clearly implied by the context (so also NIV; TEV “the Jewish people”).

[13:16]  ⁷ tn Grk “Truly, truly, I say to you.”

[13:16]  ⁸ tn See the note on the word “slaves” in 4:51.

[13:16]  ⁹ tn Or “nor is the apostle” (“apostle” means “one who is sent” in Greek).