John 1:46

1:46 Nathanael ¹  replied, ²  “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” ³  Philip replied, ⁴  “Come and see.”

John 10:28

10:28 I give ⁵  them eternal life, and they will never perish; ⁶  no one will snatch ⁷  them from my hand.

John 18:29

18:29 So Pilate came outside to them and said, “What accusation ⁸  do you bring against this man?” ⁹ 

John 19:5

19:5 So Jesus came outside, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. ¹⁰  Pilate ¹¹  said to them, “Look, here is the man!” ¹² 

[1:46]  ¹ tn Grk “And Nathanael.”

[1:46]  ² tn Grk “said to him.”

[1:46]  ³ sn Can anything good come out of Nazareth? may be a local proverb expressing jealousy among the towns.

[1:46]  ⁴ tn Grk “And Philip said to him.”

[10:28]  ⁵ tn Grk “And I give.”

[10:28]  ⁶ tn Or “will never die” or “will never be lost.”

[10:28]  ⁷ tn Or “no one will seize.”

[18:29]  ⁹ tn Or “charge.”

[18:29]  ¹⁰ sn In light of the fact that Pilate had cooperated with them in Jesus’ arrest by providing Roman soldiers, the Jewish authorities were probably expecting Pilate to grant them permission to carry out their sentence on Jesus without resistance (the Jews were not permitted to exercise capital punishment under the Roman occupation without official Roman permission, cf. v. 31). They must have been taken somewhat by surprise by Pilate’s question “What accusation do you bring against this man,” because it indicated that he was going to try the prisoner himself. Thus Pilate was regarding the trial before Caiaphas and the Sanhedrin as only an inquiry and their decision as merely an accusation.

[19:5]  ¹³ sn See the note on the purple robe in 19:2.

[19:5]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “He”; the referent (Pilate) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[19:5]  ¹⁵ sn Look, here is the man! Pilate may have meant no more than something like “Here is the accused!” or in a contemptuous way, “Here is your king!” Others have taken Pilate’s statement as intended to evoke pity from Jesus’ accusers: “Look at this poor fellow!” (Jesus would certainly not have looked very impressive after the scourging). For the author, however, Pilate’s words constituted an unconscious allusion to Zech 6:12, “Look, here is the man whose name is the Branch.” In this case Pilate (unknowingly and ironically) presented Jesus to the nation under a messianic title.