John 1:46

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

John 18:5

18:5 They replied, ⁵  “Jesus the Nazarene.” He told them, “I am he.” (Now Judas, the one who betrayed him, was standing there with them.) ⁶ 

John 18:7

18:7 Then Jesus ⁷  asked them again, “Who are you looking for?” And they said, “Jesus the Nazarene.”

John 19:19

19:19 Pilate also had a notice ⁸  written and fastened to the cross, ⁹  which read: ¹⁰  “Jesus the Nazarene, the king of the Jews.”

John 1:45

1:45 Philip found Nathanael ¹¹  and told him, “We have found the one Moses wrote about in the law, and the prophets also ¹²  wrote about – Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”

[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.”

[18:5]  ⁵ tn Grk “They answered.”

[18:5]  ⁶ sn This is a parenthetical note by the author. Before he states the response to Jesus’ identification of himself, the author inserts a parenthetical note that Judas, again identified as the one who betrayed him (cf. 18:2), was standing with the group of soldiers and officers of the chief priests. Many commentators have considered this to be an awkward insertion, but in fact it heightens considerably the dramatic effect of the response to Jesus’ self-identification in the following verse, and has the added effect of informing the reader that along with the others the betrayer himself ironically falls down at Jesus’ feet (18:6).

[18:7]  ⁹ tn Grk “he”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[19:19]  ¹³ tn Or “an inscription.”

[19:19]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “Pilate also wrote a notice and placed it on the cross.” The two verbs should be read as causatives, since it is highly unlikely that the Roman governor would perform either of these actions himself. He ordered them to be done.

[19:19]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “Now it was written.”

[1:45]  ¹⁷ sn Nathanael is traditionally identified with Bartholomew (although John never describes him as such). He appears here after Philip, while in all lists of the twelve except in Acts 1:13, Bartholomew follows Philip. Also, the Aramaic Bar-tolmai means “son of Tolmai,” the surname; the man almost certainly had another name.

[1:45]  ¹⁸ tn “Also” is not in the Greek text, but is implied.