John 11:17

Speaking with Martha and Mary

11:17 When ¹  Jesus arrived, ²  he found that Lazarus ³  had been in the tomb four days already. ⁴ 

John 6:19

6:19 Then, when they had rowed about three or four miles, ⁵  they caught sight of Jesus walking on the lake, ⁶  approaching the boat, and they were frightened.

John 4:35

4:35 Don’t you say, ⁷  ‘There are four more months and then comes the harvest?’ I tell you, look up ⁸  and see that the fields are already white ⁹  for harvest!

John 11:39

11:39 Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” ¹⁰  Martha, the sister of the deceased, ¹¹  replied, “Lord, by this time the body will have a bad smell, ¹²  because he has been buried ¹³  four days.” ¹⁴ 

John 19:23

19:23 Now when the soldiers crucified ¹⁵  Jesus, they took his clothes and made four shares, one for each soldier, ¹⁶  and the tunic ¹⁷  remained. (Now the tunic ¹⁸  was seamless, woven from top to bottom as a single piece.) ¹⁹ 

John 1:39

1:39 Jesus ²⁰  answered, ²¹  “Come and you will see.” So they came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. Now it was about four o’clock in the afternoon. ²² 

[11:17]  ¹ tn Grk “Then when.”

[11:17]  ² tn Grk “came.”

[11:17]  ³ tn Grk “he”; the referent (Lazarus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[11:17]  ⁴ tn Grk “he had already had four days in the tomb” (an idiom).

[6:19]  ⁵ tn Grk “about twenty-five or thirty stades” (a stade as a unit of linear measure is about 607 feet or 187 meters).

[6:19]  ⁶ tn Or “sea.” See the note on “lake” in v. 16. John uses the phrase ἐπί (epi, “on”) followed by the genitive (as in Mark, instead of Matthew’s ἐπί followed by the accusative) to describe Jesus walking “on the lake.”

[4:35]  ⁹ tn The recitative ὅτι (Joti) after λέγετε (legete) has not been translated.

[4:35]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “lift up your eyes” (an idiom). BDAG 357 s.v. ἐπαίρω 1 has “look up” here.

[4:35]  ¹¹ tn That is, “ripe.”

[11:39]  ¹³ tn Or “Remove the stone.”

[11:39]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “the sister of the one who had died.”

[11:39]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “already he stinks.”

[11:39]  ¹⁶ tn Or “been there” (in the tomb – see John 11:17).

[11:39]  ¹⁷ 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.

[19:23]  ¹⁷ sn See the note on Crucify in 19:6.

[19:23]  ¹⁸ sn Four shares, one for each soldier. The Gospel of John is the only one to specify the number of soldiers involved in the crucifixion. This was a quaternion, a squad of four soldiers. It was accepted Roman practice for the soldiers who performed a crucifixion to divide the possessions of the person executed among themselves.

[19:23]  ¹⁹ tn Or “shirt” (a long garment worn under the cloak next to the skin). The name for this garment (χιτών, citwn) presents some difficulty in translation. Most modern readers would not understand what a ‘tunic’ was any more than they would be familiar with a ‘chiton.’ On the other hand, attempts to find a modern equivalent are also a problem: “Shirt” conveys the idea of a much shorter garment that covers only the upper body, and “undergarment” (given the styles of modern underwear) is more misleading still. “Tunic” was therefore employed, but with a note to explain its nature.

[19:23]  ²⁰ tn Or “shirt” (a long garment worn under the cloak next to the skin). See the note on the same word earlier in this verse.

[19:23]  ²¹ sn This is a parenthetical note by the author.

[1:39]  ²¹ tn Grk “He”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[1:39]  ²² tn Grk “said to them.”

[1:39]  ²³ tn Grk “about the tenth hour.”