John 12:8

12:8 For you will always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me!” ¹ 

John 12:45

12:45 and the one who sees me sees the one who sent me. ² 

John 15:23

15:23 The one who hates me hates my Father too.

John 16:3

16:3 They ³  will do these things because they have not known the Father or me. ⁴ 

John 16:14

16:14 He ⁵  will glorify me, ⁶  because he will receive ⁷  from me what is mine ⁸  and will tell it to you. ⁹ 

John 17:18

17:18 Just as you sent me into the world, so I sent them into the world. ¹⁰ 

[12:8]  ¹ tc A few isolated witnesses omit v. 8 (D sy^s), part of v. 8 (Ì⁷⁵), or vv. 7-8 ({0250}). The latter two omissions are surely due to errors of sight, while the former can be attributed to D’s sometimes erratic behavior. The verse is secure in light of the overwhelming evidence on its behalf.

[12:45]  ² sn Cf. John 1:18 and 14:9.

[16:3]  ³ tn Grk “And they.” Because of the difference between Greek style, which often begins sentences or clauses with “and,” and English style, which generally does not, καί (kai) has not been translated here.

[16:3]  ⁴ sn Ignorance of Jesus and ignorance of the Father are also linked in 8:19; to know Jesus would be to know the Father also, but since the world does not know Jesus, neither does it know his Father. The world’s ignorance of the Father is also mentioned in 8:55, 15:21, and 17:25.

[16:14]  ⁴ tn Grk “That one.”

[16:14]  ⁵ tn Or “will honor me.”

[16:14]  ⁶ tn Or “he will take.”

[16:14]  ⁷ tn The words “what is mine” are not in the Greek text, but are implied. Direct objects were often omitted in Greek when clear from the context.

[16:14]  ⁸ tn Or “will announce it to you.”

[17:18]  ⁵ sn Jesus now compared the mission on which he was sending the disciples to his own mission into the world, on which he was sent by the Father. As the Father sent Jesus into the world (cf. 3:17), so Jesus now sends the disciples into the world to continue his mission after his departure. The nature of this prayer for the disciples as a consecratory prayer is now emerging: Jesus was setting them apart for the work he had called them to do. They were, in a sense, being commissioned.