John 13:3

13:3 Because Jesus ¹  knew that the Father had handed all things over to him, ²  and that he had come from God and was going back to God,

John 3:8

3:8 The wind ³  blows wherever it will, and you hear the sound it makes, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.” ⁴ 

John 11:31

11:31 Then the people ⁵  who were with Mary ⁶  in the house consoling her saw her ⁷  get up quickly and go out. They followed her, because they thought she was going to the tomb to weep ⁸  there.

John 12:35

12:35 Jesus replied, ⁹  “The light is with you for a little while longer. ¹⁰  Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness may not overtake you. ¹¹  The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.

[13:3]  ¹ tn Grk “Because he knew”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[13:3]  ² tn Grk “had given all things into his hands.”

[3:8]  ³ tn The same Greek word, πνεύματος (pneumatos), may be translated “wind” or “spirit.”

[3:8]  ⁴ sn Again, the physical illustrates the spiritual, although the force is heightened by the word-play here on wind-spirit (see the note on wind at the beginning of this verse). By the end of the verse, however, the final usage of πνεύματος (pneumatos) refers to the Holy Spirit.

[11:31]  ⁵ tn Or “the Judeans”; Grk “the Jews.” Here the phrase refers to the friends, acquaintances, and relatives of Lazarus or his sisters who had come to mourn, since the Jewish religious authorities are specifically mentioned as a separate group in John 11:46-47. See also the notes on the phrase “the Jewish leaders” in v. 8 and “the Jewish people of the region” in v. 19.

[11:31]  ⁶ tn Grk “her”; the referent (Mary) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[11:31]  ⁷ tn Grk “Mary”; the proper name (Mary) has been replaced with the pronoun (her) in keeping with conventional English style, to avoid repetition.

[11:31]  ⁸ tn Or “to mourn” (referring to the loud wailing or crying typical of public mourning in that culture).

[12:35]  ⁷ tn Grk “Then Jesus said to them.”

[12:35]  ⁸ tn Grk “Yet a little while the light is with you.”

[12:35]  ⁹ sn The warning Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness may not overtake you operates on at least two different levels: (1) To the Jewish people in Jerusalem to whom Jesus spoke, the warning was a reminder that there was only a little time left for them to accept him as their Messiah. (2) To those later individuals to whom the Fourth Gospel was written, and to every person since, the words of Jesus are also a warning: There is a finite, limited time in which each individual has opportunity to respond to the Light of the world (i.e., Jesus); after that comes darkness. One’s response to the Light decisively determines one’s judgment for eternity.