John 13:31-33

The Prediction of Peter’s Denial

13:31 When ¹  Judas ²  had gone out, Jesus said, “Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in him. 13:32 If God is glorified in him, ³  God will also glorify him in himself, and he will glorify him right away. ⁴  13:33 Children, I am still with you for a little while. You will look for me, ⁵  and just as I said to the Jewish religious leaders, ⁶  ‘Where I am going you cannot come,’ ⁷  now I tell you the same. ⁸ 

[13:31]  ¹ tn Grk “Then when.”

[13:31]  ² tn Grk “he”; the referent (Judas) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[13:32]  ³ tc A number of early mss (Ì⁶⁶ א* B C* D L W al as well as several versional witnesses) do not have the words “If God is glorified in him,” while the majority of mss have the clause (so א² A C² Θ Ψ Ë¹³ 33 Ï lat). Although the mss that omit the words are significantly better witnesses, the omission may have occurred because of an error of sight due to homoioteleuton (v. 31 ends in ἐν αὐτῷ [en autw, “in him”], as does this clause). Further, the typical step-parallelism found in John is retained if the clause is kept intact (TCGNT 205-6). At the same time, it is difficult to explain how such a wide variety of witnesses would have accidentally deleted this clause, and arguments for intentional deletion are not particularly convincing. NA²⁷ rightly places the words in brackets, indicating doubt as to their authenticity.

[13:32]  ⁴ tn Or “immediately.”

[13:33]  ⁵ tn Or “You will seek me.”

[13:33]  ⁶ tn Grk “the Jews.” In NT usage the term ᾿Ιουδαῖοι (Ioudaioi) may refer to the entire Jewish people, the residents of Jerusalem and surrounding territory, the authorities in Jerusalem, or merely those who were hostile to Jesus. (For further information see R. G. Bratcher, “‘The Jews’ in the Gospel of John,” BT 26 [1975]: 401-9.) Here the phrase refers to the residents of Jerusalem in general, or to the Jewish religious leaders in particular, who had sent servants to attempt to arrest Jesus on that occasion (John 7:33-35). The last option is the one adopted in the translation above.

[13:33]  ⁷ sn See John 7:33-34.

[13:33]  ⁸ tn The words “the same” are not in the Greek text but are implied. Direct objects in Greek were often omitted when clear from the context.