John 15:25

15:25 Now this happened ¹  to fulfill the word that is written in their law, ‘They hated me without reason.’ ² 

John 4:10

4:10 Jesus answered ³  her, “If you had known ⁴  the gift of God and who it is who said to you, ‘Give me some water ⁵  to drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” ⁶ 

[15:25]  ¹ tn The words “this happened” are not in the Greek text but are supplied to complete an ellipsis.

[15:25]  ² sn A quotation from Ps 35:19 and Ps 69:4. As a technical term law (νόμος, nomos) is usually restricted to the Pentateuch (the first five books of the OT), but here it must have a broader reference, since the quotation is from Ps 35:19 or Ps 69:4. The latter is the more likely source for the quoted words, since it is cited elsewhere in John’s Gospel (2:17 and 19:29, in both instances in contexts associated with Jesus’ suffering and death).

[4:10]  ³ tn Grk “answered and said to her.”

[4:10]  ⁴ tn Or “if you knew.”

[4:10]  ⁵ tn The phrase “some water” is supplied as the understood direct object of the infinitive πεῖν (pein).

[4:10]  ⁶ tn This is a second class conditional sentence in Greek.