John 16:29

16:29 His disciples said, “Look, now you are speaking plainly ¹  and not in obscure figures of speech! ² 

John 19:10

19:10 So Pilate said, ³  “Do you refuse to speak to me? Don’t you know I have the authority ⁴  to release you, and to crucify you?” ⁵ 

John 4:27

The Disciples Return

4:27 Now at that very moment his disciples came back. ⁶  They were shocked ⁷  because he was speaking ⁸  with a woman. However, no one said, “What do you want?” ⁹  or “Why are you speaking with her?”

[16:29]  ¹ tn Or “openly.”

[16:29]  ² tn Or “not in parables.” or “not in metaphors.”

[19:10]  ³ tn Grk “said to him.” The words “to him” are not translated because they are unnecessary in contemporary English style.

[19:10]  ⁴ tn Or “the power.”

[19:10]  ⁵ tn Grk “know that I have the authority to release you and the authority to crucify you.” Repetition of “the authority” is unnecessarily redundant English style.

[4:27]  ⁵ tn Or “his disciples returned”; Grk “came” (“back” is supplied in keeping with English usage). Because of the length of the Greek sentence it is better to divide here and begin a new English sentence, leaving the καί (kai) before ἐθαύμαζον (eqaumazon) untranslated.

[4:27]  ⁶ tn BDAG 444 s.v. θαυμάζω 1.a.γ has “be surprised that” followed by indirect discourse. The context calls for a slightly stronger wording.

[4:27]  ⁷ tn The ὅτι (Joti) could also be translated as declarative (“that he had been speaking with a woman”) but since this would probably require translating the imperfect verb as a past perfect (which is normal after a declarative ὅτι), it is preferable to take this ὅτι as causal.

[4:27]  ⁸ tn Grk “seek.” See John 4:23.