John 2:22

2:22 So after he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture ¹  and the saying ²  that Jesus had spoken.

John 5:18

5:18 For this reason the Jewish leaders ³  were trying even harder to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was also calling God his own Father, thus making himself equal with God.

John 6:39-40

6:39 Now this is the will of the one who sent me – that I should not lose one person of every one he has given me, but raise them all up ⁴  at the last day. 6:40 For this is the will of my Father – for everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him to have eternal life, and I will raise him up ⁵  at the last day.” ⁶ 

John 12:27

12:27 “Now my soul is greatly distressed. And what should I say? ‘Father, deliver me ⁷  from this hour’? ⁸  No, but for this very reason I have come to this hour. ⁹ 

John 15:19

15:19 If you belonged to the world, ¹⁰  the world would love you as its own. ¹¹  However, because you do not belong to the world, ¹²  but I chose you out of the world, for this reason ¹³  the world hates you. ¹⁴ 

John 16:17

16:17 Then some of his disciples said to one another, “What is the meaning of what he is saying, ¹⁵  ‘In a little while you ¹⁶  will not see me; again after a little while, you ¹⁷  will see me,’ and, ‘because I am going to the Father’?” ¹⁸ 

John 18:38

18:38 Pilate asked, ¹⁹  “What is truth?” ²⁰ 

When he had said this he went back outside to the Jewish leaders ²¹  and announced, ²²  “I find no basis for an accusation ²³  against him.

John 19:11

19:11 Jesus replied, “You would have no authority ²⁴  over me at all, unless it was given to you from above. Therefore the one who handed me over to you ²⁵  is guilty of greater sin.” ²⁶ 

[2:22]  ¹ sn They believed the scripture is probably an anaphoric reference to Ps 69:9 (69:10 LXX), quoted in John 2:17 above. Presumably the disciples did not remember Ps 69:9 on the spot, but it was a later insight.

[2:22]  ² tn Or “statement”; Grk “word.”

[5:18]  ³ tn Or “the Jewish authorities”; Grk “the Jews.” See the note on the phrase “Jewish leaders” in v. 10.

[6:39]  ⁵ tn Or “resurrect them all,” or “make them all live again”; Grk “raise it up.” The word “all” is supplied to bring out the collective nature of the neuter singular pronoun αὐτό (auto) in Greek. The plural pronoun “them” is used rather than neuter singular “it” because this is clearer in English, which does not use neuter collective singulars in the same way Greek does.

[6:40]  ⁷ tn Or “resurrect him,” or “make him live again.”

[6:40]  ⁸ sn Notice that here the result (having eternal life and being raised up at the last day) is produced by looking on the Son and believing in him. Compare John 6:54 where the same result is produced by eating Jesus’ flesh and drinking his blood. This suggests that the phrase in 6:54 (eats my flesh and drinks my blood) is to be understood in terms of the phrase here (looks on the Son and believes in him).

[12:27]  ⁹ tn Or “save me.”

[12:27]  ¹⁰ tn Or “this occasion.”

[12:27]  ¹¹ tn Or “this occasion.”

[15:19]  ¹¹ tn Grk “if you were of the world.”

[15:19]  ¹² tn The words “you as” are not in the original but are supplied for clarity.

[15:19]  ¹³ tn Grk “because you are not of the world.”

[15:19]  ¹⁴ tn Or “world, therefore.”

[15:19]  ¹⁵ sn I chose you out of the world…the world hates you. Two themes are brought together here. In 8:23 Jesus had distinguished himself from the world in addressing his Jewish opponents: “You are from below, I am from above; you are of this world, I am not of this world.” In 15:16 Jesus told the disciples “You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you.” Now Jesus has united these two ideas as he informs the disciples that he has chosen them out of the world. While the disciples will still be “in” the world after Jesus has departed, they will not belong to it, and Jesus prays later in John 17:15-16 to the Father, “I do not ask you to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.” The same theme also occurs in 1 John 4:5-6: “They are from the world; therefore they speak as from the world, and the world listens to them. We are from God; he who knows God listens to us; he who is not from God does not listen to us.” Thus the basic reason why the world hates the disciples (as it hated Jesus before them) is because they are not of the world. They are born from above, and are not of the world. For this reason the world hates them.

[16:17]  ¹³ tn Grk “What is this that he is saying to us.”

[16:17]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “A little while, and you.”

[16:17]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “and again a little while, and you.”

[16:17]  ¹⁶ sn These fragmentary quotations of Jesus’ statements are from 16:16 and 16:10, and indicate that the disciples heard only part of what Jesus had to say to them on this occasion.

[18:38]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “Pilate said.”

[18:38]  ¹⁶ sn With his reply “What is truth?” Pilate dismissed the matter. It is not clear what Pilate’s attitude was at this point, as in 18:33. He may have been sarcastic, or perhaps somewhat reflective. The author has not given enough information in the narrative to be sure. Within the narrative, Pilate’s question serves to make the reader reflect on what truth is, and that answer (in the narrative) has already been given (14:6).

[18:38]  ¹⁷ tn Or “the Jewish authorities”; Grk “the Jews.” Here the phrase refers to the Jewish leaders, especially members of the Sanhedrin. See the note on the phrase “Jewish leaders” in v. 12. The term also occurs in v. 31, where it is clear the Jewish leaders are in view, because they state that they cannot legally carry out an execution. Although it is likely (in view of the synoptic parallels) that the crowd here in 18:38 was made up not just of the Jewish leaders, but of ordinary residents of Jerusalem and pilgrims who were in Jerusalem for the Passover, nevertheless in John’s Gospel Pilate is primarily in dialogue with the leadership of the nation, who are expressly mentioned in 18:35 and 19:6.

[18:38]  ¹⁸ tn Grk “said to them.”

[18:38]  ¹⁹ tn Grk “find no cause.”

[19:11]  ¹⁷ tn Or “power.”

[19:11]  ¹⁸ tn Or “who delivered me over to you.”

[19:11]  ¹⁹ tn Grk “has the greater sin” (an idiom).