John 2:6

2:6 Now there were six stone water jars there for Jewish ceremonial washing, ¹  each holding twenty or thirty gallons. ² 

John 8:37

8:37 I know that you are Abraham’s descendants. ³  But you want ⁴  to kill me, because my teaching ⁵  makes no progress among you. ⁶ 

John 21:25

21:25 There are many other things that Jesus did. If every one of them were written down, ⁷  I suppose the whole world ⁸  would not have room for the books that would be written. ⁹ 

[2:6]  ¹ tn Grk “for the purification of the Jews.”

[2:6]  ² tn Grk “holding two or three metretes” (about 75 to 115 liters). Each of the pots held 2 or 3 μετρηταί (metrhtai). A μετρητῆς (metrhths) was about 9 gallons (40 liters); thus each jar held 18-27 gallons (80-120 liters) and the total volume of liquid involved was 108-162 gallons (480-720 liters).

[8:37]  ³ tn Grk “seed” (an idiom).

[8:37]  ⁴ tn Grk “you are seeking.”

[8:37]  ⁵ tn Grk “my word.”

[8:37]  ⁶ tn Or “finds no place in you.” The basic idea seems to be something (in this case Jesus’ teaching) making headway or progress where resistance is involved. See BDAG 1094 s.v. χωρέω 2.

[21:25]  ⁵ tn Grk “written”; the word “down” is supplied in keeping with contemporary English idiom.

[21:25]  ⁶ tn Grk “the world itself.”

[21:25]  ⁷ tc Although the majority of mss (C² Θ Ψ Ë¹³ Ï lat) conclude this Gospel with ἀμήν (amhn, “amen”), such a conclusion is routinely added by scribes to NT books because a few of these books originally had such an ending (cf. Rom 16:27; Gal 6:18; Jude 25). A majority of Greek witnesses have the concluding ἀμήν in every NT book except Acts, James, and 3 John (and even in these books, ἀμήν is found in some witnesses). It is thus a predictable variant. Further, excellent and early witnesses, as well as a few others (א A B C*^,3 D W 1 33 pc it), lack the particle, rendering no doubt as to how this Gospel originally ended.