John 3:18

3:18 The one who believes in him is not condemned. ¹  The one who does not believe has been condemned ²  already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only ³  Son of God.

John 14:10

14:10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me? ⁴  The words that I say to you, I do not speak on my own initiative, ⁵  but the Father residing in me performs ⁶  his miraculous deeds. ⁷ 

John 15:15

15:15 I no longer call you slaves, ⁸  because the slave does not understand ⁹  what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because I have revealed to you everything ¹⁰  I heard ¹¹  from my Father.

[3:18]  ¹ tn Grk “judged.”

[3:18]  ² tn Grk “judged.”

[3:18]  ³ tn See the note on the term “one and only” in 3:16.

[14:10]  ⁴ tn The mutual interrelationship of the Father and the Son (ἐγὼ ἐν τῷ πατρὶ καὶ ὁ πατὴρ ἐν ἐμοί ἐστιν, egw en tw patri kai Jo pathr en emoi estin) is something that Jesus expected even his opponents to recognize (cf. John 10:38). The question Jesus asks of Philip (οὐ πιστεύεις, ou pisteuei") expects the answer “yes.” Note that the following statement is addressed to all the disciples, however, because the plural pronoun (ὑμῖν, Jumin) is used. Jesus says that his teaching (the words he spoke to them all) did not originate from himself, but the Father, who permanently remains (μένων, menwn) in relationship with Jesus, performs his works. One would have expected “speaks his words” here rather than “performs his works”; many of the church fathers (e.g., Augustine and Chrysostom) identified the two by saying that Jesus’ words were works. But there is an implicit contrast in the next verse between words and works, and v. 12 seems to demand that the works are real works, not just words. It is probably best to see the two terms as related but not identical; there is a progression in the idea here. Both Jesus’ words (recall the Samaritans’ response in John 4:42) and Jesus’ works are revelatory of who he is, but as the next verse indicates, works have greater confirmatory power than words.

[14:10]  ⁵ tn Grk “I do not speak from myself.”

[14:10]  ⁶ tn Or “does.”

[14:10]  ⁷ tn Or “his mighty acts”; Grk “his works.”

[15:15]  ⁷ tn See the note on the word “slaves” in 4:51.

[15:15]  ⁸ tn Or “does not know.”

[15:15]  ⁹ tn Grk “all things.”

[15:15]  ¹⁰ tn Or “learned.”