John 3:29

3:29 The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom, who stands by and listens for him, rejoices greatly ¹  when he hears the bridegroom’s voice. This then is my joy, and it is complete. ² 

John 7:23

7:23 But if a male child ³  is circumcised ⁴  on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses is not broken, ⁵  why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well ⁶  on the Sabbath?

John 12:24

12:24 I tell you the solemn truth, ⁷  unless a kernel of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains by itself alone. ⁸  But if it dies, it produces ⁹  much grain. ¹⁰ 

John 12:35

12:35 Jesus replied, ¹¹  “The light is with you for a little while longer. ¹²  Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness may not overtake you. ¹³  The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.

John 13:29

13:29 Some thought that, because Judas had the money box, Jesus was telling him to buy whatever they needed for the feast, ¹⁴  or to give something to the poor.) ¹⁵ 

John 16:23

16:23 At that time ¹⁶  you will ask me nothing. I tell you the solemn truth, ¹⁷  whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you. ¹⁸ 

[3:29]  ¹ tn Grk “rejoices with joy” (an idiom).

[3:29]  ² tn Grk “Therefore this my joy is fulfilled.”

[7:23]  ³ tn Grk “a man.” See the note on “male child” in the previous verse.

[7:23]  ⁴ tn Grk “receives circumcision.”

[7:23]  ⁵ sn If a male child is circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses is not broken. The Rabbis counted 248 parts to a man’s body. In the Talmud (b. Yoma 85b) R. Eleazar ben Azariah (ca. a.d. 100) states: “If circumcision, which attaches to one only of the 248 members of the human body, suspends the Sabbath, how much more shall the saving of the whole body suspend the Sabbath?” So absolutely binding did rabbinic Judaism regard the command of Lev 12:3 to circumcise on the eighth day, that in the Mishnah m. Shabbat 18.3; 19.1, 2; and m. Nedarim 3.11 all hold that the command to circumcise overrides the command to observe the Sabbath.

[7:23]  ⁶ tn Or “made an entire man well.”

[12:24]  ⁵ tn Grk “Truly, truly, I say to you.”

[12:24]  ⁶ tn Or “it remains only a single kernel.”

[12:24]  ⁷ tn Or “bears.”

[12:24]  ⁸ tn Grk “much fruit.”

[12:35]  ⁷ tn Grk “Then Jesus said to them.”

[12:35]  ⁸ tn Grk “Yet a little while the light is with you.”

[12:35]  ⁹ sn The warning Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness may not overtake you operates on at least two different levels: (1) To the Jewish people in Jerusalem to whom Jesus spoke, the warning was a reminder that there was only a little time left for them to accept him as their Messiah. (2) To those later individuals to whom the Fourth Gospel was written, and to every person since, the words of Jesus are also a warning: There is a finite, limited time in which each individual has opportunity to respond to the Light of the world (i.e., Jesus); after that comes darkness. One’s response to the Light decisively determines one’s judgment for eternity.

[13:29]  ⁹ tn Grk “telling him, ‘Buy whatever we need for the feast.’” The first clause is direct discourse and the second clause indirect discourse. For smoothness of English style, the first clause has been converted to indirect discourse to parallel the second (the meaning is left unchanged).

[13:29]  ¹⁰ sn This is a parenthetical note by the author.

[16:23]  ¹¹ tn Grk “And in that day.”

[16:23]  ¹² tn Grk “Truly, truly, I say to you.”

[16:23]  ¹³ sn This statement is also found in John 15:16.