John 3:7

3:7 Do not be amazed that I said to you, ‘You must all ¹  be born from above.’ ² 

John 7:15

7:15 Then the Jewish leaders ³  were astonished ⁴  and said, “How does this man know so much when he has never had formal instruction?” ⁵ 

John 7:21

7:21 Jesus replied, ⁶  “I performed one miracle ⁷  and you are all amazed. ⁸ 

John 5:28

5:28 “Do not be amazed at this, because a time ⁹  is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice

John 4:27

The Disciples Return

4:27 Now at that very moment his disciples came back. ¹⁰  They were shocked ¹¹  because he was speaking ¹²  with a woman. However, no one said, “What do you want?” ¹³  or “Why are you speaking with her?”

John 5:20

5:20 For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything he does, and will show him greater deeds than these, so that you will be amazed.

[3:7]  ¹ tn “All” has been supplied to indicate the plural pronoun in the Greek text.

[3:7]  ² tn Or “born again.” The same Greek word with the same double meaning occurs in v. 3.

[7:15]  ³ tn Or “the Jewish authorities”; Grk “the Jews.” Here the phrase refers to the Jewish authorities or leaders who were Jesus’ primary opponents. See the note on the phrase “the Jewish leaders” in v. 1.

[7:15]  ⁴ tn Or “began to be astonished.” This imperfect verb could also be translated ingressively (“began to be astonished”), but for English stylistic reasons it is rendered as a simple past.

[7:15]  ⁵ tn Grk “How does this man know learning since he has not been taught?” The implication here is not that Jesus never went to school (in all probability he did attend a local synagogue school while a youth), but that he was not the disciple of a particular rabbi and had not had formal or advanced instruction under a recognized rabbi (compare Acts 4:13 where a similar charge is made against Peter and John; see also Paul’s comment in Acts 22:3).

[7:21]  ⁵ tn Grk “Jesus answered and said to them.”

[7:21]  ⁶ tn Grk “I did one deed.”

[7:21]  ⁷ sn The “one miracle” that caused them all to be amazed was the last previous public miracle in Jerusalem recorded by the author, the healing of the paralyzed man in John 5:1-9 on the Sabbath. (The synoptic gospels record other Sabbath healings, but John does not mention them.)

[5:28]  ⁷ tn Grk “an hour.”

[4:27]  ⁹ 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]  ¹⁰ 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]  ¹¹ 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]  ¹² tn Grk “seek.” See John 4:23.