John 4:35

4:35 Don’t you say, ¹  ‘There are four more months and then comes the harvest?’ I tell you, look up ²  and see that the fields are already white ³  for harvest!

John 11:9

11:9 Jesus replied, ⁴  “Are there not twelve hours in a day? If anyone walks around in the daytime, he does not stumble, ⁵  because he sees the light of this world. ⁶ 

John 17:11

17:11 I ⁷  am no longer in the world, but ⁸  they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them safe ⁹  in your name ¹⁰  that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are one. ¹¹ 

John 17:14

17:14 I have given them your word, ¹²  and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, ¹³  just as I do not belong to the world. ¹⁴ 

[4:35]  ¹ tn The recitative ὅτι (Joti) after λέγετε (legete) has not been translated.

[4:35]  ² tn Grk “lift up your eyes” (an idiom). BDAG 357 s.v. ἐπαίρω 1 has “look up” here.

[4:35]  ³ tn That is, “ripe.”

[11:9]  ⁴ tn Grk “Jesus answered.”

[11:9]  ⁵ tn Or “he does not trip.”

[11:9]  ⁶ sn What is the light of this world? On one level, of course, it refers to the sun, but the reader of John’s Gospel would recall 8:12 and understand Jesus’ symbolic reference to himself as the light of the world. There is only a limited time left (Are there not twelve hours in a day?) until the Light will be withdrawn (until Jesus returns to the Father) and the one who walks around in the dark will trip and fall (compare the departure of Judas by night in 13:30).

[17:11]  ⁷ tn Grk And I.” The conjunction καί (kai, “and”) has not been translated here in keeping with the tendency of contemporary English style to use shorter sentences.

[17:11]  ⁸ tn The context indicates that this should be translated as an adversative or contrastive conjunction.

[17:11]  ⁹ tn Or “protect them”; Grk “keep them.”

[17:11]  ¹⁰ tn Or “by your name.”

[17:11]  ¹¹ tn The second repetition of “one” is implied, and is supplied here for clarity.

[17:14]  ¹⁰ tn Or “your message.”

[17:14]  ¹¹ tn Grk “because they are not of the world.”

[17:14]  ¹² tn Grk “just as I am not of the world.”