John 4:38

4:38 I sent you to reap what you did not work for; others have labored and you have entered into their labor.”

John 8:53

8:53 You aren’t greater than our father Abraham who died, are you? ¹  And the prophets died too! Who do you claim to be?”

John 9:34

9:34 They replied, ²  “You were born completely in sinfulness, ³  and yet you presume to teach us?” ⁴  So they threw him out.

John 12:19

12:19 Thus the Pharisees ⁵  said to one another, “You see that you can do nothing. Look, the world has run off after him!”

John 12:36

12:36 While you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become sons of light.” ⁶  When Jesus had said these things, he went away and hid himself from them.

[8:53]  ¹ tn Questions prefaced with μή (mh) in Greek anticipate a negative answer. This can sometimes be indicated by using a “tag” at the end in English (here the tag is “are you?”).

[9:34]  ¹ tn Grk “They answered and said to him.” This has been simplified in the translation to “They replied.”

[9:34]  ² tn Or “From birth you have been evil.” The implication of this insult, in the context of John 9, is that the man whom Jesus caused to see had not previously adhered rigorously to all the conventional requirements of the OT law as interpreted by the Pharisees. Thus he had no right to instruct them about who Jesus was.

[9:34]  ³ tn Grk “and are you teaching us?”

[12:19]  ¹ sn See the note on Pharisees in 1:24.

[12:36]  ¹ tn The idiom “sons of light” means essentially “people characterized by light,” that is, “people of God.”