John 6:37

6:37 Everyone whom the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will never send away. ¹ 

John 9:34-35

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.

The Man’s Response to Jesus

9:35 Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, so he found the man ⁵  and said to him, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?” ⁶ 

John 19:5

19:5 So Jesus came outside, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. ⁷  Pilate ⁸  said to them, “Look, here is the man!” ⁹ 

John 19:13

19:13 When Pilate heard these words he brought Jesus outside and sat down on the judgment seat ¹⁰  in the place called “The Stone Pavement” ¹¹  (Gabbatha in ¹²  Aramaic). ¹³ 

[6:37]  ¹ tn Or “drive away”; Grk “cast out.”

[9:34]  ² tn Grk “They answered and said to him.” This has been simplified in the translation to “They replied.”

[9:34]  ³ 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]  ⁴ tn Grk “and are you teaching us?”

[9:35]  ³ tn Grk “found him”; the referent (the man) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[9:35]  ⁴ tc Although most witnesses (A L Θ Ψ 070 0250 Ë^1,13 33 Ï lat) have θεοῦ (qeou, “of God”) instead of ἀνθρώπου (anqrwpou, “of man”) here, the better witnesses (Ì^66,75 א B D W sy^s) have ἀνθρώπου. Not only is the external evidence decidedly on the side of ἀνθρώπου, but it is difficult to see such early and diverse witnesses changing θεοῦ to ἀνθρώπου. The wording “Son of Man” is thus virtually certain.

[19:5]  ⁴ sn See the note on the purple robe in 19:2.

[19:5]  ⁵ tn Grk “He”; the referent (Pilate) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[19:5]  ⁶ sn Look, here is the man! Pilate may have meant no more than something like “Here is the accused!” or in a contemptuous way, “Here is your king!” Others have taken Pilate’s statement as intended to evoke pity from Jesus’ accusers: “Look at this poor fellow!” (Jesus would certainly not have looked very impressive after the scourging). For the author, however, Pilate’s words constituted an unconscious allusion to Zech 6:12, “Look, here is the man whose name is the Branch.” In this case Pilate (unknowingly and ironically) presented Jesus to the nation under a messianic title.

[19:13]  ⁵ tn Or “the judge’s seat.”

[19:13]  ⁶ sn The precise location of the place called ‘The Stone Pavement’ is still uncertain, although a paved court on the lower level of the Fortress Antonia has been suggested. It is not certain whether it was laid prior to a.d. 135, however.

[19:13]  ⁷ tn Grk “in Hebrew.”

[19:13]  ⁸ sn This is a parenthetical note by the author.