John 6:41

6:41 Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus ¹  began complaining about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven,”

John 8:43

8:43 Why don’t you understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot accept ²  my teaching. ³ 

John 16:18

16:18 So they kept on repeating, ⁴  “What is the meaning of what he says, ⁵  ‘In a little while’? ⁶  We do not understand ⁷  what he is talking about.” ⁸ 

John 18:32

18:32 (This happened ⁹  to fulfill the word Jesus had spoken when he indicated ¹⁰  what kind of death he was going to die. ¹¹ )

[6:41]  ¹ tn Grk “Then the Jews.” In NT usage the term ᾿Ιουδαῖοι (Ioudaioi) may refer to the entire Jewish people, the residents of Jerusalem and surrounding territory, the authorities in Jerusalem, or merely those who were hostile to Jesus. (For further information see R. G. Bratcher, “‘The Jews’ in the Gospel of John,” BT 26 [1975]: 401-9.) Here the translation restricts the phrase to those Jews who were hostile to Jesus (cf. BDAG 479 s.v. ᾿Ιουδαῖος 2.e.β), since the “crowd” mentioned in 6:22-24 was almost all Jewish (as suggested by their addressing Jesus as “Rabbi” (6:25). Likewise, the designation “Judeans” does not fit here because the location is Galilee rather than Judea.

[8:43]  ² tn Grk “you cannot hear,” but this is not a reference to deafness, but rather hearing in the sense of listening to something and responding to it.

[8:43]  ³ tn Grk “my word.”

[16:18]  ³ tn Grk “they kept on saying.”

[16:18]  ⁴ tn Grk “What is this that he says.”

[16:18]  ⁵ tn Grk “A little while.” Although the phrase τὸ μικρόν (to mikron) in John 16:18 could be translated simply “a little while,” it was translated “in a little while” to maintain the connection to John 16:16, where it has the latter meaning in context.

[16:18]  ⁶ tn Or “we do not know.”

[16:18]  ⁷ tn Grk “what he is speaking.”

[18:32]  ⁴ tn The words “This happened” are not in the Greek text but are implied.

[18:32]  ⁵ tn Or “making clear.”

[18:32]  ⁶ sn A reference to John 12:32.