John 6:5

6:5 Then Jesus, when he looked up ¹  and saw that a large crowd was coming to him, said to Philip, “Where can we buy bread so that these people may eat?”

John 6:10

6:10 Jesus said, “Have ²  the people sit down.” (Now there was a lot of grass in that place.) ³  So the men ⁴  sat down, about five thousand in number.

John 7:12

7:12 There was ⁵  a lot of grumbling ⁶  about him among the crowds. ⁷  Some were saying, “He is a good man,” but others, “He deceives the common people.” ⁸ 

John 12:9

12:9 Now a large crowd of Judeans ⁹  learned ¹⁰  that Jesus ¹¹  was there, and so they came not only because of him ¹²  but also to see Lazarus whom he had raised from the dead.

[6:5]  ¹ tn Grk “when he lifted up his eyes” (an idiom).

[6:10]  ² tn Grk “Make.”

[6:10]  ³ sn This is a parenthetical note by the author (suggesting an eyewitness recollection).

[6:10]  ⁴ tn Here “men” has been used in the translation because the following number, 5,000, probably included only adult males (see the parallel in Matt 14:21).

[7:12]  ³ tn Grk “And there was.”

[7:12]  ⁴ tn Or “complaining.”

[7:12]  ⁵ tn Or “among the common people” (as opposed to the religious authorities mentioned in the previous verse).

[7:12]  ⁶ tn Or “the crowd.”

[12:9]  ⁴ tn Grk “of the Jews.” In NT usage the term ᾿Ιουδαῖοι (Ioudaioi) may refer to the entire Jewish people, the residents of Jerusalem and surrounding territory (“Judeans”; cf. BDAG 479 s.v. ᾿Ιουδαῖος 2.e), 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 phrase refers to the residents of Jerusalem and the surrounding area who by this time had heard about the resurrection of Lazarus and were curious to see him.

[12:9]  ⁵ tn Grk “knew.”

[12:9]  ⁶ tn Grk “he”; normal English clause structure specifies the referent first and substitutes the pronoun in subsequent references to the same individual, so the referent (Jesus) has been specified here.

[12:9]  ⁷ tn Grk “Jesus”; normal English clause structure specifies the referent first and substitutes the pronoun in subsequent references to the same individual, so the pronoun (“him”) has been substituted here.