John 7:16

7:16 So Jesus replied, ¹  “My teaching is not from me, but from the one who sent me. ² 

John 15:9

15:9 “Just as the Father has loved me, I have also loved you; remain ³  in my love.

John 15:11-12

15:11 I have told you these things ⁴  so that my joy may be in you, and your joy may be complete. 15:12 My commandment is this – to love one another just as I have loved you. ⁵ 

John 18:36

18:36 Jesus replied, “My kingdom is not from this world. If my kingdom were from this world, my servants would be fighting to keep me from being ⁶  handed over ⁷  to the Jewish authorities. ⁸  But as it is, ⁹  my kingdom is not from here.”

John 8:16

8:16 But if I judge, my evaluation is accurate, ¹⁰  because I am not alone when I judge, ¹¹  but I and the Father who sent me do so together. ¹² 

John 3:29

3:29 The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom, who stands by and listens for him, rejoices greatly ¹³  when he hears the bridegroom’s voice. This then is my joy, and it is complete. ¹⁴ 

John 5:30

5:30 I can do nothing on my own initiative. ¹⁵  Just as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, ¹⁶  because I do not seek my own will, but the will of the one who sent me. ¹⁷ 

[7:16]  ¹ tn Grk “So Jesus answered and said to them.”

[7:16]  ² tn The phrase “the one who sent me” refers to God.

[15:9]  ³ tn Or “reside.”

[15:11]  ⁵ tn Grk “These things I have spoken to you.”

[15:12]  ⁷ sn Now the reference to the commandments (plural) in 15:10 have been reduced to a singular commandment: The disciples are to love one another, just as Jesus has loved them. This is the ‘new commandment’ of John 13:34, and it is repeated in 15:17. The disciples’ love for one another is compared to Jesus’ love for them. How has Jesus shown his love for the disciples? This was illustrated in 13:1-20 in the washing of the disciples’ feet, introduced by the statement in 13:1 that Jesus loved them “to the end.” In context this constitutes a reference to Jesus’ self-sacrificial death on the cross on their behalf; the love they are to have for one another is so great that it must include a self-sacrificial willingness to die for one another if necessary. This is exactly what Jesus is discussing here, because he introduces the theme of his sacrificial death in the following verse. In John 10:18 and 14:31 Jesus spoke of his death on the cross as a commandment he had received from his Father, which also links the idea of commandment and love as they are linked here. One final note: It is not just the degree or intensity of the disciples’ love for one another that Jesus is referring to when he introduces by comparison his own death on the cross (that they must love one another enough to die for one another) but the very means of expressing that love: It is to express itself in self-sacrifice for one another, sacrifice up to the point of death, which is what Jesus himself did on the cross (cf. 1 John 3:16).

[18:36]  ⁹ tn Grk “so that I may not be.”

[18:36]  ¹⁰ tn Or “delivered over.”

[18:36]  ¹¹ tn Or “the Jewish leaders”; Grk “the Jews.” Here the phrase refers to the Jewish leaders, especially members of the Sanhedrin. See the note on the phrase “Jewish leaders” in v. 12. In the translation “authorities” was preferred over “leaders” for stylistic reasons.

[18:36]  ¹² tn Grk “now.”

[8:16]  ¹¹ tn Grk “my judgment is true.”

[8:16]  ¹² tn The phrase “when I judge” is not in the Greek text, but is implied by the context.

[8:16]  ¹³ tn The phrase “do so together” is not in the Greek text, but is implied by the context.

[3:29]  ¹³ tn Grk “rejoices with joy” (an idiom).

[3:29]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “Therefore this my joy is fulfilled.”

[5:30]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “nothing from myself.”

[5:30]  ¹⁶ tn Or “righteous,” or “proper.”

[5:30]  ¹⁷ tn That is, “the will of the Father who sent me.”