John 7:34

7:34 You will look for me ¹  but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come.”

John 12:33

12:33 (Now he said this to indicate clearly what kind of death he was going to die.) ² 

John 12:35

12:35 Jesus replied, ³  “The light is with you for a little while longer. ⁴  Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness may not overtake you. ⁵  The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.

John 12:1

Jesus’ Anointing

12:1 Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus lived, whom he ⁶  had raised from the dead.

John 18:10

18:10 Then Simon Peter, who had a sword, pulled it out and struck the high priest’s slave, ⁷  cutting off his right ear. ⁸  (Now the slave’s name was Malchus.) ⁹ 

John 18:2

18:2 (Now Judas, the one who betrayed him, knew the place too, because Jesus had met there many times ¹⁰  with his disciples.) ¹¹ 

John 2:16-17

2:16 To those who sold the doves he said, “Take these things away from here! Do not make ¹²  my Father’s house a marketplace!” ¹³  2:17 His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal ¹⁴  for your house will devour me.” ¹⁵ 

Matthew 23:39

23:39 For I tell you, you will not see me from now until you say, ‘Blessed is the one who comes in the name of the Lord!’” ¹⁶ 

Matthew 24:23-24

24:23 Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ ¹⁷  or ‘There he is!’ do not believe him. 24:24 For false messiahs ¹⁸  and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.

[7:34]  ¹ tn Grk “seek me.”

[12:33]  ² sn This is a parenthetical note by the author.

[12:35]  ³ tn Grk “Then Jesus said to them.”

[12:35]  ⁴ tn Grk “Yet a little while the light is with you.”

[12:35]  ⁵ sn The warning Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness may not overtake you operates on at least two different levels: (1) To the Jewish people in Jerusalem to whom Jesus spoke, the warning was a reminder that there was only a little time left for them to accept him as their Messiah. (2) To those later individuals to whom the Fourth Gospel was written, and to every person since, the words of Jesus are also a warning: There is a finite, limited time in which each individual has opportunity to respond to the Light of the world (i.e., Jesus); after that comes darkness. One’s response to the Light decisively determines one’s judgment for eternity.

[12:1]  ⁶ tn Grk “whom Jesus,” but a repetition of the proper name (Jesus) here would be redundant in the English clause structure, so the pronoun (“he”) is substituted in the translation.

[18:10]  ⁷ tn See the note on the word “slaves” in 4:51.

[18:10]  ⁸ sn The account of the attack on the high priest’s slave contains details which suggest eyewitness testimony. It is also mentioned in all three synoptic gospels, but only John records that the disciple involved was Peter, whose impulsive behavior has already been alluded to (John 13:37). Likewise only John gives the name of the victim, Malchus, who is described as the high priest’s slave. John and Mark (14:47) both use the word ὠτάριον (wtarion, a double diminutive) to describe what was cut off, and this may indicate only part of the right ear (for example, the earlobe).

[18:10]  ⁹ sn This is a parenthetical note by the author.

[18:2]  ¹⁰ tn Or “often.”

[18:2]  ¹¹ sn This is a parenthetical note by the author.

[2:16]  ¹² tn Or (perhaps) “Stop making.”

[2:16]  ¹³ tn Or “a house of merchants” (an allusion to Zech 14:21).

[2:17]  ¹⁴ tn Or “Fervent devotion to your house.”

[2:17]  ¹⁵ sn A quotation from Ps 69:9.

[23:39]  ¹⁶ sn A quotation from Ps 118:26.

[24:23]  ¹⁷ tn Or “Messiah”; both “Christ” (Greek) and “Messiah” (Hebrew and Aramaic) mean “one who has been anointed.”

[24:24]  ¹⁸ tn Or “false christs”; both “Christ” (Greek) and “Messiah” (Hebrew and Aramaic) mean “one who has been anointed.”