Discovery BoxJohn 8:52
Context8:52 Then 1 the Judeans 2 responded, 3 “Now we know you’re possessed by a demon! 4 Both Abraham and the prophets died, and yet 5 you say, ‘If anyone obeys 6 my teaching, 7 he will never experience 8 death.’ 9
John 8:55
Context8:55 Yet 10 you do not know him, but I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, 11 I would be a liar like you. But I do know him, and I obey 12 his teaching. 13
John 14:21
Context14:21 The person who has my commandments and obeys 14 them is the one who loves me. 15 The one 16 who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal 17 myself to him.”
John 14:23-24
Context14:23 Jesus replied, 18 “If anyone loves me, he will obey 19 my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and take up residence with him. 20 14:24 The person who does not love me does not obey 21 my words. And the word 22 you hear is not mine, but the Father’s who sent me.
John 17:6
Context17:6 “I have revealed 23 your name to the men 24 you gave me out of the world. They belonged to you, 25 and you gave them to me, and they have obeyed 26 your word.
John 17:11-12
Context17:11 I 27 am no longer in the world, but 28 they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them safe 29 in your name 30 that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are one. 31 17:12 When I was with them I kept them safe 32 and watched over them 33 in your name 34 that you have given me. Not one 35 of them was lost except the one destined for destruction, 36 so that the scripture could be fulfilled. 37
[8:52] 1 tc ‡ Important and early witnesses (Ì66 א B C W Θ 579 it) lack the conjunction here, while other witnesses read οὖν (oun, “therefore”; Ì75 D L Ψ 070 Ë1,13 33 Ï lat). This conjunction occurs in John some 200 times, far more than in any other NT book. Even though the most important Johannine papyrus (Ì75) has the conjunction, the combination of Ì66 א B for the omission is even stronger. Further, the reading seems to be a predictable scribal emendation. In particular, οὖν is frequently used with the plural of εἶπον (eipon, “they said”) in John (in this chapter alone, note vv. 13, 39, 48, 57, and possibly 41). On balance, it is probably best to consider the shorter reading as authentic, even though “Then” is virtually required in translation for English stylistic reasons. NA27 has the conjunction in brackets, indicating some doubt as to its authenticity.
[8:52] 2 tn Grk “the Jews.” See the note on this term in v. 31. Here, as in vv. 31 and 48, the phrase refers to the Jewish people in Jerusalem (“Judeans”; cf. BDAG 479 s.v. ᾿Ιουδαῖος 2.e) who had been listening to Jesus’ teaching in the temple courts (8:20) and had initially believed his claim to be the Messiah (cf. 8:31).
[8:52] 3 tn Grk “said to him.”
[8:52] 4 tn Grk “you have a demon.”
[8:52] 5 tn “Yet” has been supplied to show the contrastive element present in the context.
[8:52] 6 tn Grk “If anyone keeps.”
[8:52] 8 tn Grk “will never taste.” Here the Greek verb does not mean “sample a small amount” (as a typical English reader might infer from the word “taste”), but “experience something cognitively or emotionally; come to know something” (cf. BDAG 195 s.v. γεύομαι 2).
[8:52] 9 tn Grk “he will never taste of death forever.” The Greek negative here is emphatic.
[8:55] 10 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “Yet” to indicate the contrast present in the context.
[8:55] 11 tn Grk “If I say, ‘I do not know him.’”
[14:21] 20 tn Grk “obeys them, that one is the one who loves me.”
[14:21] 21 tn Grk “And the one.” Here the conjunction καί (kai) has not been translated to improve the English style.
[14:21] 22 tn Or “will disclose.”
[14:23] 28 tn Grk “answered and said to him.”
[14:23] 30 tn Grk “we will come to him and will make our dwelling place with him.” The context here is individual rather than corporate indwelling, so the masculine singular pronoun has been retained throughout v. 23. It is important to note, however, that the pronoun is used generically here and refers equally to men, women, and children.
[14:24] 37 tn Or “does not keep.”
[14:24] 38 tn Or “the message.”
[17:6] 46 tn Or “made known,” “disclosed.”
[17:6] 47 tn Here “men” is retained as a translation for ἀνθρώποις (anqrwpoi") rather than the more generic “people” because in context it specifically refers to the eleven men Jesus had chosen as apostles (Judas had already departed, John 13:30). If one understands the referent here to be the broader group of Jesus’ followers that included both men and women, a translation like “to the people” should be used here instead.
[17:6] 48 tn Grk “Yours they were.”
[17:11] 55 tn Grk And I.” The conjunction καί (kai, “and”) has not been translated here in keeping with the tendency of contemporary English style to use shorter sentences.
[17:11] 56 tn The context indicates that this should be translated as an adversative or contrastive conjunction.
[17:11] 57 tn Or “protect them”; Grk “keep them.”
[17:11] 58 tn Or “by your name.”
[17:11] 59 tn The second repetition of “one” is implied, and is supplied here for clarity.
[17:12] 64 tn Or “I protected them”; Grk “I kept them.”
[17:12] 65 tn Grk “and guarded them.”
[17:12] 66 tn Or “by your name.”
[17:12] 67 tn Grk And not one.” The conjunction καί (kai, “and”) has not been translated here in keeping with the tendency of contemporary English style to use shorter sentences.
[17:12] 68 tn Grk “the son of destruction” (a Semitic idiom for one appointed for destruction; here it is a reference to Judas).
[17:12] 69 sn A possible allusion to Ps 41:9 or Prov 24:22 LXX. The exact passage is not specified here, but in John 13:18, Ps 41:9 is explicitly quoted by Jesus with reference to the traitor, suggesting that this is the passage to which Jesus refers here. The previous mention of Ps 41:9 in John 13:18 probably explains why the author felt no need for an explanatory parenthetical note here. It is also possible that the passage referred to here is Prov 24:22 LXX, where in the Greek text the phrase “son of destruction” appears.
