John 8:55

8:55 Yet ¹  you do not know him, but I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, ²  I would be a liar like you. But I do know him, and I obey ³  his teaching. ⁴ 

John 9:21

9:21 But we do not know how he is now able to see, nor do we know who caused him to see. ⁵  Ask him, he is a mature adult. ⁶  He will speak for himself.”

John 10:12

10:12 The hired hand, ⁷  who is not a shepherd and does not own sheep, sees the wolf coming and abandons ⁸  the sheep and runs away. ⁹  So the wolf attacks ¹⁰  the sheep and scatters them.

John 17:14

17:14 I have given them your word, ¹¹  and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, ¹²  just as I do not belong to the world. ¹³ 

[8:55]  ¹ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “Yet” to indicate the contrast present in the context.

[8:55]  ² tn Grk “If I say, ‘I do not know him.’”

[8:55]  ³ tn Grk “I keep.”

[8:55]  ⁴ tn Grk “his word.”

[9:21]  ⁵ tn Grk “who opened his eyes” (an idiom referring to restoration of sight).

[9:21]  ⁶ tn Or “he is of age.”

[10:12]  ⁹ sn Jesus contrasts the behavior of the shepherd with that of the hired hand. This is a worker who is simply paid to do a job; he has no other interest in the sheep and is certainly not about to risk his life for them. When they are threatened, he simply runs away.

[10:12]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “leaves.”

[10:12]  ¹¹ tn Or “flees.”

[10:12]  ¹² tn Or “seizes.” The more traditional rendering, “snatches,” has the idea of seizing something by force and carrying it off, which is certainly possible here. However, in the sequence in John 10:12, this action precedes the scattering of the flock of sheep, so “attacks” is preferable.

[17:14]  ¹³ tn Or “your message.”

[17:14]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “because they are not of the world.”

[17:14]  ¹⁵ tn Grk “just as I am not of the world.”