John 9:6

9:6 Having said this, ¹  he spat on the ground and made some mud ²  with the saliva. He ³  smeared the mud on the blind man’s ⁴  eyes

John 10:33

10:33 The Jewish leaders ⁵  replied, ⁶  “We are not going to stone you for a good deed ⁷  but for blasphemy, ⁸  because ⁹  you, a man, are claiming to be God.” ¹⁰ 

John 10:36

10:36 do you say about the one whom the Father set apart ¹¹  and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?

John 12:38

12:38 so that the word ¹²  of Isaiah the prophet would be fulfilled. He said, ¹³  “Lord, who has believed our message, and to whom has the arm of the Lord ¹⁴  been revealed?” ¹⁵ 

[9:6]  ¹ tn Grk “said these things.”

[9:6]  ² tn Or “clay” (moistened earth of a clay-like consistency). The textual variant preserved in the Syriac text of Ephraem’s commentary on the Diatessaron (“he made eyes from his clay”) probably arose from the interpretation given by Irenaeus in Against Heresies: “that which the Artificer, the Word, had omitted to form in the womb, he then supplied in public.” This involves taking the clay as an allusion to Gen 2:7, which is very unlikely.

[9:6]  ³ tn Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, the conjunction καί (kai) was replaced by a third person pronoun and a new sentence started here in the translation.

[9:6]  ⁴ tn Grk “on his.”

[10:33]  ⁵ tn Or “the Jewish authorities”; Grk “the Jews.” Here again the phrase refers to the Jewish leaders. See the notes on the phrase “Jewish people” in v. 19 and “Jewish leaders” in vv. 24, 31.

[10:33]  ⁶ tn Grk “answered him.”

[10:33]  ⁷ tn Or “good work.”

[10:33]  ⁸ sn This is the first time the official charge of blasphemy is voiced openly in the Fourth Gospel (although it was implicit in John 8:59).

[10:33]  ⁹ tn Grk “and because.”

[10:33]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “you, a man, make yourself to be God.”

[10:36]  ⁹ tn Or “dedicated.”

[12:38]  ¹³ tn Or “message.”

[12:38]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “who said.”

[12:38]  ¹⁵ tn “The arm of the Lord” is an idiom for “God’s great power” (as exemplified through Jesus’ miraculous signs). This response of unbelief is interpreted by the author as a fulfillment of the prophetic words of Isaiah (Isa 53:1). The phrase ὁ βραχίων κυρίου (Jo braciwn kuriou) is a figurative reference to God’s activity and power which has been revealed in the sign-miracles which Jesus has performed (compare the previous verse).

[12:38]  ¹⁶ sn A quotation from Isa 53:1.