[8:29] 1 tn That is, “he has not abandoned me.”
[8:51] 2 tn Grk “Truly, truly, I say to you.”
[8:51] 3 tn Grk “If anyone keeps.”
[8:51] 5 tn Grk “he will never see death forever.” The Greek negative here is emphatic.
[8:51] sn Those who keep Jesus’ words will not see death because they have already passed from death to life (cf. 5:24). In Johannine theology eternal life begins in the present rather than in the world to come.