Yohanes 4:21

4:21 Jesus said to her, “Believe me, woman, ¹  a time ²  is coming when you will worship ³  the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

Yohanes 7:31

7:31 Yet many of the crowd ⁴  believed in him and said, “Whenever the Christ ⁵  comes, he won’t perform more miraculous signs than this man did, will he?” ⁶ 

Yohanes 7:41-42

7:41 Others said, “This is the Christ!” ⁷  But still others said, “No, ⁸  for the Christ doesn’t come from Galilee, does he? ⁹  7:42 Don’t the scriptures say that the Christ is a descendant ¹⁰  of David ¹¹  and comes from Bethlehem, ¹²  the village where David lived?” ¹³ 

[4:21]  ¹ sn Woman was a polite form of address (see BDAG 208-9 s.v. γυνή 1), similar to “Madam” or “Ma’am” used in English in different regions.

[4:21]  ² tn Grk “an hour.”

[4:21]  ³ tn The verb is plural.

[7:31]  ⁴ tn Or “The common people” (as opposed to the religious authorities).

[7:31]  ⁵ tn Or “the Messiah” (Both Greek “Christ” and Hebrew and Aramaic “Messiah” mean “one who has been anointed”).

[7:31]  sn See the note on Christ in 1:20.

[7:31]  ⁶ tn Questions prefaced with μή (mh) in Greek anticipate a negative answer. This can sometimes be indicated by using a “tag” at the end in English (here it is “will he?”).

[7:41]  ⁷ tn Or “the Messiah” (Both Greek “Christ” and Hebrew and Aramaic “Messiah” mean “one who has been anointed”).

[7:41]  sn See the note on Christ in 1:20.

[7:41]  ⁸ tn An initial negative reply (“No”) is suggested by the causal or explanatory γάρ (gar) which begins the clause.

[7:41]  ⁹ tn Questions prefaced with μή (mh) in Greek anticipate a negative answer. This can sometimes be indicated by using a “tag” at the end in English (here the tag is “does he?”).

[7:42]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “is from the seed” (an idiom for human descent).

[7:42]  ¹¹ sn An allusion to Ps 89:4.

[7:42]  ¹² sn An allusion to Mic 5:2.

[7:42]  map For location see Map5 B1; Map7 E2; Map8 E2; Map10 B4.

[7:42]  ¹³ tn Grk “the village where David was.”