Yohanes 4:45

4:45 So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him because they had seen all the things he had done in Jerusalem ¹  at the feast ²  (for they themselves had gone to the feast). ³ 

Yohanes 5:43

5:43 I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not accept ⁴  me. If someone else comes in his own name, you will accept ⁵  him.

Yohanes 10:38

10:38 But if I do them, even if you do not believe me, believe the deeds, ⁶  so that you may come to know ⁷  and understand that I am in the Father and the Father is in me.”

Yohanes 15:5

15:5 “I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains ⁸  in me – and I in him – bears ⁹  much fruit, ¹⁰  because apart from me you can accomplish ¹¹  nothing.

Yohanes 15:10

15:10 If you obey ¹²  my commandments, you will remain ¹³  in my love, just as I have obeyed ¹⁴  my Father’s commandments and remain ¹⁵  in his love.

Yohanes 16:23

16:23 At that time ¹⁶  you will ask me nothing. I tell you the solemn truth, ¹⁷  whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you. ¹⁸ 

[4:45]  ¹ sn All the things he had done in Jerusalem probably refers to the signs mentioned in John 2:23.

[4:45]  map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[4:45]  ² sn See John 2:23-25.

[4:45]  ³ sn John 4:44-45. The last part of v. 45 is a parenthetical note by the author. The major problem in these verses concerns the contradiction between the proverb stated by Jesus in v. 44 and the reception of the Galileans in v. 45. Origen solved the problem by referring his own country to Judea (which Jesus had just left) and not Galilee. But this runs counter to the thrust of John’s Gospel, which takes pains to identify Jesus with Galilee (cf. 1:46) and does not even mention his Judean birth. R. E. Brown typifies the contemporary approach: He regards v. 44 as an addition by a later redactor who wanted to emphasize Jesus’ unsatisfactory reception in Galilee. Neither expedient is necessary, though, if honor is understood in its sense of attributing true worth to someone. The Galileans did welcome him, but their welcome was to prove a superficial response based on what they had seen him do at the feast. There is no indication that the signs they saw brought them to place their faith in Jesus any more than Nicodemus did on the basis of the signs. But a superficial welcome based on enthusiasm for miracles is no real honor at all.

[5:43]  ⁴ tn Or “you do not receive.”

[5:43]  ⁵ tn Or “you will receive.”

[10:38]  ⁶ tn Or “works.”

[10:38]  sn Jesus says that in the final analysis, the deeds he did should indicate whether he was truly from the Father. If the authorities could not believe in him, it would be better to believe in the deeds he did than not to believe at all.

[10:38]  ⁷ tn Or “so that you may learn.”

[15:5]  ⁸ tn Or “resides.”

[15:5]  ⁹ tn Or “yields.”

[15:5]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “in him, this one bears much fruit.” The pronoun “this one” has been omitted from the translation because it is redundant according to contemporary English style.

[15:5]  sn Many interpret the imagery of fruit here and in 15:2, 4 in terms of good deeds or character qualities, relating it to passages elsewhere in the NT like Matt 3:8 and 7:20, Rom 6:22, Gal 5:22, etc. This is not necessarily inaccurate, but one must remember that for John, to have life at all is to bear fruit, while one who does not bear fruit shows that he does not have the life (once again, conduct is the clue to paternity, as in John 8:41; compare also 1 John 4:20).

[15:5]  ¹¹ tn Or “do.”

[15:10]  ¹² tn Or “keep.”

[15:10]  ¹³ tn Or “reside.”

[15:10]  ¹⁴ tn Or “kept.”

[15:10]  ¹⁵ tn Or “reside.”

[16:23]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “And in that day.”

[16:23]  ¹⁷ tn Grk “Truly, truly, I say to you.”

[16:23]  ¹⁸ sn This statement is also found in John 15:16.